{"id":1821,"date":"2009-03-06T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2009-03-06T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:18:36","slug":"project-365-week-6-where-the-going-gets-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/project-365-week-6-where-the-going-gets-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 365: Week 6 – where the going gets tough!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official, I’m obsessed with my photo-a-day Project 365 <\/a>now. In addition to carrying a camera with me everywhere, and I mean *everywhere* (you get weird looks coming out of a public washroom with a camera around your neck, that’s all I’m sayin’) and looking at everything in the world around me as if I were holding a camera up to my face, I’ve started dreaming about taking pictures. Yep, obsessed.<\/p>\n

You wouldn’t know it to look at my pictures from the last week or so, though. I’ve hit one of those creative dry patches, pretty much summed up in day 43’s entry:<\/p>\n

\n\"43:365<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about photography, and spending a lot of time trying to deconstruct other people’s photographs to see what makes them work. In a way, it’s good because I’m getting ideas and learning how to go beyond simply capturing moments, but bad because I’m realizing that I’m not nearly as clever as I thought I was. As if that weren’t bad enough, I’ve also been endlessly frustrated this week that what I “see” and what the camera creates are not really the same — sometimes not even close. In other words, the theme this week is “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”!<\/p>\n

One of the 365 themes suggested this week was toys, and I actually had a little while to set up this shot and play with it a bit. I liked it the best of all the ones I took, and it seemed to have a lot going for it: nice depth of field and colours, leading lines, more or less follows the ‘rule of thirds’, and a little bit clever because I *almost* managed to get a self-portrait in the shiny bit of the magnet. <\/p>\n

\"44:365<\/a><\/div>\n

But the angle is just a little bit off, and now that’s all I can see. Plus, the self-portrait really isn’t clear enough. And although I played with a couple of different exposures on this one, it’s still not quite right — but I’m not sure why. I can’t figure out how to take my pictures from “okay” to “wow”, yanno?<\/p>\n

This was also the week that I learned to love my discards. I was not originally happy with either of these pictures, but they’ve grown on me:<\/p>\n

\n\"40:365<\/a><\/p>\n

\"37:365<\/a><\/div>\n

(as I captioned it on Flickr, nothing says “Happy Birthday Granny” like an armload of laughing grandsons!)<\/p>\n

Here’s the rest of them from the past week or so:
\n\"38:365<\/a>\"39:365<\/a>\"41:365<\/a>\"42:365<\/a>\"45:365<\/a><\/p>\n

I read somewhere that your first 10,000 pictures are your worst. Somehow, that makes me feel better! If the internal meter on my Nikon is to be believed, I’m more than half way there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official, I’m obsessed with my photo-a-day Project 365 now. In addition to carrying a camera with me everywhere, and I mean *everywhere* (you get weird looks coming out of a public washroom with a camera around your neck, that’s all I’m sayin’) and looking at everything in the world around me as if I … Continue reading “Project 365: Week 6 – where the going gets tough!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}