Hey Y'all ! Hope you're having a great day and week! Today is Christmas and the big event of opening presents and family doesn't start until tonight. There is only one blog left for this year as there is only one Friday left. So what a better time to talk about 365 day projects. There are many types of 365 day projects and today I'll go over 3. Now to accomplish these projects you don't need any fancy gear no new camera or film or even a camera at all maybe just your cell phone. But a camera would be easiest. What you produce doesn't have to be winner shots because who can make a winner shot every day? But they should be well thought out and planned to make a successful project. The three projects are Posting Once A Day, Photo Once A Day and Print Once A Day. I have tried and failed at each of these but one I have been successful for at least a few years. So why would you do a project like this? It keeps you shooting! You've heard practice makes perfect and you must put in 10000 hours of work in something to be proficient at it. Well that's why you take on a project like this. It makes you Shoot , Think and Plan about photography. Let's talk about all three of them. flickr

Post a Photo a Day,  This is the one I have been doing for quite a few years. I post once a day to Instagram. Instagram is a social media site that used to be only photography but has become a lot of video but that's where I post. It could be to Flicker, 500px or even Facebook. If you would like to see the kinds of photo's I post  I'll leave a link at the bottom of this blog. To me posting once a day is easier than the other two types of 365 projects. I have tried both and failed miserably. But it is the most visible and acceptable. If you take a photo once a day but no one see it there is less pressure to produce and for me it was easier to fail. To print a photo each day means you have to have lots of photo's on hand to choose from so not only are you taking photo's but you are printing them also and like before no one see's them but you.

Take a Photo a Day, This is a very challenging project. You must have some sort of camera with you all the time and believe me it's a struggle to find something interesting to shoot every day. And with our busy lives just finding the time is a problem. I think that you should have a detailed plan on what to shoot every day maybe a list of 365 things to look for to shoot every day so your eye is always searching for something new. As I have said before I have tried and failed this project a few times. But I think that this would be a fulfilling project and something to talk about. I completed a 365 shoot a day project. Not many can say that. It's like hiking the Appalachian Trail. Many have tried but only a few have done it.

Printing a Photo a Day, To me this may be the hardest to complete. First of all it takes a monetary commitment. Ink and paper aren't cheap. And what happens if your pinter dies? And you still have to take the photo's to supply. But the rewards would be great! 365 prints a year. And if they were 8x10 think of the memories and heirlooms that you could pass on. And you would become a master printer in the process! I can defiantly see the benefits of this Photographers Eye project.

For me the post project is the easiest. I usually shoot maybe once a week or so and that shoot say a photowalk supplies me with photo's . I call it feeding Gram. LOL I have to have enough to keep posting something new.  The shoot once a day is very hard and it could be combined with posting which would make it even harder. The print one is the hardest I think because not only do you have to feed that printer but printing is a skill I really don't have and then there is the ink and paper that you would have to provide which sometimes cost more than the printer. But there you have it three 365 projects that you can do next year. Until next week Get out and Shoot!

Hey if you want to check out my photography go to my instagram account Max Stansell Photography there are over 2000 post there. Here is the link

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