{"id":1220,"date":"2010-12-18T14:26:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T21:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2010-12-18T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T21:26:25","slug":"try-reverb10-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Try: #reverb10 Day 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s prompt<\/a>: What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did \/ didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go for it? (Author: Kaileen Elise)<\/p>\n

\"Neighbors\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Try, you say?\u00c2\u00a0 You want me to try?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how I feel about that.<\/p>\n

\"Neighbors<\/a><\/p>\n

I do know how I want to respond to this prompt, though.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to try to learn more about digital photography.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought my camera (Canon EOS Rebel T1i<\/a>) in January of 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 I told myself I wouldn’t worry about how seriously I took it at first.\u00c2\u00a0 I just waned to have fun with it.\u00c2\u00a0 My plan for 2010 was to just intuitively get the measure of the camera while I took pictures of anything and everything around me.<\/p>\n

That worked out okay for me, but I’ve gone about as far as I can on intuition alone.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s time to cowgirl up and actually apply a little effort.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought a couple of photography books this week, and I’m thinking about signing up for some online photography classes.<\/p>\n

I would dearly love to do a Photo Project 365<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 It looks like I am going to finish my first 365 blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m only two weeks away from the end of 2010, and I haven’t missed a day of blogging yet this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows what might happen in the next two weeks, but if I’m ever going to finish a full year of blogging, it will be this year.<\/p>\n

Photography is another issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the time I only go to work and back.\u00c2\u00a0 There isn’t much to photograph at work, and there are only so many pictures of the neighbor’s yard art one photo project can stand.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, it’s hard to carry a camera around everywhere you go. And don’t get me started on my lack of remaining disk space after flooding my Macbook with pictures this past year.<\/p>\n

Regardless, I’m going to try<\/em> to do a 365 photo project for 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 I may have to supplement a good bit with iPhone photos.\u00c2\u00a0 I may also need to find a cheap compact camera I can keep in my office for days I don’t make it to work with the Rebel and its battery.\u00c2\u00a0 Lunch breaks are my best chances to snap around, after all.\u00c2\u00a0 If I don’t get in the habit of using my lunch break to find my photo of the day, I won’t make it through two weeks of daily photography.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’d like to inspire myself by purchasing a number of new lenses and maybe even multiple “play” cameras with different feature sets, but that would be in dreamworld.\u00c2\u00a0 In realworld, I have a budget.\u00c2\u00a0 A budget that grows stricter by the day, it seems.<\/p>\n

I read in Scott Kelby’s<\/a> book that digital photography is one activity in which the equipment does make the skill, and thus it is good and necessary to spend thousands of dollars on lenses.\u00c2\u00a0 That may be, but the skill makes the skill as well.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can’t play a Casio keyboard you picked up for 50 bucks at Walmart, you can’t play a Steinway Grand either.<\/p>\n

I want to learn how to play the camera this year instead of just playing with the camera.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why it’s important to me to do a 365 project.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to walk my way through photography lessons as I collect my daily snapshots.<\/p>\n

The idea of posting at least one photograph every single day is really just a gimmick.\u00c2\u00a0 It isn’t the never missing a day part that matters.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the discipline you get from forming daily practice habits.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to play a piano, you play it every day.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to play a camera, you play it every day as well.<\/p>\n

I’ve done that this year with writing (sort of).\u00c2\u00a0 Now I want to do it with writing and photography.\u00c2\u00a0 And at least if I succeed with the photography part, I’ll have something to write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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