[Closed] Calling all photographers - who is up for One Photo Everyday 2010?

Yup I was thinking this after seeing yours through the year, Simon. Got an interesting year coming up!

Yeah, i'll be up for that Simon. I'll join the group now. What's the score, just post a pic every day to the group pool?

Kit - excellent - would be great to have you on board! My year this year went Gibraltar - Scotlamd - Peru - Scotland - Devon - Scotland. It really is wierd seeing your whole year in thumbnails on a single Flickr page. Even if some of the photos are a tad duff on the off days, they totally change when seen as part of a whole year! My year didn't really get off to a good start and it shows, but yeah, it's good to see it picking up : )

Yep - you load up one photo a day but you can post a few at a time if you can't get to a computer to load them up. This group is one of the most laid back in terms of rules and regs. I just ask people not to swear on photos or in the discussion and keep the content family friendly really. That's about it.

aye i'll be up for that too simon

just post a pic every day to the group pool?

Kato, I think the idea is to take one photo each day to upload, i.e. you create a visual 'diary' for the year with 365 photos.

Ah right - yes - the idea is that you take a photo for that day, yourself, someone else, self timer, and upload that. It isnt upload any photo from any day. Some people do and that is fine, but the challenge is to take one photo a day.

I am not a photographer, but the great thing is is that there are some very talented ones on there who can give you ideas about composition etc. It can be a good way to learn and be inspired.

This is my life in 2009 😀

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonralli/sets/72157612015799085/

Oh, it's always interesting to see which pics you lot decide to click on when I post this set. It isnt hard to guess lol.

Yeah that's how I understood it. Take one a day and post to the pool. I'm looking forward to it

I'm going to try to do this for 2010 Simon.

Starting a digital photography course for the S2 pupils at my school so this should give me a focus (sorry...).

My uploads will probably be sporadic rather than one upload each day, but I'll try to stick to [i]taking [/i]one per day - you might get a weeks's worth at a time.

When Simon posted up this time last year I joined up and it's been a great disraction for a work a day life, 4 of us who joined last year have managed to complete our One Photo A Day project some are just a bit short and some pop in from time to time. All are welcome.

Here's my set so far
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/sets/72157612202073656/

A few of my favorites
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/3241807552/in/set-72157612202073656/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/3312650986/in/set-72157612202073656/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/3665837168/in/set-72157612202073656/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/3890003379/in/set-72157612202073656/

I'm currently uploading my photos to a book which i'll order on Jan 1st from here
http://www.blurb.com/

Simon did ask for Photographers, well don't worry if you're as crap as me or even worse it will be worth it. You have un-inspired days and days were you can take hundreds and it's difficult to choose which shot to up load.

There is also an monthly mini competition where no prizes are given out and I've never won it 🙁

Ah well John, with a few more from STW plus me trying to fiddle it for you, all you need to do is post a pic of your bike and I am sure we will work something out.

I forgot to ssy the group has an icon. At the end of each month we vote for our favourite photo, and the best pic gets to be the icon of the month for the following month. Just for fun but it's good to celebrate all the great photos in the group.

Joined up 🙂

No idea how I will get along, but I tend to work out and about in the Lakes and beyond and almost always have my camera with me. Just need to get my motivation levels up a bit, and try to slow down a bit during the day.

Look forward to getting started!

RobS
Joined up

Look forward to getting started!

There's nothing stopping you starting today, get snapping

:-)I would really like to do this, but I have a couple of questions.
1. This year I am 50 yoa and for my b/day me and the s/o are off to Colorado and Utah driving along the scenic byways and visiting interesting places. So while I will be able to take hundreds of pics I won't have anything with me to post them up (wee bit of a techno phobe).
2. So can I select 1 pic per day to post and do it when we get back (3 weeks later)? Or what is the alternative ?
Thanks. 🙂

Gravy

I was in Peru in the rainforests for a month, with no electricity and no nothing! We have a 6 photos a day limit, so you can upload 6 pics a day to catch up. We have this sorted.

