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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.

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Thursday 10 November 2011

Thursday 10th November 2011

I made it back up to the colliery tonight (see yesterday), but with a friend so that I wouldn't get scared off by any hissing noises (there was still much hissing, but I realised it was probably owls). This photo represents various things I've been working on, one being the colliery (see previous photos here and here), and one being a silhouette of a person (which I keep trying down a cave, and failing on). This is one shot, no HDR, just with a bit of 'dodging' in photoshop. I think it looks a little un-real, which I really like about it.


20mm, 30s, f/10, ISO 400
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2 comments:

  1. Victim of Mathematics16 November 2011 at 14:35

    What's dodging?

    It almost looks like the background is a painting, or projected rather than an actual colliery. I like this a lot.

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  2. Sarah Clough16 November 2011 at 15:09

    Dodging is basically selectively lightening parts of the image, burning is darkening them. It's a darkroom technique, done from the negative. To make part of an image lighter you'd need to allow less light through the negative (as on the negative the light areas are dark), so you'd hold some opaque material inbetween the negative and the print (dodge). To darken part of an image you'd need to let more light through the negative do a second exposure with opaque material under all the parts of the image you didn't want affected (burn). In photoshop you just choose various settings and wave your mouse around.

    That background painting is the same impression I got. This is one of my favourite images, I like a lot of others but some were quite easy to take so it feels a bit like cheating. This one I thought about a lot.

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