So this year I limited the area of picture taking to our home and the nearby places, where I could easily carry the camera and even a tripod, with the exception of the three hikes on Vitosha and Rila. I took all the pictures with Nikon 3200, played with the settings and tried new techniques. I still haven't read the f*ing manual and I don't intend to (too boring), but I did read a lot of tips and trick and advices and watched video lessons.
Because of the limited area where I took the pictures, they are not very interesting and diverse, but they did teach me something about light, composition, viewpoint. Now I'm thinking about joining the 365project, the only thing that's stopping me is that this picture taking actually takes a lot of time - sometimes an hour for a picture and I'm not willing to invest that much time into taking pictures every day. And I would risk soon to succumb to mediocre casual pictures taken just for the sake of uploading any picture of the day.
Day 1
I started the challenge with a reference to a picture I took four years ago and submitted to a photo contest in a popular Bulgarian news site. The editors liked it and are still circulating it every summer. This is a printscreen of the head page of the site on August 1st:
Day 2
Sunflowers bouquet with light from the windows, accentuated on the flowers
Home-made eclairs
Day 4
Composition with coffee
Beautiful tree on Vitosha
Day 6
Almost full moon
The beautiful colors of Caprese salad
A puzzle assembled
A rose in the twilight, using flashlight to distinguish it from the surroundings
Lots of traffic in the sky
Composition in yellow - homemade lemonade
Hummingbird moth in action on Vitosha
Rain drops, taken with high speed
Grapes
Composition with fruit
Colors
Rustic composition
Citrus chicken while cooking
Lots of pictures taken on Malyovitza,
There I experimented with speed (for running water), light and boken
Night subway (high ISO, open aperture, low speed)
Cooking peach jam in the oven
Lines in the sky
Beer picture
Charlotte cake for Gaby's BD
Portrait picture
Leisure time
Composition with white wine
Cinnamon buns
Heart-shaped boken lights with hand-made paper filter
Street photography - market
Because it was the last day I posted three pictures I liked which I took that day
Sunset
This is a great project, I really like your photos. My favourites are 13, 20 and 25 (great portrait of Gaby) - but they are all good.
ReplyDeleteI have the same camera! I know what you mean about lugging it around - it can get very heavy. And extra-heavy if taking around extra lenses.
365 days is super-ambitious - you should give it a try, what's the worst that can happen? Based on my experience of 100 days, I think the desperation of finding something to photograph daily can lead to some unexpectedly good things (and some bad things too, but good to learn from)!
Thank you so much for your comment!
DeleteI'm still thinking about project 365 and I'll probably join, maybe on Jan 1, though that's such a cliche. These challenges are real eye-openers for the ways to take good pictures and to notice curious and beautiful things around.