Here we are at week two of Project 365. I’m starting to get into a routine with this process now. Click through a photo for a more detailed description. You can also keep up on Flickr. I’ll be doing weekly dumps to this blog for posterity, but will update Flickr pretty much nightly.
For the past week I’ve been participating in Project 365 with Frédéric Wenzel (who was the first I saw to blog the idea) and Mike Morgan among others.
Unlike many who are doing it purely for the love of photography for me it seemed like an interesting way to force myself to either look for something interesting/odd/unique/interesting each day, or to go out and find something that would be worth while. Perhaps walk a slightly different route to work, or just notice what I always overlook in the rush of life.
Unlike many I’m also doing it mostly with my standard issue iPhone 4 vs. a fancy $1,000 camera and several hundred dollars worth of lenses. This adds a pretty interesting challenge (low light is tough) but also makes it a bit more easy to just reach in my pocket when opportunity arises.
Week one is done, week two is now under way. I can’t say for certain I’ll last 365 days (that’s a LOOOONG time), or even finish the month.
I will allow myself to hit the archives of photos I have for some days, though I’ll try not to do that too often. I’ve actually got some pretty interesting things just sitting around that I’ve yet to actually publish. They will just get sprinkled in.
As a bonus, I’ve been using this as an opportunity to learn a bit more about post-processing photos.
They are all published to Flickr and so far to this blog. I’ve yet to decide if I will blog them all or just select ones. If anyone has an opinion let me know.
Quick shot of the tree before being taken down. The lighting made it look pretty terrible originally, but I was curious what I could salvage with a little post-processing. I made some adjustments and ended up just getting rid of the color which I felt just wasn’t going to work. The end result is a pretty interesting effect I would have never actually done on my own.
NJ Transit’s newer Bombardier MultiLevel Vehicle (MLV) in NY Penn Station. I’m actually quite pleased how this came out after some post-processing to fix what the poor lighting did to the photo.
Five O’Clock World is a reference to the song by The Vogues, and perhaps remembered by fans of The Drew Carey Show who used it as an intro at one point. It seemed appropriate for the first Friday commute home after a holiday.
Haaren Hall, the former De Witt Clinton High School designed by C. B. J. Snyder is actually a pretty interesting building since it days from before glass curtains were a popular architectural design. I’ll likely take a few more shots of some of it’s details during the day at some point during this project.
To the left you can see the addition they are building, which makes the full thing take up the entire city block.
Time Warner Center from the 58th Street side looking up one of the towers. You can see the Hearst Tower in the reflection.
Sunrise from the parking lot
Due to the snow last week, trash has been piling up in NYC. This pile is almost the height of the van parked next to it. Notice the height of the average person walking by it.
It smells as great as it looks.
Time Warner Center @ Columbus Circle one evening.
My first attempt at some basic color correction of an iPhone 4 photo. This would be much easier if it were RAW and not a JPEG to start with.