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[roguesylph]

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I used to spend a lot of time on photography.  In high school, I had a fully manual Pentax K-1000 film camera that saw me through several levels of photography classes.  When people ask “where were you when the 9-11 attacks happened?” I clearly remember that I was where I was

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[roguesylph]

I was musing last night about what it would be like to restrict oneself to a single photo a day for a year. Seems easy for a lot of days, but what if you restricted yourself to ONE shot of important events or beautiful subjects? What would you pick? Taking a bunch of shots is so easy now that everyone's digital, but I think I'm sort of at the young end of people who actually remember what it was like to shoot film and actually think about every shot.

As for people: I'd have an easier time of it if more people *wanted* to be photographed. So many people say "oh eek, I don't photograph well - get that camera away from me!" or take a photo that I think captures them really well as a person (as opposed to simply making them attractive) and say "oh ugh, I hate how I look in photos. Please burn that!" I did a little bit of portrait study a few months back because my MIL asked me to take the author photo for the cover of her book. It's pretty interesting, but I'm still in the mode where I need great natural light and a lot of time to turn out a couple good shots, and a lot of people aren't really willing to sit for a couple hundred photos just for fun... :)