Week 1 - Semaine 1 Louise This project almost didn’t happen.  On december 24, on Christmas eve, I was holding my D700 by the foot of the 70-200 lens, when the foot let go and my camera crashed onto my mother’s ceramic floor in the kitchen.  The body of the camera cracked and the camera didn’t work anymore.  Fortunately, a friend of mine lent me her D7000 so that I could do the shoot this week.  I only hope I get my camera back from Nikon soon! This is my wife who wanted a winter portrait.  We went to the bird feeders in a nearby forest and took quite a few shots, many of which were really nice.  I had a tough time picking my favourite, but settled on this one. =-=-=-=-=-=- Ce projet ne s’est presque pas materialisé.  La veille de Noël, le 24 décembre, je tenais ma caméra par le pied de ma 70-200 quand le pied a lâché et ma caméra est tombée sur le plancher de céramique.  Le boîtier a craqué et la caméra ne fonctionne plus.  Heureusement, une amie m’a prêtée sa D7000 et j’ai pu prendre ma permière photo du projet. Mon épouse voulait un portrait hivernal, donc nous sommes allés aux mangeoires dans la forêt Boucher et nous avons faits plusieurs photos ensemble.  J’étais très heureux des résultats (elle aussi!) et j’ai eu un peu de misère à choisir ma photo de la semaine.  J’ai finalement choisi celle-ci.

Week 1 - Semaine 1

Louise

This project almost didn’t happen.  On december 24, on Christmas eve, I was holding my D700 by the foot of the 70-200 lens, when the foot let go and my camera crashed onto my mother’s ceramic floor in the kitchen.  The body of the camera cracked and the camera didn’t work anymore.  Fortunately, a friend of mine lent me her D7000 so that I could do the shoot this week.  I only hope I get my camera back from Nikon soon!

This is my wife who wanted a winter portrait.  We went to the bird feeders in a nearby forest and took quite a few shots, many of which were really nice.  I had a tough time picking my favourite, but settled on this one.

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Ce projet ne s’est presque pas materialisé.  La veille de Noël, le 24 décembre, je tenais ma caméra par le pied de ma 70-200 quand le pied a lâché et ma caméra est tombée sur le plancher de céramique.  Le boîtier a craqué et la caméra ne fonctionne plus.  Heureusement, une amie m’a prêtée sa D7000 et j’ai pu prendre ma permière photo du projet.

Mon épouse voulait un portrait hivernal, donc nous sommes allés aux mangeoires dans la forêt Boucher et nous avons faits plusieurs photos ensemble.  J’étais très heureux des résultats (elle aussi!) et j’ai eu un peu de misère à choisir ma photo de la semaine.  J’ai finalement choisi celle-ci.

  1. Camera: Nikon D7000
  2. Aperture: f/1.8
  3. Exposure: 1/800th
  4. Focal Length: 85mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 8th January 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 1
    3. Tags Icon #52 Portraits#Photo Project#Portrait#Richard McDonald#Winter
52 People Photos

After much thought and after fully recovering from my Project 365 for 2010, I’ve decided that I need another photographic challenge. So, for 2012, I will be photographing someone every week and posting my favourite here.

Two reasons for this: First, I want to get better at photographing people. Practice makes perfect, as they say. Second, I really enjoy photographing people.

Here are the rules I’m going to abide by:

- As January 1 is a Sunday, my People Photos need to be taken between the Sunday and following Saturday, every single week of 2012. This means that I should be able to post my weekly photo on the following Sunday.

- I may have more than one shoot a week, but a person may only appear once in my project.

That’s it for rules. I’m giving myself a bit of flexibility here… Call it experience :-)

Feel free to let me know what you think as I post these photos. I am certain I have a fair bit of learning to do, and your constructive criticism is more than welcome.

  1. Date Posted Icon 22nd December 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 8
    3. Tags Icon #Photography#Photo Project#Project#Portraiture#People#52 Portraits