Don’t Forget to Set the Date and Time!

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I have been updating my Flickr account with a back log of Project 365 photographs which it was in desperate need of, I had become a little behind to say the least.

When I started to notice that the dates of the images were wrong, I don’t normally look at the dates but with working through so many photographs they caught my eye today. They were saying the images had been taken in March 2008! Which I thought was a little strange.

So I checked my computer’s date and time, which were fine so it wasn’t that. The next stop was the camera, which hadn’t crossed my mind as the culprit. I had set the date and time when I had got it over a year ago. But it was the culprit, it’s date was set on 23 March 2008 at 1.15 am for some reason?

The only reason I can think of for this to happen was that a while ago the battery went flat while I was out, maybe that messed around with the date and time somehow, I don’t know. It was easily fixed though through the setup menu.

But since I’m doing a Project 365 it’s important that I have the correct date so I’m glad that I noticed it, and have corrected it now. It just shows it’s easy to miss the simple things, and good to check them every now and then!

Mandy

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How’s my P365 going?

Sunset from my window.

It’s been a while since I mentioned my Project 365 a photo a day for a year. It’s starting to build up nicely now I’m well into my third month. I can’t believe how fast that has gone. So here are some of my favourites for April. I can start to see the year panning out through photographs which is interesting, I can imagine it will be great to look back on in the future.

my son’s new light.

But April was a hard month to do, I had trouble thinking of what to shoot everyday but I expected that it wasn’t all going to be plain sailing.

build your own computer.

Mandy

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My First Month of Project 365!

Well I have finished the first month of my Project 365, the first milestone. I’ve uploaded all my photos to my Flickr account, except two which I took on my mobile phone, I’m still looking for the lead to upload them to my computer!

I’m not doing a specific project 365, like a self portrait one. I’m more documenting my year where possible and the things around me. Which is really interesting. Some days are harder than others when thinking of something to shoot, but it’s challenging and making me look for photo opportunities everywhere.

So much for this photo a day thing, I never realised that to get that one photo I was going to have to take so many! But because I am taking so many photos I feel I am starting to improve and I’m learning a lot, as well as getting better at spotting photo opportunities.

I’m really enjoying it, and just looking back at last month is rewarding and gets me excited for this month.

Here are three of my favourites from this month, if you would like to see more then take a look at my Flickr account.

Mandy

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My Project 365 is Live

This is my first photograph for my Project 365. Which was taken on a trip to the park on Saturday, and is off a Canadian goose who was looking a little sad and dejected in the cold and wind.

Starting the Project 

I started my Project 365 on 1st March 2008 and have been taking a photo a day ever since (a whole 4 days - so far so good). So only 361 days to go!

I’m not too worried about thinking of photos to take, not at the moment anyway I’m only 4 days in and still confident. I think I’m more worried about forgetting to take one.

I am going to keep notes on what I take each day, like a mini diary so I don’t duplicate anything. And also it will compliment the photos nicely as a document for the year.

Sharing the photos 

I talked the other day about Flickr and possibly uploading the photos to an account there to share them. Well I have set up a Flickr account and uploaded the first photograph. There are loads of different features that I am starting to get to grips with, and being a Flickr newbie I will share them here as I go along. I will probably upload the photos in weekly batch’s at first to see how that goes rather than daily. And I will post once a month here to share how it is going.

A little inspiration 

For a bit of inspiration here are some other photographers that have taken the Project 365 challenge on:

Sandy 365
Carol365
Nicole365

I am looking forward to this project and committing to it for a year, and also looking forward to seeing how I have changed by the end of it!

Mandy

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Do You Have a Flickr Account?

I have to admit I didn’t know anything about Flickr until very recently. The first thing I learned was that it is part of the Yahoo Group, and I learned that when I heard about Microsoft putting a bid in for Yahoo.

So why am I interested now?

Well it’s not because Microsoft may be taking over. I am going to be starting my own photography Project 365 and I was trying to decide how to share the photos. This blog is all about my journey as a photographer so the fact that I wanted to share them wasn’t even a question, but where is the best place?

I did think about sharing them on the blog as that was the obvious place, but Project 365 is about taking a photo a day for a year, so that’s a lot of photos. So just adding the photos in between the other posts seemed messy, I felt that the project is big enough to need some separate attention.

But at the moment this blog is still new, building and finding it’s feet, so I don’t feel it’s right to start another blog or photoblog in case it took me away from here.

So I started to look at photo management sites. And the most popular one that you always hear about and everybody seems to be part of is Flickr. Now I don’t know why I have never considered using a photo management site before, I suppose I just haven’t felt the need. But it makes a lot of sense now, I can upload and share my Project 365 photos and link to them from this blog. I will also be doing monthly updates here about how I am finding the project, so joining a photo management site seems a much better solution.

Flickr

As I said earlier Flickr is owned by Yahoo which means you can use your Yahoo ID (if you have one) when you sign up. They say it’s most likely the best photo management system on the internet with millions of users and all types of photographers. I’m most interested in the creative commons feature which gives you flexible control over your images and who is allowed to use them. I am looking forward to trying out Flickr to see what it is like.

Flickr’s two main goals are:

1. To help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
2. Enable new ways to organize photos.

So in a week I have gone from knowing nothing and not being interested in Flickr, to starting my own account and looking to join a Flickr group to do with Project 365, to meet other photographers doing the same thing. A pretty sharp turn around!

Mandy

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Project 365

Could you take a photo a day for a whole year?

I have recently read on Photojojo about this Project 365 - take a photo a day for a year. It was originally started by Taylor McKnight back in 2004 and he has recently done it for a second time. Photojojo are encouraging everyone to have a go and see how it changes you as a person and as a photographer.

It sounds really interesting, the thought of taking a photo a day for a year is a big commitment, and a bit of a challenge to think of something to take every day. But I imagine it would be very interesting, and at the end of the year I would have a huge album of photographs to look back at.

And taking a photo a day for a year can only improve my photography skills surely, or else completely put me off photography for life! Either way it will be fun finding out.

I am definitely going to do it and I am looking forward to the challenge. I haven’t decided yet whether to post the photos here or to use Flickr and share them there (I don’t know anything about Flickr - yet), but I will be waiting until the beginning of next month to start the project just to keep things nice and tidy, and give myself time to prepare!

Why don’t you too take up the challenge and start your own project…

Mandy

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