The End
That’s it! Done. Over. Fin.
I’ve taken and published a photo a day for the whole of 2008! That’s 366 photos (bloody leap years) Wow.
A huge thankyou goes to everyone who’s been following this, feeding me ideas and giving me support, especially on the days when I didn’t feel like taking a photo. I feel I’ve learnt a lot over the last year, and my skills have certainly improved (although there is still a lot of room for further improvement!)
I can have a day off tomorrow! That’s going to feel weird.
Where next? I’m not sure.
I think I’m going to continue to take a camera with me everywhere I go, and this photoblog will continue in some form – although I’m going to aim for quality rather than quantity and only publish images I’m truly happy with. I may start posting links and/or some more wordy stuff as well, we’ll see how it goes.
My photography aims for 2009 are pretty much:
- More Portraiture. I need to learn how to work with models, it’s a gap which I’ve struggled to fill.
- Keep working on the lighting. I’ve still got so much more to learn about lighting! I really need to hook up with the Bristol Strobist crowd (Less gear, more brains!) – they’ll probably be able to help with that first aim as well.
- Update my workflow. The Gimp has served me reasonably well for the last year, but I’m frequently hitting it’s limits. I lack a decent RAW processing solution, and my “file by date” approach is making it hard to find the shots I want in the archive.
- See if there’s a way I can feel at home on flickr.
Any thoughts/comments/favourite images from 2008 – hit the comments.
Happy new year everyone :-)
Happy New Year Paul, sorry I can’t offer you any software advice for windows, except I hear good things about lightroom. On OSX me recommendation would be Aperture. Thank you for sharing all your photographs with us, they’ve certainly been an insipration to me. -Colin
That’s it – 366 pictures! You officially win.
Well done. Last year Miku said that my pics got better when the “every day” monkey was off my back, which I guess was true. Now it’s your turn to prove his theory right.
No pressure.
jani
@Colin – “sorry I can’t offer you any software advice for windows” – That wouldn’t help much anyway, I’m mostly linux (apart from my work laptop – which is a macbook pro) – I suppose it would help a bit as at least I can run stuff with WINE.
Say – isn’t it your turn for a photo a day now? You’re one of the photogs I know who hasn’t tried it yet ;-) Go on, you know you want to!
@Jani – I’m hoping Miku’s right, having that little bit more time to think about the photo (both before and after pressing the button) should help a lot.
Thanks for the comments guys :-)
Congratulations Paul, I knew you could do it. My favorite has to be 9th Dec “Roofspace”, but only because I’m in it!
Well done Paul for achieving your goal! I had a look through them all the other day and it surprised me how many I had remembered which must be a sign of a good images. My personal favourite was your self portrait ‘Self’ 27th May,
Cheers
Andy
Well done. A tough goal to complete!
> @Colin – “sorry I can’t offer you any software advice for windows” – That wouldn’t
> help much anyway, I’m mostly linux (apart from my work laptop – which is a
> macbook pro) – I suppose it would help a bit as at least I can run stuff with WINE.
>
> Say – isn’t it your turn for a photo a day now? You’re one of the photogs I know
> who hasn’t tried it yet ;-) Go on, you know you want to!
But wanting to, Isn’t the same as doing it. I did consider it, but never started it on 090101, so um, yeah. I suppose I can start it today, but I warn you, it’ll be a lot of Macro and Wildlife.
I suppose I also need to get a decent blog software or something that will let people comment,…
I know you were looking at software Paul, currently I’m deciding between, flickr, fotopic, and my own server, in order of control, any thoughts?
Hardcore! Award yourself 366 gold stars!
Bro has just begun PaD for 2009, the fool.
Ooh, Sweavo, got a link?, :) it would be interesting to see how other people are tackling it. (having just started PaD myself)
2009 Photo A Day roundup:
- Stu (sweavos bro) – http://blog.pygmygoat.net/
- Colin – http://www.random-chaos.org.uk/photo-a-day/
Anyone know of any I’m missing?
http://www.paulseward.com/blog/photo-a-week/ ?