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Photo of The Day - December 2018
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Great idea Molly. I like the concept and am looking forward to enjoying your efforts.I got really behind in December with editing everyday, so I have some work to do to catch up my final P365 collection. But in the meantime, I figured I'd get started on practicing for my P52 of diptychs for 2019. I know the rules are one photo per day, so if you guys would rather I don't post them as diptychs, let me know, and I will separate them to different days. The challenge for me is to shoot one subject in two ways that coordinate. But I don't want to upset the apple cart!(Plus it won't be a diptych every single day, just once a week.)
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Beautiful capture gasworks with great control of the tones.
Love seeing these shots of "Mandy" someoldguy. I've been tempted to drive the 8 hrs south to get shots for myself and still may do it after the holidays. What a beautiful bird!
Outstanding image Mark...I love the monochromatic look.
No photo - just to wish everyone on this forum a happy Hogmanay and prosperous New Year! Keep up the good photography work.
A bit of a fixer-upper I found in the middle of some grape growing fields. A fresh coat of paint, some new curtains & she'll be gorgeous again! This is where I found the shaft of light that I shared the other day.
Big gulp - D700 with Nikon Nikkor 70-200 2.8 FL E VR lens. This lens blows my mind every time I use it, it's so incredibly fast to to focus. My favorite lens by far.
365/365 | I can't believe I actually made it through this project and took a photo every single day for an entire year. Although it took a while to find rhythym, and there were some days I scrambled just to take a photo with my phone so I could say I took a photo, I am so happy that I took this project on for 2018. I learned a lot about myself and about photography. I pushed past some limits and tried some new things.
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For 2019 I will be embarking upon a P52 instead, although still hope to shoot mostly daily. I am looking forward to a bit of breathing space and mindfulness in my photography and process.
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Goodbye 2018, and hello 2019.
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For 2019 I will be embarking upon a P52 instead, although still hope to shoot mostly daily. I am looking forward to a bit of breathing space and mindfulness in my photography and process.
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Goodbye 2018, and hello 2019.
Well we’ve enjoyed your pictures. Looking forward to seeing the 2019 ones!
You're so sweet. Thank you. May 2019 be a great year for you too.
If I take a photo every month, it will be an improvement on this one!You're so sweet. Thank you. May 2019 be a great year for you too.
Ever since my attempt back in 2009 at a POTD and my failure to complete the project, I have taken a different approach to photography, making it much more casual, more experimental and actually more fun and spontaneous for me, as the discipline of a 365/POTD was something which simply did not work for me. I would hesitate to even try a 52-week project.
Congratulations, Molly, on a job well done! Your images throughout the year have been really lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing the images in the new project!
Congratulations, Molly, on a job well done! Your images throughout the year have been really lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing the images in the new project!
Monthly? Quarterly? Annually?
I find the biggest challenge is motivating myself to get out (knowing I’m leaving Mrs AFB home alone) and finding new interesting locations.
No, I am better off not setting any time frames or restrictions and simply enjoying taking and sharing pictures when the mood strikes me. Sometimes I'll see something when out-and-about and so whip out the iPhone and snap off a couple of shots. Other times I might suddenly have an idea about something I want to try and may spend an hour or more working with a subject, a much more intentional and deliberate sort of approach. In good weather, taking the camera with me when going on a stroll around the lake can often present interesting photo ops or there have been times when I've looked out the sliding glass door and have seen something which has prompted me to grab the camera and run out to the deck..... (I am lucky that I live on a small lake with live subjects frequently swimming around right in front of my eyes and camera lens!) I will say that these days I am finding post-processing and image editing much less tedious than it was back in 2009 and that has enhanced my enjoyment, too, along with encouraging me to experiment more. Nonetheless I remain skittish at the idea of embarking on another more-or-less formal project as now that I have finally re-ignited my joy in taking photos I don't want to risk losing that again.
AFB: you have a macro lens, right? Why not spend some time just looking around your house and seeing what might be interesting to shoot, and have a play with that? Try shooting something that doesn't look like what it actually is (creating an abstract) or try flirting with color or seeing what kind of results you might get by shooting only part of an object or subject..... We are surrounded by ordinary things that we take for granted which actually can be quite fascinating photographic subjects when a macro lens is pointed at them.....
Or do as I've done recently and download an app on the iPhone which allows one to shoot as though with a slow shutter speed......this allows for all kinds of additional flexibility in approach and for experimentation such as moving the iPhone around or up-and-down to create some rather interesting and surprising results. This isn't going to be "realistic" nor is it something which could be considered a candidate for hanging on the wall or in a gallery, it's not "fine art" per se, but it sure is fun!
AFB: you have a macro lens, right? Why not spend some time just looking around your house and seeing what might be interesting to shoot, and have a play with that? Try shooting something that doesn't look like what it actually is (creating an abstract) or try flirting with color or seeing what kind of results you might get by shooting only part of an object or subject..... We are surrounded by ordinary things that we take for granted which actually can be quite fascinating photographic subjects when a macro lens is pointed at them.....
