wlewisiii
Just another hotel clerk
I have decided that along with what ever other shooting I do, with whatever other cameras and lenses, I use, I am going to try to take at least one photo a day this year with my Leica M 240 using my Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton. It's a good quality versatile lens and I'm more interested in the discipline of forcing myself to shoot daily. I expect to continue to use all the other cameras and so forth but to use that one as a "no excuses" daily driver.
Anyone else have any resolutions or plans for the new year?
Anyone else have any resolutions or plans for the new year?
Rayt
Nonplayer Character
Sell unused gear and shoot more film.
Archiver
Veteran
New year's resolution? 8k only, baby!
But seriously, I want to pay more attention to exposure and composition in my images, and streamline my gear practices so that I'm just using a simple set of gear for any given shoot. I've experimented with a lot of gear combinations for different work situations and I intend to stick with what works this year.
I also resolve to start and finish projects in a timely manner. Sometimes, things can drag out, or I'm catching up on backlog and building up more backlog while finishing prior. So this year, I'll start processing as soon as something has been shot, and finish in a reasonable timeframe.
But seriously, I want to pay more attention to exposure and composition in my images, and streamline my gear practices so that I'm just using a simple set of gear for any given shoot. I've experimented with a lot of gear combinations for different work situations and I intend to stick with what works this year.
I also resolve to start and finish projects in a timely manner. Sometimes, things can drag out, or I'm catching up on backlog and building up more backlog while finishing prior. So this year, I'll start processing as soon as something has been shot, and finish in a reasonable timeframe.
Freakscene
Obscure member
I was thinking 120 lp/mm. Ha ha.
Tom R
Established
- Increase the number of "keepers" per roll. Do this by (1) adhering to my notebook of goals and locations and (2) spending more time planning shots and sequences at each location. This is less a matter of money than time: it takes me much more time to choose from a sequence of very similar images than to choose one image from a sequence of obviously different images.
- Expand my horizon of potential themes.
- Spend more time with local arts organizations and artists in order to increase critical feedback and to make more contacts leading to showing more work.
skopar steve
Well-known
My resolution is to shoot a roll a week, using a different camera every week in rotation. Some of these cameras see no use for a year or so.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Digitize as many photography magazines as possible and sort my slides.
Archiver
Veteran
Sometimes the storage part can be as important as the creative part.
agentlossing
Well-known
I think the area I can most stand to improve is the expectations I go out to shoot with. I haven't been willing to experiment, to see outside the box or to be playful with my compositions. So I want to see differently this year. That's nebulous and hard to quantify, but there you go.
Yokosuka Mike
Abstract Clarity
Normally a New Year’s resolution is about doing more or doing less, self improvement, tackling a hard project, or doing something you don’t want to do but needs to be done… the list goes on.
I can usually come up with a meaningful New Year’s resolution quickly and easily; but not this year. I’m good where I’m at. I don’t need more or less of anything. My wife and I are active retirees, we travel and I take pictures. I go out almost everyday with a camera and walk over 10,000 steps and take pictures as I go. Eating lunch in a restaurant that serves good food at a reasonable price is something that I do as often as possible. My photography is probably about as good as it’s going to get and I’m okay with that.
I guess my resolution is to be as happy as I can and do more of the same.
All the best,
Mike
I can usually come up with a meaningful New Year’s resolution quickly and easily; but not this year. I’m good where I’m at. I don’t need more or less of anything. My wife and I are active retirees, we travel and I take pictures. I go out almost everyday with a camera and walk over 10,000 steps and take pictures as I go. Eating lunch in a restaurant that serves good food at a reasonable price is something that I do as often as possible. My photography is probably about as good as it’s going to get and I’m okay with that.
I guess my resolution is to be as happy as I can and do more of the same.
All the best,
Mike
Archiver
Veteran
Daido Moriyama described himself as a stray dog, wandering the streets and alleys of Tokyo. Sometimes he would stop at a bar, have a drink, then wander out again to take photos. I do something similar when out on a photo walk, except with hot chocolate or lemonade! Sometimes I'll stop for sushi or a roast pork banh mi, take photos of my food, then keep going.
