Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
I’m fairly happy with my latest contribution to the 52 Weeks photo pool on Flickr. I feel like I could have done a little better with the lighting and a little more planning, but scheduling and battery problems dictate I do it in a hurry.
I’m glad I accepted the invite, though, as it’s been fun trying to think of different ways to do self-portraits or similar shots. I like taking pictures, but I rarely get the chance (okay — rarely make the time) to take the camera out and get creative. This kind of forces me to do it without it feeling like a chore or that I’m neglecting other things.
It will be fun not only to see my own progression over the remainder of the year, but also how my photography progresses. It’s got me eyeballing photo magazines again, and browsing photo tips. There’s some really cool pics floating around the group, and I’d like to live up to the standard they’re establishing.
on Feb 11th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
What’s this 52 weeks thing?
on Feb 11th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
It’s pretty simple — you post a self portrait every week, or at least a picture that includes some small snippet of you.
Some of the people in the group are also in one called 365 Days, which, as one would guess, is a daily self portrait. That’s a little too ambitious for me.
on Feb 12th, 2007 at 7:27 am
When did it start?
I’m thinking about playing–on my own, of course, as I don’t have a flickr account.
on Feb 12th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Flickr accounts are free, my man! And now that it’s been fully subjugated by Yahoo!, if you have a Yahoo! account you have a Flickr account.
Even without the groups and social functions, it’s a great way to back up your photos (you can mark anything private if you don’t want it publicly available) and a good place to order prints. They’ll mail them or you can pick them up at a Target store. You can also link the images from your website so the bandwidth comes from Flickr and not your hosting account.
Another option is Google Picasa. The Picasa app is a great way to sort and manage your photos on your computer, and then you can use it to upload to a Google Picasa account. I haven’t tinkered with it much because I already have Flickr, but it’s supposed to have a lot of the same functionality.