My Life - Once A Day

[amalthya]

bananapouch read Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way and decided to make a community -- mylife_onceaday. I thought it was a great idea and liked the idea of looking back of a year of my life in photos. Here are the community guidelines for anyone interested in joining! I'd love some of my friendslist to participate!

This is a moderated community inspired by Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way.

Community Rules:
1. To join the community, you must be approved by one of the mods.

2. You are not required to post a photo every day, every month or at all.

3. Every member is required to post in intro when you join the mylife_onceaday so that every one else knows who you are and that you are not a troll.

4. If you choose to not post photos, you are encouraged to make this community more interactive by commenting. Reading comments to photos are one way for photo-posters to stay motivated to keep posting every day!

5. You are not required to post any sort of descriptive blather about the photo, but feel free to explain why you took it, what it means to you, and what it is!

6. Please tag every photo post with your user name and the date you posted, so that members can go back and review posts by a certain user or on a certain day. Add additional descriptive tags if you prefer, but make sure you have the minimum name and date.

7. If you can't get your photo posted on the appropriate day, but you still want to post a photo that you took on that day just correctly tag it with the day you took the photo and your username.

8. Try to keep your photo to a reasonable size. The standard flickr 375x500 is a good suggestion.

9. If you post more than one photo in an entry, use an LJ cut after the first photo. If you want to post more than one photo a day, try to put them all in one post with all but your first one behind an lj cut. It isn't an issue to post more than once a day, just don't go crazy.

10. Don't be assjacks and make negative comments. If you don't have something nice to say, STFU. If you have suggestions or advice for a poster, be nice about it.



Additional Ideas from Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way

Why do it?
Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:

Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)


Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.


Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

Tips on How to Do It
Here are five tips on how to create your own Project 365:


1. Bring Your Camera Everywhere
Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.


2. Make Posting Easy
You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.


3. Vary Your Themes
Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.


4. Tell a Story
Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.


5. Don’t Stop, No Matter What
This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.

Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

N.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!


6. Post early, post often
Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

Comments

[gatsbys-regret.livejournal.com]

You know, I had a hell of an intense dream in which you were involved, the night before last. The bitch of it is, I don't remember thing one about the plot, but I believe we were a couple.

*shrug* Got me.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

That's hot :D And I know what "plot" really means!

[drdelirium.livejournal.com]

Sent my request to join! I don't know if I'll be able to keep up the once-a-day goal, but it's still a nice idea behind the project.

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

So glad that you joined :D and don't worry about posting every day!

[leighbug]

i'm going to try this! i tried doing a journal entry every day...yep, lasted about a week!

but i like taking pictures. so i'm going to try. just for you! :D

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Even if you don't manage every day, I'll look forward to seeing your posts :D