Stay happy and healthy!
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
I used to make stops for food and beer but my pictures became increasingly boring after a couple of pints.
nightlight
Well-known
Reduce my backlog of unprocessed film , bordering on 10 years.
Make more time to see expos - instead of reading about them retrospectively.
Figure out what I want to say with my photos <- a tall ask!
Make more time to see expos - instead of reading about them retrospectively.
Figure out what I want to say with my photos <- a tall ask!
DownUnder
Nikon Nomad
Amazing how one or two glasses of good red can change my photographic output - not always for the better.
Truly, I see resolutions I made myself in the past, in almost every post in this thread. Most of which I have recopied and carried over on my new NYR lists every January... I find great solace in the Buddha's saying that it is better to travel well than to arrive.
Anyway, on my 2024 list, here we go. Resolved to get rid of more gear I no longer use, downsize, sell maybe four little used cameras and buy one up to date one I can use with my collection of lenses. All Nikon, in my case. But then I check the Nikon Zf prices - or for that matter any price in the Nikon mirrorless range - in Australia, and think, wow... on to next year. Another resolution is to buy more lottery tickets.
Resolved to actually clean up the several thousand folders I have archived of all my Asian photographs since 1970, clean up, cull, keyword and caption, and set up the web site I so carefully maintained (for business clients only, mind you) until 2015 or 2016, and then gave up and let go.
Maybe loosen it up a little, add some text, a few travel stories, and open it up to casual viewers, not only stock photo clients.
Resolved to buy no more lenses, which I've managed to break every year since 2013. Last year's prize acquisition was a beaut Nikon D 300/4 in mint condition, it came my way via a private sale and at a price I thought I couldn't pass up. I do console myself with the thought that if I have to I can easily sell it for 2x-3x what I paid for it. But of course I won't, being me.
Resolved not to keep that 300/4 telephoto in my camera cabinet with the Nikon 180/2.8 and the 85/1.8 I bought with the same intent some years ago. The '85 has been used maybe four times and alas, regrettably, the '180 not at all. So two more resolves there, to be added to the list. Which is already much too long.
Resolved to actually visit countries in Asia other than the two or three I've hung out in since I retired in 2013. Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Sarawak, Sabah - admittedly the last three are all part of one country, Malaysia, but they are so distinctively different in all things that I've tended to regard them as three separate entities. I have long wanted to go back to Vietnam, Laos an Cambodia, notably to revisit Angkor War which I saw in the 1970s and have always wanted to return to, altho recent visitors there have told me it is now horribly commercial and as bad as Bali at its worst. Still, the lure is strong, time is passing, I'm older and I feel older and I fear the coming day when I realize my 'get up and go' has 'got up and went'. Already my Nikon D700s and D800s are getting too heavy for me to cart about, even with only one lens in a backpack which is how I best enjoy traveling.
Like Yokosuka_Mike I too think my photography has reached the point of being as good as it will ever get. I also have the nagging thought that maybe I've said everything I want to in my photography, and the time is approaching for me to either significantly slow down in my shooting, or retire from it altogether. I am now in what I reckon will be my last Five Year Plan in this life, after which time it will be the rocking chair, one of our house cats on my lap to keep me warm as well as company, and old movies of YouTube and newer movies on Netflix. Ditto good music on Spotify. Life has its limits and I may be there.
But then I think, my Five Year Plan means I have a few more years to pass the buck and delay the inevitable on all my resolutions to do with photography - and the rest. This thought greatly cheers me up and keeps me going.
Truly, I see resolutions I made myself in the past, in almost every post in this thread. Most of which I have recopied and carried over on my new NYR lists every January... I find great solace in the Buddha's saying that it is better to travel well than to arrive.
Anyway, on my 2024 list, here we go. Resolved to get rid of more gear I no longer use, downsize, sell maybe four little used cameras and buy one up to date one I can use with my collection of lenses. All Nikon, in my case. But then I check the Nikon Zf prices - or for that matter any price in the Nikon mirrorless range - in Australia, and think, wow... on to next year. Another resolution is to buy more lottery tickets.