In 2010 I will be spending 3 months doing some very intensive training in the rainforests again, so yeah, I will have a 3 month gap to fill!

Gravy, you can post up to 6 photos a day so if you need to catch up it may take a few days of 6 uploads a day.

Don't forget even though you're away and taking loads of shots you can only chose one phote a day.

Dam you Simon 👿 😉

Duid I forget to say the very wonderful JohnClimer is the other admin who will keep you all in shape while I am away.

And who knows, maybe this time I will bring back a Mrs Ralli from peru. Anything could happen next year for me and I have as yet no plans for the end of my MSc 😯

I'll sign up for that as well 🙂

Sounds interesting, I'll give it a go

Sounds good. I've become a bit lazy with my own photoblog posting, so maybe this will encourage me to get the camera out regularly again.

I'm in, might be a bit dull though. I'll have to try to have an interesting life this year.

Crewlie

Well don't forget to read my little pep talk here!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/onephotoeveryday/discuss/72157623080697766/

Wow - 97 people in the group - I wonder if we will reach 100 before 31st? Great to have a few new peeps on board!

I'll give it a go, but can't access my flickr account till I get home.
(Mobile dongle won't allow it)

Just joined, this is something I had planned on doing for 2010 so it would be good to have somewhere to post them. Most of them will be uploaded straight from my iPhone as I rarely carry my camera, and don't have proper internet access at the moment. I just like taking photos though 🙂 It's gonna be fun!

sounds a terrible idea!
😉

Joined too, most of my shots will either be from my Blackberry or from my Canon DSLR, but sometimes i do let some of my older/toy cameras out to play in the light 😉

Looking forward to it, got a few interesting things planned for this year too.

If anything, hopefully will be interesting insight into peoples day to day thoughts/ideas/images.

Oh, my flickr name is msjharper, link is in the profile.

Nothing wrong with camera phone pics - you almost always fall back on them a few days of the year.

BTW - had to tell a couple of new people it isnt loads up any old photo from a few years back! It's like, take a pic today and load it up!

Sign me up for this, was planning on doing something similar anyway so this should make sure I actually do it! assume it's a joint flicker account? Can someone let me have the details?

Mine will be a mix of iPhone and digi pics, will try to keep them as interesting as I can.., no promises though!

One thing I found help me out was downloading [url= http://paint.net ]paint.net[/url] for free

Where I crop my shots to a Resolution of 72pixels/inch (perfect to screens) and 13" by what every I've cropped it to. I then compress it down to around 300kbs

Coming to the end of my 365 project. Hard work at first but learnt a lot about photography and also about the patterns that take place in my life.

My set is [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/sets/72157611912418405/ ]here - 365[/url]

I might give it another go but would do it very differently - it ended up taking up far too much time last year so I didn't get beyond August, after the kids mutinied. If I do it again it'll be with film rather than digital, so I'll submit in batches about two or three weeks out of sync. I'll see....

And thanks very much for keeping at it Simon - very much appreciated 🙂

cheers

harry / lorax / modalshift

i started doing a [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodhank/sets/72157622685510393/ ]'365'[/url] in novemeber but didn't join a group. most of the 365 groups seem really large and kinda anonymous, you guys seem much more friendly. see you over there 🙂

I might as well sign up for this too.

Kate

Yep - it's a very friendly and positive group. I have barely needed to do any Moderating, and I look forward to seeing your pics.

Goan - yeah - get clicking on your mobile phone and get uploading. When you get into the flow of things it gets easy, but there have been a few hairy moments trying to remember to take a pic! The challenge I always feel is remembering to snap.

Think I'll sign up for this. Good excuse to get used to the panny GF1 I moved to from the D80.
Plus help me focus my mind and try and stop me thinking about the possibility I may have MS.
GF1 comes every where with me now since it's nice and compact.

