Dear friend,
As the new year is coming up, here are some new years resolutions we can apply to our photography:
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- Don’t compare ourselves to any other photographers. Don’t care about if we have more or less followers or likes when compared to other photographers.
- Idea: Uninstall Instagram from our phones for all of January, and focus on making photos for ourselves.
- Rule: Don’t leave the house without your camera around your neck or wrist.
- Idea: To worry less about gear, only shoot with your phone for the entire month of January.
- Make your own photography blog. Use WordPress.org, WordPress.com, or portfolio with smugmug.com
- Buy a nice photo book for yourself at least once a month (12 books for the entire year).
- Plan one international photography travel adventure for yourself this year (Kyoto, New Mexico, Tokyo, New Orleans, New York, Lisbon, Prague, Saigon, HÃ Ná»™i, are my favorites). See upcoming ERIC KIM EXPERIENCES
- Shoot at least one artistic selfie of yourself everyday for a year #honorthyselfie
- Only use one camera, one lens, for the entire year.
- Only shoot film for a month (FILM NOTES)
- Make photos more like a child; don’t take yourself or your photos too seriously.
- Make one photo album of your family (printed on 4×6 prints).
- Have one small exhibition show at a local coffee shop with 5 prints.
- Sell 1 print of your work for $99.
- Do a photography project of your own home.
- Do more personal photography; photography your loved ones, friends, coworkers, your kids, partner, and your parents.
- For an entire year, study one master photographer, once a week. Study Learn From the Masters, and pick up a copy of MASTERS to inspire you. To get started, study Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sergio Larrain, and Josef Koudelka.
- Shoot only in jpeg for a year year to not worry about post processing, but to focus more on shooting.
- Look at all your photos and make a set of images of your 10 most epic pictures.
- Seek to simplify yet also make your photos more dynamic.
- Rebrand yourself as a “Visual artist“, and learn how to draw, paint, and create other forms of visual art.
- Make a video slideshow of your favorite photos, and add music to it (use imovie and garage band) and upload it to YouTube.
- Make your own photography YouTube channel.
- Shoot at only one arm length away for an entire month (.7 meter challenge).
- Treat photography like walking meditation, and realize that photography is very important to your mental health.
- Only shoot the color red for a week.
- Experiment making underexposed dramatic photos at -1 or -2 exposure compensation, and experiment making overexposed +1 or +2 photos.
- Photograph your morning commute everyday for 3 months, and edit it down to your best 12 photos, and publish it as a series.
- Make a PDF ebook of your favorite photos and share it for free.
- Upload your best pictures to Flickr, and enable your viewers to download the full resolution version.
- Experiment with making short films. Study Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa for inspiration.
- If you’re a black and white shooter, only shoot color for a year. And vice-versa.
- For a year, only make photos that put a smile on your face.
Lets make this year great!
Smile,
ERIC
Conquer your fears and meet new peers:
- Jan 27-28: LONDON / Conquer Your Fears in Street Photography (December 31 deadline for early—bird registration)
- Feb 21-22: NYC / Conquer Your Fears in Street Photography – New
- Feb 24-25: NYC / Dynamic Street Photography Composition Workshop – New
- May 2-5: KYOTO-UJI / Zen Creative Photography Experience
- May 9-13: TOKYO / Travel Street Photography Experience
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