Go on, stretch yourself. The 365 photo a day is a rite of passage that at some point we all attempt, and often people will fail at maintaining it. However, that’s not a failure of the project it will have taught you a lot (ok maybe not if you stop on day2) and opened your eyes to those elusive grab shots and the difficulty of producing a sustained output. I know it has for me.
FWAPhoto is a photo a day project with a difference, it is not one submitter but many, and so has a constant rich vein of photographic talent to draw from. You can even submit your own work to the project. It’s definitely a site worth browsing with a fresh hot cup of Java and some time to kill.
Not quite a 365, but a few of us set up a 31 day photo challenge that we’ve talked about before. It’s coming to a close soon and has been fun to participate in and see what everyone has produced. Seeing how a group event differs from the very personal 365 exploration has been interesting and informatinve. I know a few, including Matt, are hoping to make it a 365 experience.. let’s hope they can. For me, I’m thinking about it again.. maybe this time I will finish the task.
Filed under Mark Tags: linkage, Video — • Written by Mark @ 4:23 pm
Earlier I wrote about how we interact with emotions in photographs, and how the darker emotions invite more connections and narrative, well here’s a video that is part of Nikon’s Your Day in 140 seconds or less competition in which people submitted 140 second videos taken with their DSLRs.
I really like this video: Today
It has a nice warm feel, and the transitions of facial expression makes you think and is also capabable of giving you a dose of the warm and fuzzies, if you let it. I think it is the transition of emotions and the question of “what made them smile?” that really helps you connect with this, along with the very well selected soundtrack. Watching with and withoutaudio, shows how important the right choice of audio is for pieces like this. The new DSLR cameras with their video capability are going to open up opportunities in portraiture, the moving portrait can be very engaging. Hmmm anyone got a 5D2 they want to loan me?