My life is dull as shit

But I might as well give it a go starting on Jan 1st

Looks like I better find myself a cheap compact digital, dont want to be lugging a D70 with me everywhere and my phone camera is crap

Blimey - looks like there will be a flood of images come January.

Here is the introduction to someone else's 365 to inspire you all:

This year - 2009 I will be taking a photo a day.

It’s a difficult undertaking but I have
lots of reasons for wanting to do this
- To serve as a visual way to remember 2009 in the years and decades to come….. the sights, sounds, places, faces, things.
- Understand and review the changes that I might need to make in my life
- To view the world and appreciate its beauty every single day
- To notice the little things that we all take for guaranteed.
- Become a better photographer and challenge my self to take the best photos I possibly can with a very modest digital camera.

Been a member of the group for a while now, I was going to start on the 1st Jan..........

Thanks for the reminder.

Just signed up, thanks for the reminder!

Will you lot please stop joining up now..........

I've been doing it for 12 months now and each month we have a mini competition for the best shot....................

I've never won.................

With this many joining I've no chance 🙁

Stop it now.............

Actually being an admin for the pool and while Simons away I think I've fake a win this summer........No one will notice

I've wandered over and signed up asa this may just give me the inspsiration and reasin I need to take more ( and hopefully better ) shots in 2010 ...
I had thought of doing similar anyway but had not heard of groups like this so a BIG THANKS for setting it up and passing the info on.

Fatboyslow on 365

Andy B in RL

John

Well what you need is cunning skill like myself to engineer a genuine win 😀

Oh and she may post a pic of herself now the baby is nearly due 😯

See what you guys who are not involved in this are missing out on? heh

Simon - I think while you're away I'll forget to run a vote one month and on the 3rd day of the next monthdeclare it too late and use one of my own.

When is it you're away again? 😉

i've never won either, the best don't need recognition eh john?

Cunning plan cunning. But don't forget Modalshift could be making a comeback so we will need all the fudging we can muster between us if we are to have any chance 😀

"lugging a D70"...

I carried round a D70 for most of the year and now use a D300. I find the little 35mm prime keeps the weight down and allows some better low light stuff. It's almost always in my bag.

Quick question on " etiquette " for the photos...

Is it originals only ( with a bit of cropping )

or can you also do a bit of touching up before posting them ?

Wouldn't like to get off on wrong foot ,

apologies for asking question here rather than on group forum but can't access that from work

Good stuff, should encourage me to carry my camera more!

Lister

Hi I am glad you have raised the issue of etiquette as some people have seen fit to add one or two photos from 2007, and for others the concept of just ONE photo a day proved too taxing, posting 2 pics instead. You would have thought the hint was in the title of the group 😀

We did have a conversation about this in the group. When I started the group I wanted it to be as laid back as possible so adding effects is fine, and in the group are one or two students who practice their techniques and have come up with some cool pics. So yeah, basically we need a photo taken on that day.

At the start of the group someone posted a pic with a trail of car lights in the dark and that led to a few of us trying out the technique. And then someone posted a "camera toss" photo so i tried it out too - this photo below is me putting the camera on a long exposure then trowing it in the air - no effects at all!

[img] [/img]

I've just posted pic 364 out of 365 - so near to the completion of the challenge!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonralli/4228286158/

[i]is it originals only ( with a bit of cropping )

or can you also do a bit of touching up before posting them ?

Wouldn't like to get off on wrong foot ,

apologies for asking question here rather than on group forum but can't access that from work[/i]

Don't think there's any problem editing and cropping. People have different opinions on HDR and other effects but I think as long as it was taken on the right day and you don't cheat it's a goer! Most of mine are processed in Lightroom for levels, sharpening, cropped and the odd effect applied - ie B+W or a film type simulation such as Fuji Velvia.

Good luck.

Off to find an image for today then think about what to do for my last one.

Ooh - sounds like fun, and a challenge at the same time!

im always up for learning more about taking cool pics...

count me in.. i joined the group. Pete_6

For those of you (like me) who may have to resort to using an iPhone to take the occasional daily photo might be interested in a couple of new (to me) apps in the App Store.

