purplemattfish
Why So Serious? - Day 365 of Project 365
16/08/09
What can I say... it's over... !
For the last 365 days I have taken a photo a day. The last 12 months have shot by alarmingly quickly. There were times when I wondered what I'd got myself into, and the odd occasion where I really couldn't be arsed taking a shot. But on the the whole it's been an amazing experience, and I would highly recommend anyone thinking of giving it a go to "just do it" ;)
I've quite heavily processed this shot, but this is almost exactly how I wanted it to look when I came up with the idea. I wanted an almost cartoon look to it.
People sometimes ask me how long it takes to get my 365... it depends some are 10 mins... this was a bit longer I started at 11pm and I'm typing this at 4am.... but I'm happy, plus I've processed 4 shots and typed all this blurb and had a shower to clean all this bloody make-up off (that took me a good half hour!).
There's also my back-up shot here, and a make-up progress shot here
For the interested here is my summary of the year. At the beginning of August last year I had this crazy idea to do a 365 photo project. I also really wanted to buy a new camera and in order to justify that purchase I needed a good reason to buy it... the last 12 months of photos was that reason. I had 2 goals and 1 objective, the first rule was to take all my photos with my 5D (which I technically failed as I've used my film cameras for a small number of shots) and the second was not to miss a day... and as there are 365 shots in the set I consider that to have been a success ;) The objective was "to take better photos", I think the best test of that will be in a couple of weeks when I friend of mine gets married. Myself and another 365'er will be shooting the wedding!
Over the last 12 months:
I've taken 24,134 shots, of which I kept 3,626... !
I found a compelling love for the 50mm focal length.
I became a big fan of off camera flash use (I blame that strobist bloke)
I met lots of nice people though Flickr.
And finally, a big thank-you to everybody who has taken the time to look at or comment on my photos as it's been a source of inspiration for me over the last 12 months!
now what to do next .... Year 2? well I'm going to do a week of 50mm and see where that gets me ;)
Lightroom: export 2 shots one exposed for the card the second exposed for the background
Photoshop: where do I start... lots, export the 2 shots in split into 3 layers the card the hand and me in the background, change the hue on the hand and me, tweak the card for maximum readability! flatten, sharpen, save to JPG
Strobist: 580EXII @ 1/128 just behind the camera fitted with a snoot, vivtar 215 @ fill power into softbox to camera right. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so have a look at the setup shot
Why So Serious? - Day 365 of Project 365
16/08/09
What can I say... it's over... !
For the last 365 days I have taken a photo a day. The last 12 months have shot by alarmingly quickly. There were times when I wondered what I'd got myself into, and the odd occasion where I really couldn't be arsed taking a shot. But on the the whole it's been an amazing experience, and I would highly recommend anyone thinking of giving it a go to "just do it" ;)
I've quite heavily processed this shot, but this is almost exactly how I wanted it to look when I came up with the idea. I wanted an almost cartoon look to it.
People sometimes ask me how long it takes to get my 365... it depends some are 10 mins... this was a bit longer I started at 11pm and I'm typing this at 4am.... but I'm happy, plus I've processed 4 shots and typed all this blurb and had a shower to clean all this bloody make-up off (that took me a good half hour!).
There's also my back-up shot here, and a make-up progress shot here
For the interested here is my summary of the year. At the beginning of August last year I had this crazy idea to do a 365 photo project. I also really wanted to buy a new camera and in order to justify that purchase I needed a good reason to buy it... the last 12 months of photos was that reason. I had 2 goals and 1 objective, the first rule was to take all my photos with my 5D (which I technically failed as I've used my film cameras for a small number of shots) and the second was not to miss a day... and as there are 365 shots in the set I consider that to have been a success ;) The objective was "to take better photos", I think the best test of that will be in a couple of weeks when I friend of mine gets married. Myself and another 365'er will be shooting the wedding!
Over the last 12 months:
I've taken 24,134 shots, of which I kept 3,626... !
I found a compelling love for the 50mm focal length.
I became a big fan of off camera flash use (I blame that strobist bloke)
I met lots of nice people though Flickr.
And finally, a big thank-you to everybody who has taken the time to look at or comment on my photos as it's been a source of inspiration for me over the last 12 months!
now what to do next .... Year 2? well I'm going to do a week of 50mm and see where that gets me ;)
Lightroom: export 2 shots one exposed for the card the second exposed for the background
Photoshop: where do I start... lots, export the 2 shots in split into 3 layers the card the hand and me in the background, change the hue on the hand and me, tweak the card for maximum readability! flatten, sharpen, save to JPG
Strobist: 580EXII @ 1/128 just behind the camera fitted with a snoot, vivtar 215 @ fill power into softbox to camera right. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so have a look at the setup shot