365 photo projects

Hello all, and happy new year!

As part of a general resolution to spend more time being creative, I've decided to do a 365 photo project (i.e. taking at least one photo every day) and share the results on my shiny new web site (shameless plug: smxc.co.uk).

Anyone else on here attempting something similar or done it before? If so do you have any advice?

Or if you're just starting one, maybe we should form a support group...

Just finished mine. Advice, accept that there will be days when you cant be arsed!

My advice from a previous attempt is to define at the outset what you hope to get out of the process. I started one last year in the hope that it would encourage me to look more deeply at things and find a new angle to them that I hadn't seen before.

The problem, as bettyswolloks says above, is there end up being days where you end up taking a snapshot of something at 23:58 just to get get within the day's boundaries. What this meant for me was that rather than my camerawork getting better I was becoming satisfied with less when uploading a photo as either the image had been taken in haste or there hadn't been an opportunity to do any postprocessing on it; far from improving my photography, the process set me back a bit.

If you're aware of this as a potential problem at the outset you can probably put some coping mechanisms in place before they're needed. I wasn't and I didn't.

You might be able to get some inspiration by looking at BlipFoto; the site is geared toward a photo-per-day approach so provides relevant navigation tools such as 'taken on this day' calendars.

Cheers,
Paul

PS. Good luck - here's wishing you 364* fantastic images!

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* You're allowed a drunken blur on your birthday.

Thanks chaps. My hope is that taking pictures of the kids every day won't become a chore, so with the "daily" part covered, I can possibly get some more time to actually plan at least one non-family picture per week for the web site. Or I'll just set a recurring alarm for 23:58

My own fear is that 'having' to use my camera every day would make my hobby a chore - maybe that's just me though

My advice would be to stop the moment it becomes a (if it does) as a bloke I work with completed one of these 2 years ago and now rarely uses his camera - it just seemed to put him off

It's a great idea, I attempted one last year, it was a different image of this wee figure I found, he was in different situations every day, which did limit me in a way.

I only made it to the beginning of July.

I was like bettyswollocks above with he old 5 to midnight panic a few times. I once got up out of bed in a panic, to get one done, then back to bed to get up at half 5. Working 12 hour shifts and 4 or 5 in a row gets in the way too!

I did contemplate doing the same again, but this time get the whole 365... but for this year I'm going to just get a favourite from each week, so here starts my 52 project. Ease myself into it.

All the best with yours though mandrake.

Cheers

Never done it but there was a talk at my club a while back... Some of his advice was:

Join a 356 flickr group that you can gain inspiration from and get support... Support and encourage 3 other photographers who are also 365ing with the same start date as you...

Good luck...

Seen people doing them on flickr and yes they do get a great deal of encouragement from other members of the group taking part.

I remember i once done one on facebook naming the album "photo a day " its always interesting to sometimes look over the album and wonder why i haven't deleted it yet