One is "GorillaCam", it's free and gives you some useful options like a framing grid, spirit level and "touch anywhere" shutter button.. It also does time lapse, self-timer and even 3-second bursts...

The other is "Hipstamatic" and this costs £1.19 and it basically adds Holga-type distortions and colour tints to your shots. There is a choice of virtual lenses and virtual film (with pricey add-on packs).

hth

Well I have to say this time next year will be interesting to see who made it!

My last biking shot of the year today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/4229209714/

Unless I can't think of one tomorrow while I'm upgrading some bits, who knows?

I've just had a quick count and about 81 of this years pictures I've contributed have something to do with bikes. I must try harder in 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/sets/72157612202073656/

But my funniest one is this one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/3723602087/in/set-72157612202073656/

Heh - top photo that one.

Can everyone who has signed up please check in tomorrow (i.e. go to the flickr group) for Simon's amazing end of year photo competition. It will have a cunning twist!

Si

"Simon's amazing end of year photo competition"

God help us 🙄

Ah, just you wait and see.

Last day! Woooooooo.

Yeah - it's amazing to have finally achieved one photo a day. It really takes quite a lot to manage this, and well done to everyone who made it through the year!!

I have not posted my final pic yet, am hoping to see if we get a view of the full blue moon tonight 🙂

I plan on doing a 365 next year 🙂

Well that's my last one of the year and after such a crap year these are my favorites from each month of the year.

[img] [/img]
Who said we had to point a camera everyday?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/4230473875/in/pool-onephotoeveryday

Roll on 2010......

TO ALL THE IPHONE PHOTOGRAPHERS... WHAT IS THE BEST WAY OF ADDING PHOTOS TO THE FLICKR GROUP? FLICKR.APP DOESNT HAVE THIS CAPABILITY AFAIK, THE ONLY WAY I CAN FIGURE IT OUT IS TO USE THE FULL, NON-OPTIMISED WEBSITE, WHICH IS A BIT OF A CHORE ON THE PHONE.

Does your phone have CAPS LOCK?

The Flickr iPhone app will do it. There's an icon in the top right to upload.

Also you can email them to your Flickr account
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/11/14/quick-tip-uploading-photos-from-your-iphone/

I'd imagine it'll get confusing pretty quickly though. I prefer to keep mine carefully numbered on my laptop at home.

See image below. Top right camera icon allows you to upload.
[img] [/img]

theginjaninja - Are you going to add the odd shot throughout the year?

I hope so

John, yeah. Every now and then. I might have a week off if that's ok though? 🙂

AND.... that's it. I'm [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/4231143893/ ]done![/url]

Day 365 of 365
[img] [/img]

That was good. Learnt a lot and had a lot of fun. Spent far too much money on photography gear but never mind.

For all those doing 2010 then good luck!

And so it begins, posted my first pic to the group. Going to be an intersting year.

Right, that's it - I'm in - on Flickr I'll show as Chris1968.
Taken todays shot - jut have to find the (tiny) SD card reader...... 🙄

Also, off to find the Flickr app for the i-phone....

Hmm, some foot fetishist seems to have taken a shine to the group...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37563990@N02/4199336413/in/pool-onephotoeveryday

Not any more - just been on and removed a load 😀

152 members now.

That's a lot of photos a day for us all to look through and judge at the end of each month

Sorry I should have explained better, the app will of course upload to my flickr account but I couldnt work out how to add the photograph to the group.

I guess I'll just have to add them manually when I have use of a peecee. 🙂 I've suggested this as a feature though.

Can't wait to start looking through everyones photos!

simon, is it ok for me to join? Took some pics yesterday and just about to upload ( I know I should have done it yesterday!), not sure how long I'll keep it up but should get me to use my camera more 🙂

Hitman

Of course feel free!

Si

I've joined - sorry for the late upload! Looking forward to this 🙂

Ive joined sorry im late 🙄