Resolved to actually clean up the several thousand folders I have archived of all my Asian photographs since 1970, clean up, cull, keyword and caption, and set up the web site I so carefully maintained (for business clients only, mind you) until 2015 or 2016, and then gave up and let go.
Maybe loosen it up a little, add some text, a few travel stories, and open it up to casual viewers, not only stock photo clients.
Resolved to buy no more lenses, which I've managed to break every year since 2013. Last year's prize acquisition was a beaut Nikon D 300/4 in mint condition, it came my way via a private sale and at a price I thought I couldn't pass up. I do console myself with the thought that if I have to I can easily sell it for 2x-3x what I paid for it. But of course I won't, being me.
Resolved not to keep that 300/4 telephoto in my camera cabinet with the Nikon 180/2.8 and the 85/1.8 I bought with the same intent some years ago. The '85 has been used maybe four times and alas, regrettably, the '180 not at all. So two more resolves there, to be added to the list. Which is already much too long.
Resolved to actually visit countries in Asia other than the two or three I've hung out in since I retired in 2013. Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Sarawak, Sabah - admittedly the last three are all part of one country, Malaysia, but they are so distinctively different in all things that I've tended to regard them as three separate entities. I have long wanted to go back to Vietnam, Laos an Cambodia, notably to revisit Angkor War which I saw in the 1970s and have always wanted to return to, altho recent visitors there have told me it is now horribly commercial and as bad as Bali at its worst. Still, the lure is strong, time is passing, I'm older and I feel older and I fear the coming day when I realize my 'get up and go' has 'got up and went'. Already my Nikon D700s and D800s are getting too heavy for me to cart about, even with only one lens in a backpack which is how I best enjoy traveling.
Like Yokosuka_Mike I too think my photography has reached the point of being as good as it will ever get. I also have the nagging thought that maybe I've said everything I want to in my photography, and the time is approaching for me to either significantly slow down in my shooting, or retire from it altogether. I am now in what I reckon will be my last Five Year Plan in this life, after which time it will be the rocking chair, one of our house cats on my lap to keep me warm as well as company, and old movies of YouTube and newer movies on Netflix. Ditto good music on Spotify. Life has its limits and I may be there.
But then I think, my Five Year Plan means I have a few more years to pass the buck and delay the inevitable on all my resolutions to do with photography - and the rest. This thought greatly cheers me up and keeps me going.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
2024 Goals and Resolutions:
- Recover from the injuries that 2023 wrought on me.
- Return to my former fitness and activity levels.
- Continue making photographs as I have in the past.
- Create and start work on a book project or two.
- Cancel plans to continue on moribund projects.
- Sell/give away photographic equipment I no longer need or use.
- Hope to survive through to 2025, and continue.
Onwards! G
- Recover from the injuries that 2023 wrought on me.
- Return to my former fitness and activity levels.
- Continue making photographs as I have in the past.
- Create and start work on a book project or two.
- Cancel plans to continue on moribund projects.
- Sell/give away photographic equipment I no longer need or use.
- Hope to survive through to 2025, and continue.
Onwards! G
x-ray
Veteran
My resolution for 2024 is 60 lines / mm 😁
wayben
Established
My resolution is to shoot more film, using various cameras that have sat around unused for too long.
raid
Dad Photographer
I really don't know of my specific resolutions other than trying to stay happy and healthy and wish all my family the same. Same to you too!
Photographically speaking, I will try again using the M10 for monochrom JPG images. It is new to me. I am used to colors.
Photographically speaking, I will try again using the M10 for monochrom JPG images. It is new to me. I am used to colors.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
A good friend of mine, a fine photographer, has always worked with color before. He impulsively bought a Q2M and is just starting to see in B&W for the first time. It's very exciting to see what he is beginning to produce—he has a wonderful eye!
So ... go for it, commit to it and find a new vision!
G
zane0777
Established
A couple of years ago I finished scanning the family photos, around 7,000 total. This year I plan to go through them, pull out around 150 of the best, and make a photo book. I will need to improve my photo editing skills before doing that. I'm hoping by October to have the book ready for printing.