Photographic Projects for 2009 ?

PaulieC

Hi All and Happy new year

Just wondering if anyone has any particular projects or photos they are looking for in 2009 ?

Myself, I am looking for the following:

1) M1 Suspension bridge in Drogheda: Got a few shots of this a few years back and got them printed for my sister. Saw them over xmas and was totally embarassed at how bad they are. I've been sussing out angles and sunrise/sunset positions and have now to figure out how to gett hose angles without breaking any laws

2) 4 Seasons image of a field. Show the field depicting the 4 seasons. Have the field chosen

3) Communion Portraits. Have one in my house this year and have been asked by friends to do some pre-communion portraits. Have to research good non-corny poses

4) Develop a good family portrait style

A few more ideas in mind that I don't want to say too much about

challengemaster

1) Having bought my first proper sort of lighting equipment (Calumet Genesis 200 2-light kit), I plan to get a SB-600 and some Cactus triggers, and with my Sigma 530DG get some strobist stuff done this year.

2) Really would like to get some decent car photography done this year. Problems though - Lack of decent cars to photograph / Lack of interesting location / Lack of knowledge. (boardsies - you're welcome to help me here!)

3) Portraits/etc. 2009 needs more of them

Fajitas!

Grad show :pac:

gandalf

LOL only one big project this year, getting married and I cannot even take photos of it myself (I have been warned that I cannot touch a camera on the day )

CabanSail

challengemaster wrote: »

Really would like to get some decent car photography done this year. Problems though - Lack of decent cars to photograph / Lack of interesting location / Lack of knowledge. (boardsies - you're welcome to help me here!)

If you are interested in Off Road vehicles in a forest setting, then I may be able to help here.


My project is co-ordinating a group to photograph the Kilmainham Gaol over the next couple of months. Then getting those images sorted into an Exhibition in the Gaol which opens in late March.

smelltheglove

challenge where are you based? If you let me do the car thing with you I could prob borrow a few cars, merc audi and bmw, relatively new ones. Could push at a flash sports car too.

gandalf

CabanSail wrote: »

My project is co-ordinating a group to photograph the Kilmainham Gaol over the next couple of months. Then getting those images sorted into an Exhibition in the Gaol which opens in late March.

If this is something open to Boards.ie peops I would love to get a chance to take a few shots in there. Let me know if so.

challengemaster

smelltheglove wrote: »

challenge where are you based? If you let me do the car thing with you I could prob borrow a few cars, merc audi and bmw, relatively new ones. Could push at a flash sports car too.

I'm in Westmeath (moate to be specific). I'm open to any and all suggestions/help with this one. Could use all the help I could get. Talk about having no clue!
Cabansail: hmm.. any more info?

Actually there's one other thing I forgot (dunno how..) - Leaving Cert. Fun fun.

Bollix

Calina

Might be worth throwing a post over on the Motors forum.

smelltheglove

Well I'm good to get a lend of acouple of nice cars, pity I dont own them myself:( I'm going rally racing soon so hope to get really cool shots then.

challengemaster

Calina wrote: »

Might be worth throwing a post over on the Motors forum.

That may get a few cars wrangled up (so yes, it would be worth it) - Still leaves the photography aspect of it. Unforutnatly car photography isn't something that's widely covered informtion/tutorial wise. You can find more tips for taking portraits than you'll know what to do with, but I'm having trouble finding 5 for car photography...

Fajitas!

Stop worrying and just take the pictures tbh.

Calina

challengemaster wrote: »

That may get a few cars wrangled up (so yes, it would be worth it) - Still leaves the photography aspect of it. Unforutnatly car photography isn't something that's widely covered informtion/tutorial wise. You can find more tips for taking portraits than you'll know what to do with, but I'm having trouble finding 5 for car photography...

yes, well kitesurfing is the same. I bought kite magazines and looked at other people's photographs.

From my dim memories of being a car nerd, the photography in Car was probably the best.

Dodgykeeper

gandalf wrote: »

If this is something open to Boards.ie peops I would love to get a chance to take a few shots in there. Let me know if so.

+1

thebaz

My Paddy's day book and part time photography Masters (if accepted) will keep me busy photography wise.

CabanSail

gandalf wrote: »

If this is something open to Boards.ie peops I would love to get a chance to take a few shots in there. Let me know if so.

Unfortunately not. It was DCC that was given the permission to access the Gaol. I organised a trip there in January 08 after a few months of negotiation & provision of insurance documents etc. We were allowed a party of 10 people that time. A few months later I invited the Director of the Gaol to the club to do a commentary on the images taken. He was quite impressed with the quality of the showcase & this project has developed from that.

There are a few Boardies who are also DCC members in the group.

challengemaster

Calina wrote: »

yes, well kitesurfing is the same. I bought kite magazines and looked at other people's photographs.

All that does is make me slightly depressed about it. Seeing awesome shots and going "right so, no chance of being able to get those".

PaulieC

any more details on the book Baz? Sounds interesting

thebaz

cambo_gueno wrote: »

any more details on the book Baz? Sounds interesting

similar to the boards book, thats where i got idea, except solo - 50 images of since I have been doing my thing - its difficult finalising final 50 - and i have to send it off tomorrow - as i'm away Wednesday for awhile - and want to launch it for Paddys day -

hopelessOne

A photoblog with the aim of publishing one photo a day for 2009. I can't take a picture every day but I'm hoping to publish more recent stuff from each weekend (currently, it's photos from last year as I'm sick at the moment).

I'd also really like to build up a portfolio of "The Life of Irish Mammals", particularly foxes, hare and deer. Not going to be easy though. I want to juxtapose images of them in natural and urban environments, and how we usually see them: dead on the roads.

Borderfox

challengemaster wrote: »

All that does is make me slightly depressed about it. Seeing awesome shots and going "right so, no chance of being able to get those".

