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. :)
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.
June 5th, 2009 | filed under:photo | tags:haircut, phtoshop, project |
So I had this idea of doing a before and after pictures for when I got a haircut. Here’s what I came up with:
Best version, probably.
This is the best that I came up with. I didn’t put a whole lot of time into it, and when taking self-portraits for it, I kinda got impatient, so I didn’t have too much to work with picture-wise. It was fun to do though. Although it might look a bit creepy, I don’t really mind how it turned out. :-)
The steps:
I started off with this (v1), with no editing at all.
Then, I color corrected it a bit, and cloned the two together to come up with this, which is the picture that made it to facebook, which I guess makes it the official picture. =P
So I know that the eyes are messed up, this is because I didn’t have a haircut picture in which my head was turned the exact same way as the other picture. This made it so that while most everything else lined up, the eyes (which happen to be the most important) were too far apart. My solution to this was to use the eyes from the uncut picture to go onto the haircut picture. While this kinda makes other things not look right, I still like it better. Version 3 (also pictured above).
In other news, I fail at posting on a regular basis.
I know there are a decent amount of quirks that I couldn’t totally iron out, but as it being my first real project, I think it turned out pretty neat.
From the description I added on vimeo and youtube:
Messing around with a slideshow-type effect in After Effects. I just did a really rough pen mask (then feathered) in Photoshop, imported each 3-layer file into After Effects, and then went from there. All this took me a ridiculous amount of time to get to my liking (mostly), but I definitely learned a lot through the process. I would just never do it for a slideshow unless I was paid by the hour. :) Also, I wish Think Different” wasn’t an Apple slogan. I don’t mind the company (I like their products), but I chose to avoid that phrase in the video for moral reasons. ;)
