Three things to share today:
1. December 21st layout for my "25 Days Until Christmas" album.
Do you have a family get-together during the holidays with extended family?
2. I'm planning on doing the 365 day photo challenge in 2008.
I'm always complaining that I don't have any photos. Well, this should fix that. The assignment is to take one photo every day for a year.
From Photojojo:
People
will often say that their whole lives flashed before their eyes after
they experienced a traumatic event. Perhaps it’s a bit morbid, but we
think that sounds pretty incredible. When Taylor McKnight started taking a photo a day on January 1st,
2004, he never imagined the project would not only serve as a way to
remember a year, but also help him understand what was important to him
in his life. Whether it was his relationships, his career, or his fashion sense,
recording a photo a day for a whole year left him with a rich visual
history of his life. And it made him a better photographer to boot! Now that he’s in the middle of doing it for a second time, we asked
Taylor to write about it for us. Read on for our tutorial on how and
why to create your own daily photographic history. Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it: Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365: There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to
take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting
enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made. Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look
around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the
inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the
years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop. N.B. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and
asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!Why do it?
Tips on How to Do It
I'm excited about this project! I'm going to do it a little bit differently then is suggested. I plan to print my photo each day and I've got an album ready and waiting with a tiny bit of scratch space to write any comments I want to. I also plan to post most of my photos to an album on this blog. I just don't have the brain power to run a separate photo blog, plus who knows, I may not want to share every single photo.
Yes, everywhere.
Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and
school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your
phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny
tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the
time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.
You can install blog
software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an
entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing
site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.
Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic
experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate
for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a
photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a
photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve
changed, too.
Use your blog entry, or your
photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph.
How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of
that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives
friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo
you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.
This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.
Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so
you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day
or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy
to post. It’ll make all the difference.
