Toronto Photography Meetup Group

OK, now that Christmas is over it's time for New Year's Resolutions.

For this past year since I'm not a fan of shooting people (I find it uninteresting), I decided I would do something extreme and do a nude shoot...I finally got my nerve to shoot it in August, and although I took 800 pics during the shoot I didn't do anything further after that.

So, what do I do for the coming year (beyond shooting more nude/glamour & general people shoots)...in the past I used to do more artsy/fun stuff on the computer, while today I just do straight image processing, so I want to get back to doing artsy stuff.

I already initiated this by buying Corel Painter; it's a program that has "real media" brushes (oil, watercolour, chalk, etc.) that compliments programs like Photoshop. I can't draw or paint, so to use traditional brushes on photos using a computer is great for me.

Considering I participated in Jim Allen's "It's Elementary Watson" workshop back in June which emphasized doing some drawing/painting daily, this would be my way of implementing this suggestion without getting my hands dirty.

For me it's to actually start shooting people in a controlled environment

For me, to actually go through some of the photos I have sitting waiting for PP....

I've already got a head start on that one Sue. I've spent the past week working on photo's from photo shoot's as far back as April of 2009. I am now working on my Mill project and all of the visits I've done that haven't been prosessed yet.

1) Focus on Quality not Quantity.
2) Find a sexy Zeiss lens
3) Make photography 33% of income
4) Print at least two big prints for myself

I wanted to start on Project 365 last year but gave up by March. This year I will try a weekly and a themed monthly project.

Hopefully a new version of Aperture will be updated in 2010..

I also want a battery grip and a pro lens.

Get published. Get paid. Not necessarily in that order.

Alex IMHO I'm not sure buying equipment or waiting for a new software release counts as resolutions unless you tell us how you are going to use them differently then in 2009.

Anything you had in mind?

Didn't realize this thread was here ... LOL.

1) Start and complete food book project
2) Have 50% of gallery target photos printed out (a total of 15 is what I want, but I only know what 5 of them are to be and have them drawn out)
3) Actually take some vacation photos (which means ... actually go on vacation)
4) Get back to roots, do a handful of car posters

Anyone interested in setting this up so we can review to see how we're doing half year?

a food book project sounds cool
doing a gallery would be interesting
actually trying out that model mayhem would be cool

to get better with using studio lighting.

1) Experiment with printing on different types of paper;

2) Shoot themes weekly;

3) Use mirror lock-up whenever possible; and

4) Attack my backlog of processing, printing, and organizing weekly (time to get at that backlog) .

what does this do? i'm too lazy to google it.

So you want us to spend our time to type the answer out just because you're lazy? I'm too lazy, just WIKI it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_lock-up

I want to add another resolution...not to spend time typing answers that are easily found via a Google search!

To

1) Take more time in composing a shot
2) Travel more to take more shots
3) Enjoy the hobby like how I used to

Resolutions suck in general, but I hope to become proficient in shooting things that don't involve an engine and two wheels.

To get better at photoshopping. But this one wont really make it.

So, get a new body, and lens set.
Get more income from photography.
Since I already have my holidays planned till 2011, research on the holiday list and take different angle shots.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mirror+lock+up

LOL, my friend sent me that site.

While I don't like making resolutions 'cause I end up disappointing myself, this year I think I'm gonna aim for the following:

- do at least 4 big production shoots/projects (one is already underway)
- shoot more (possibly sign up for a GB course in January!)
- attend TPMG outings
- take more photo vacation trips

- I'm going to give the 365 day challenge a try this year
- I have this lofty idea of doing a giant collage of portraits of all of my friends and family for a wall picture.
- Get involved with some actual studio time

haha. i think you just made my day.

...now if i can only find someone to read it aloud for me...

1. Shoot at least 52 rolls of 120

2. Don't buy any more Nikon film bodies.

3. Don't buy any more Canon film bodies.

4. Stay at a maximum of 3 digital bodies at any point in time.

5. Shoot more landscape, portraiture and night long-exposure work.

6. Buy Ken's Konica Minolta Dual Scan IV (before he offers it up for sale to the general public) ;p

Heh, I'll have the money on Thursday.

responded to your flickrmail - thanks! We'll connect later this week.

The usual
Take more photos...

I'm going to shoot at minimum one roll a week of B&W, and hopefully next year I can make some prints myself.

My main goal for 2010 is to shoot film more often - at least once a week. I've neglected my poor Minolta for too long =(

My usual photo resolutions that never seem to work:

1. Finish the photobook.
2. Don't buy any more gear
3. Shoot more
4. Get rid of useless gear

7. Don't buy any more Minolta film bodies... on 2nd thought, disregard my last.