365 Project

The 365 project has been popularized for a few years now. The 365 project is taking a picture every day for 365 days. I’ve followed a few other people’s progression through a full year of taking pictures daily, and it’s really a good challenge to do for personal photography growth. This project is rather daunting. Doing anything regularly for so long and sticking with something is quite tough. New Years resolutions, diet plans, goals, they’re all difficult but doable.

After deciding not to do this project for a few years, I’ve decided to try it out. I’m not going to be too religious about it, but I am giving myself a few rules:

• I plan to finish this by New Years, 2012, which gives me
• 20 vacation days (1.6 days off per month)
• One picture a week has to involve planning. This is open for interpretation, but increases the challenge to make something awesome and not just get by.

What to expect:

• Lots of Canon 5D 50mm pictures. (favorite camera/lens combo)
• A few camera phone pictures. (“the best camera is the one you have with you” – chase jarvis)
• Mostly people pictures. (people pictures are the reason I do photography. :))
• Behind the scenes type pictures.
• Etc. :-)

I will probably recap my 365 project on the blog monthly or bi-monthly, but I won’t be posting here daily. I don’t want my blog to be overrun with this project. :)

You can keep up with this project on twitter @jonyoder or through liking my Jon Yoder Photographer facebook page.

Here is day 1: December 10th, 2011.

Help Portrait behind the scenes. More on this tomorrow. Mark Gregory is the holiday-hat-adorned photographer, with the talented and awesome Cheryl and Maggie behind. Here’s the runner up photo.

 ~ Jon