Over half-way

Well I’ve got over the half-way mark for the 365 project. For the most part, it’s not been too bad. It helps having two photographer friends, Martyn and Carol going along with me on this as we tend to give each other a bit of encouragement if we’re flagging a little. It also helps that we’re not too anal about when you put the images up. We try for the most part to take the pictures on the day that we are supposed to, and I think all three of us have stuck to that. We are however, a little bit more lenient with putting them up on our 365 Flickr site. If one of us is on holiday then that person will generally wait until they have returned home before they upload. Obviously this sometimes means that their photographs are out of sync with the other two, but that is no problem and it soon puts itself right.

If you’ve looked at the images that I’ve been putting up for the last six months, you would have seen that we are actually doing the 365 project using titles for each day. Most of the titles come from a really good website, http://www.fatmumslim.com.au. I do alter some of the titles and put some of my own in though.

I have been using my Nikon Coolpix P300 for the vast majority of the images. I normally keep that camera on my person all the time so it is ready to take a picture whenever one presents the opportunity, and I have made a conscious effort not to plan my 365 images too much, but to generally go with the first idea I have for the image. Once I download the picture it is catalogued in Lightroom and then opened in Photoshop CS6. Once in there I put it through Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 and use a Film Noir filter to give the high contrast effect that you can see on the photos. Sometimes I’ll add a slight colour tint to the images, but most of the time they are just black and white.

I do think that there are images of different qualities in my 365 collection so far. This is down to the way that I approach the titles and the ideas that I have for that subject. The whole essence of this project is to think quickly about the subject and formulate the shoot in the same manner.

It can get difficult to think of an idea for the day’s title and I think that this is reflected in the quality of some of the images. Still, this was never a way to take amazing images but an exercise in photographic observation.