About
Welcome to the third incarnation of The Midnight Run: Project 365.
I’ve wanted to get myself a decent camera for quite sometime. I finally took the plunge when a local store put their entry-level DSLRs on clearance. That would be the start of my small infatuation with photography. The initial excitement over my new tech toy has since burned away, and I was glad to find a few embers remained.
I started talking with my Dad, who used to do professional photography before I was born. He recommended I look up photographers who inspired him back in the day.
So I looked them up. Their photos evoked feelings in me I can’t even begin to identify, except for a few. One of those was inadequacy. My father was quick to remind me that those pictures are their pictures, and that I need to find my own direction.
And so, here I am, starting my own Project 365.
What is Project 365?
Project 365, in its most basic, is a challenge to take a picture a day in 365 days.
What solidified my intent was a post from the Digital Photography School, which suggested undertaking Project 365 to coincide with the start of 2010.
Why do it?
Different people do it for different reasons. In my case, I want to learn how to use my equipment, get better at composing in-camera (and not rely on cropping), develop my eyes’ ability to identify something that will make a compelling photograph, and maybe discover my photographic inclinations. Chronicling a year in images sounds cool too.
Any Apprehensions?
Lots. I’m a night person, so I’ll probably end up taking a lot of indoor photos and relying a lot on artificial lighting. And indoors will probably mean a lot of close-up photography as an attempt to make things interesting. I expect to run out of ideas not long into it. But who knows. This is me talking before I even start.
I’m sure taking a picture a day will get old quickly. But you know what they say: practice makes perfect. At worst, I hope to last longer than the average 3 weeks before most people call it quits. At best, maybe a year from now I’ll write a prologue of how I managed to muscle through it.
Here goes nothing.