Replying to 1 CAMERA, 1 LENS, 1 FILM STOCK, 1 YEAR

Let's post up ideas to get the ball rolling on this. I think this is fucking rad.

Here's the rules I would propose.



1. Use only one camera body, only one lens, only one film stock. Choose wisely (or, you know, roll dice for it) because you HAVE to stick to it for the whole year

2. Start date of January 1.

3. On the last day of each month (Or close to it) we post 5 photos each in a thread. Only 5, to keep the edit tight.

4. The only discussion allowed in the thread is about photos that are posted in the thread. No other discussion will be permitted!

5. Be intentional. Tell a story, or show us something about yourself, or intentionally take crappy snapshots, or develop a theme, or choose an object that appears in every photo. Just be intentional... give your work some consideration. Dive a step deeper than you have before

6. This one is debatable, but I think it's worth including - since we are keeping so much constant, let's also keep constant the processing. Don't run a standard process on one roll, cross process another, and push another 5 stops to see what happens. I think the processing should be a constant too.


To account for developing times, scanning times, etc, I think it would be wise to have the 5 be selected just from photos taken and processed and scanned between the post date and the last time you posted, rather than saying "photos must posted on Jan 31 must be shot between Jan 1 and Jan 31," so we don't miss the chance to post those that might have been shot on Jan 29th. Know what I mean? This would also help those of us that are super busy and might miss a posting deadline, but have some awesome shots from that time period. You don't get extra photos and you still have to post no more than 5 only on the last day of the month.

The reason I don't want to just do a constant stream is that then we will end up with the potential for a huge dump of photos all at once, some may be overlooked, etc. It will just be less organized and less of a discussion as new work might change the conversation away from older shots posted before they have time to be really discussed.



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