That spurs me on to make better pictures.

superflyninja

phew....ummmm the only project set in stone is my mini trip to Rome.So i hope to get a few nice ones there....bar that Ill do anything that would help me inprove basically.(even if that menas nicking ideas from fellow boardies....hehehe)

delly

cambo_gueno wrote: »

1) M1 Suspension bridge in Drogheda: Got a few shots of this a few years back and got them printed for my sister. Saw them over xmas and was totally embarassed at how bad they are. I've been sussing out angles and sunrise/sunset positions and have now to figure out how to gett hose angles without breaking any laws

A lot of the photo developers have pictures of the Boyne bridge in one form or another on show around Drogheda.

One which I saw a while back caught the sunrise from the road that goes under the bridge and got the river Boyne at the same time. I've also seen night shots from a similar position which I've marked below.

PixelTrawler

thebaz wrote: »

My Paddy's day book and part time photography Masters (if accepted) will keep me busy photography wise.

Barry, what course is that by the way... and good luck with the book

Oh, and only one project this year... improve! More specifically my landscapes and actually getting up early enough to get decent shots

Pigwidgeon

don't really have a project as such, just to try and get out and shoot as much as i possibly can with the leaving cert looming.

also, to stop using the LR presets i have so much and do each photo differently in photoshop.

to try and get more people and night time shots.

to get a photo i'll be really happy with for the next boards book.

Dink

^^^^^^ what she said apart from the leaving cert bit!!! That was done ....mmmmm ...about 13 years ago :eek:

CraggyIslander

thebaz wrote: »

My Paddy's day book and part time photography Masters (if accepted) will keep me busy photography wise.

I'm certain you'll get accepted baz and ace it, your portfolio speaks volumes on its own already

No projects for me, other than actually going out and taking pictures.. well ok, maybe one project...... hoping to go to canada in may / june and drive from calgary to vancouver and document my journey into the rockies

thebaz

cambo_gueno wrote: »

any more details on the book Baz? Sounds interesting

theres one of my projects nearly done - just before i depart

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/527709

won't get rich on the profits - but its a nice personal aim - (probaly a few typos and other things I'll see when its delivered in print )

Covey

Looks very good Barry, best of luck with it.

As I was one of the first to buy a framed photo, put me down for the first copy as well.

T.

AnCatDubh

Haven't figured out mine yet but red mum recently posted a link to photojojo's new year's photo resolutions.

So off ye go, anyone (like me) that hasn't yet decided and get yerself a project or multiple projects for you to commit to. And of course post it when you are settled so that we can check up on you later in the year

thebaz

Covey wrote: »

Looks very good Barry, best of luck with it.

As I was one of the first to buy a framed photo, put me down for the first copy as well.

T.

Cheers Covey will be officially available on March 17 , but leaving it available online, even though I havn't proof read the hard copy (Limited editions and all that !)

Covey

I have a few on the go already;

I hope to finish a project on Postmen and women , which is 2/5th finished and the rest more or less planned, .

I hope to go back and complete something on the displacement of people I started 3 yrs ago in the Golan Heights.

A project on the Bank Crisis that is in the conceptional stage and may need a collaborator later on.

A very risky collaboration between myself and a non-photographic person thats way outside the box. Won't say more at the moment as it's still a bit iffy.

Four or Five more in various states of conception, that may never be born. But, I do hope to get through another four or five projects in any event.

Add to that the normal "street photography" and hopefully a bit of nature stuff thrown in as well.

Somewhere in between, do a bit of work, study, eat and sleep .....

WexfordMusings

For me, as a previous poster said - take more photos. i just bought my first DSLR - A Nikon D60 - so will be doing portraits, trying out some archtectural pics and of course a lot more of urbex

merkuree

Explore more off the beaten track in my city and just shoot more.

A colleaugue at work just spent 5 days in Yosemite shooting the park at sunrise after fresh snow.....amazing shots.....but I have had enough of snow for a while....so maybe some B/W Yosemite in April and the playa in Death Valley in May or September...

elven

I'll be doing SoFoBoMo again round about April. And less of a photo taking project as such - but i reeeeally need to sort out my wedding portfolio.

At the moment I'm looking to get into something but i'm at a loss so I need to wait for inspiration to hit, in the meantime i suppose i'll just keep on wandering round shooting randomly...

PaulieC

elven wrote: »

I'll be doing SoFoBoMo again round about April. And less of a photo taking project as such - but i reeeeally need to sort out my wedding portfolio.

At the moment I'm looking to get into something but i'm at a loss so I need to wait for inspiration to hit, in the meantime i suppose i'll just keep on wandering round shooting randomly...

it's the waiting for inspiration bit that made me start this thread in the first place. I've started a list for myself of things I want to get done this year as I missed a few things last year...

elven

It's been said elsewhere recently that productivity helps creativity - that you're more likely to come up with something if you're just out shooting anyway - so the suggestion is to just start a casual project on something that interests you, and see where it goes. The photojojo suggestion of doing 30 images of a single subject is probably a good help in that case. But I just can't seem to decide what to shoot. I want to have that 'new eyes' feeling I got when i started using the holga lens...

Ciaran500

1) Buy a camera
2) Take pictures

I've big plans for 09.

challengemaster

Pinhole? I'm sure Al has a few hundred pinhole cameras/lenses he could lend you! :pac:

elven

Pinhole means patience - and *shudder* - a tripod! Ugh!

Fajitas!

Zone plate ftw.

elven

http://www.ellingerphoto.com/ZPX.html

Fajitas!

My Rollei Pan 25 has clear emulsion for making the plate, want a new lens?

bovril

elven wrote: »

http://www.ellingerphoto.com/ZPX.html

They are beautiful.