This year I will be mostly... taking a photo every day, and posting it up here for you all to see and comment on if you feel inclined (please do). It's not an original idea, I stole it off a friend and many other people are doing the same as I speak, but I thought it seemed like a great idea to get used to my new toy, my Canon Eos 500D with Tamron 18-250mm Macro lens - my first digital SLR.
A lot of sites online talk about 'project 365' where people are encouraged to take a photo every day, but while their take on it is to create a personal history of the photographer, I wanted to make it a bit more abstract, more about the world around me. So this isn't meant to be a photo diary of my life, I am striving for each photo to be 'good' because of its artistic and technical merit, not because it's personal to me. Having said that personal subject matter will inevitably creep in as inspiration, but that's allowed, the book I'm reading claim that "every picture we take is merely a self-portrait of our inner psyche"!
I had a think of a couple of ideas for themes and settled on 'moods'. Then I was hit by indecision as to what to do if I take a photo I like and want to upload as my daily snap, but it doesn't fit the theme. So I have decided that the theme is just for inspiration rather than as a criteria, the photos can be of anything. That way I get the most flexibility of what to upload, and still have a muse.
While I'll be taking photos every day, I'll only upload them every few days, so keep checking back. I'm not anticipating the photos to be groundbreaking (at least not to start with!), the whole point is to improve so I won't be great initially. But I'll still try my best which will hopefully keep it interesting. Please feel free to add whatever comments you like (hopefully constructive!) as that will help me as much as the process of actually taking a photo a day, I will endeavour to reply to them all.
Some friends came over for dinner yesterday evening and bought me some lovely flowers, so once they'd gone I couldn't resist snapping dozens of photos of them, and more this morning!
250mm, 0.5 (auto from aperture priority), f/6.3, ISO 1600 (auto)
The colours work brilliantly on this. Strangely, I think if you'd shot this a base ISO (100), this shot wouldn't work as well: the noise adds an 'aged' texture that compliments the emotional feel suggested by the faded petal edges - if that makes any sense!?
they look better in the pic than in real life!
ReplyDeleteNot at all, they're gorgeous! I love getting flowers :)
ReplyDeleteThe colours work brilliantly on this.
ReplyDeleteStrangely, I think if you'd shot this a base ISO (100), this shot wouldn't work as well: the noise adds an 'aged' texture that compliments the emotional feel suggested by the faded petal edges - if that makes any sense!?
I couldn't the damn thing in focus and wasn't sure if it was iso or camera shake (no tripod back then). Photoshop drew it back enough.
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