My resolution is to be still going on about winning a ribbon this time next year. One, just one, but one I will never let the world forget MHHHHUUUWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
I made a decision about a month ago to spend at least an hour a day on photography- be it reading a book, setting up and doing a photo session, or learning how to do certain things in Photoshop (which I consider an integral part of digital photography). Some days I don't get anything done, other days I spend 6 hours working on a project. I suppose it all evens out :-)
With any luck my work is starting to reflect my effort. I update my photography website and my personal website almost weekly, and the folks that I show the sites to seem to be impressed. Either that or just annoyed by all the emails I send them telling them I've updated my sites :D
1) Learning to compose better
2) Learning to see photograph opportunities (not the "I want to take a snap of that situation", no more like, "that tree has an interesting texture, those lines make a really interesting composition, etc")
3) That means: get out more with the camera (and combine that with cycling, motorcycle riding -or was that road racing-, etc, etc)
4) Get a small 2mp carry everywhere manual camera
5) Get some good lenses and a dSLR body and learn how to use it
For 2004 I already agreed to again shoot for the local history society and their yearbook (events, people, historic sites and objects. 2003 was 8 photos published, for 2004 I already have been asked for 5, 4 are in the pipeline) and to scan and edit their photos and negatives. Last year I only had to deliver, this year I will also edit them (including to all the specs required by the publisher).
I would also like to get more photos in hardcover books (2003= 1 book app 10 photos, one on the front), newspapers (2 papers, 2 photos each) and one local magazine (one edition, three photos). I enjoyed the photojournalistic aspect of this (grab your camera, we want a photo of this!). But I want to be able to give better quality, and to shoot faster -less AF & shutter lag, brighter viewfinder- with more dof control for portraits, hence the dSLR.
my photography resolution is to give up on digital photography... its too plastic.. i would much rather be in a darkroom with the chemicals and the low lights.. to take shorter rolls and more of them.. to make large prints. I keep hearing about people rediscovering photography with digital cameras... i eventually hope to do the opposite. digital photography just doesn't rub me the right way.
my photography resolution is to give up on digital photography... its too plastic.. i would much rather be in a darkroom with the chemicals and the low lights.. to take shorter rolls and more of them.. to make large prints. I keep hearing about people rediscovering photography with digital cameras... i eventually hope to do the opposite. digital photography just doesn't rub me the right way.
Continue my new Dpc life: Submitting to just a few challenges - just the challenges that I find interesting and where I get an idea right from the start. Stop submitting just for the sake of submitting.
i'm here because i neither have the resources to operate a darkroom, nor do i have a camera. i don't really have anything against digital photography beyond how easy it is to manipulate a shot into being something its not. i think many would agree with me.. don't get me wrong, i'm also here because i enjoy photography.. i would just prefer.... less digital, more analog..
my resolution is to stop dreaming about Miah's profile picture.
Originally posted by Miah:
i'm here because i neither have the resources to operate a darkroom, nor do i have a camera. i don't really have anything against digital photography beyond how easy it is to manipulate a shot into being something its not. i think many would agree with me.. don't get me wrong, i'm also here because i enjoy photography.. i would just prefer.... less digital, more analog..
To learn everything about Photoshop just in case the current rule set remains.
On a more serious note, I will probably work on studio shots. I currently have no studio, nor do I have any equipment to take studio shots with. It would be nice to have something so that I can take some shots no matter what the weather and get good results.
I may also make a third resolution to take more pictures that are simply very good-looking and do not meet challenges -- as they seemed to actually score quite well. Actually that's a lie, as I don't think that will ever pander to the tastes of the people on DPC -- I would rather simply submit pictures that I like and see what people think of them.
In fact scratched the rest, my New Year's photo resolution is to do exactly what I'm doing at the moment -- find a challenge that I like, take a picture for it, and see what people think of the end result. If that doesn't work then so be it, if it does then yipee.
I will spend the entire year working on areas of photography where I am very weak... namely people photos. I will complete the two year long projects that I have formulated. In order to accomplish these, I will avoid submitting to challenges for the duration of 2004. :)