Or do as I've done recently and download an app on the iPhone which allows one to shoot as though with a slow shutter speed......this allows for all kinds of additional flexibility in approach and for experimentation such as moving the iPhone around or up-and-down to create some rather interesting and surprising results. This isn't going to be "realistic" nor is it something which could be considered a candidate for hanging on the wall or in a gallery, it's not "fine art" per se, but it sure is fun!
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I do and your right, I should. I just need to do get my camera out and do it.
I’ll shoot something tomorrow for sure. Going to try and use my gear more next year.
I’ll make that my resolution for the New Year!
An example of the sort of experimentation I was talking about..... Shot with iPhone using the Slow Shutter app, then processed in Luminar 2018:
No, I am better off not setting any time frames or restrictions and simply enjoying taking and sharing pictures when the mood strikes me. Sometimes I'll see something when out-and-about and so whip out the iPhone and snap off a couple of shots. Other times I might suddenly have an idea about something I want to try and may spend an hour or more working with a subject, a much more intentional and deliberate sort of approach. In good weather, taking the camera with me when going on a stroll around the lake can often present interesting photo ops or there have been times when I've looked out the sliding glass door and have seen something which has prompted me to grab the camera and run out to the deck..... (I am lucky that I live on a small lake with live subjects frequently swimming around right in front of my eyes and camera lens!) I will say that these days I am finding post-processing and image editing much less tedious than it was back in 2009 and that has enhanced my enjoyment, too, along with encouraging me to experiment more. Nonetheless I remain skittish at the idea of embarking on another more-or-less formal project as now that I have finally re-ignited my joy in taking photos I don't want to risk losing that again.
AFB: you have a macro lens, right? Why not spend some time just looking around your house and seeing what might be interesting to shoot, and have a play with that? Try shooting something that doesn't look like what it actually is (creating an abstract) or try flirting with color or seeing what kind of results you might get by shooting only part of an object or subject..... We are surrounded by ordinary things that we take for granted which actually can be quite fascinating photographic subjects when a macro lens is pointed at them.....
Or do as I've done recently and download an app on the iPhone which allows one to shoot as though with a slow shutter speed......this allows for all kinds of additional flexibility in approach and for experimentation such as moving the iPhone around or up-and-down to create some rather interesting and surprising results. This isn't going to be "realistic" nor is it something which could be considered a candidate for hanging on the wall or in a gallery, it's not "fine art" per se, but it sure is fun!
Most of my images this year were macros around the house. It helps that I like to garden, but now I find that I will buy more interesting plants in the spring so I have more subjects throughout the year. But there are lots of opportunities for macro inside the house as well. I just like flowers.
DSCF0639-2 by Alex, on Flickr
How I'm spending New Year's Eve.
Hope y'all had a great 2018, and I hope 2019 brings you even more joy!
I KNOW my house has many fewer flowers or plants, either inside or out, than Molly's! In the spring when walking around the neighborhood I can find some flowers to shoot and we have some landscaping on the grounds here, but it is rather limited in scope. My favorite time is when the Tulip Magnolias start to blossom, as they are wonderful to capture in a photographic image. Obviously in wintertime in this area flowers are in short supply anywhere unless one buys them at a store with the specific intention of using them as a potential subject, and in the long-ago past (during that incomplete POTD) I have done that, along with purchasing pieces of fruit or vegetables that I never ate, just photographed.......
The point here is that there are all kinds of subjects just sitting around anyone's house or inside a local shop ready for purchase, from simple kitchen utensils to bathroom accessories to decorative items on the walls or on shelves to fruits and vegetables or other items we customarily ingest..... One friend on another forum likes to take photos of wine bottles and food or the utensils used in preparing that food.
Potential photographs are everywhere! We just need to learn and practice being able to see them and then shoot them.......
In the spring when walking around the neighborhood I can find some flowers to shoot and we have some landscaping on the grounds here, but it is rather limited in scope. My favorite time is when the Tulip Magnolias start to blossom, as they are wonderful to capture in a photographic image. Obviously in wintertime in this area flowers are in short supply anywhere unless one buys them at a store with the specific intention of using them as a potential subject, and in the long-ago past (during that incomplete POTD) I have done that, along with purchasing pieces of fruit or vegetables that I never ate, just photographed.......The point here is that there are all kinds of subjects just sitting around anyone's house or inside a local shop ready for purchase, from simple kitchen utensils to bathroom accessories to decorative items on the walls or on shelves to fruits and vegetables or other items we customarily ingest..... One friend on another forum likes to take photos of wine bottles and food or the utensils used in preparing that food.
Potential photographs are everywhere! We just need to learn and practice being able to see them and then shoot them.......