Photo 150 - a yearlong photo challenge

Okay, I give in! I'll join up for this.
I have many interests and am still working past the nominal state retirement age so I have less daylight time free this time of year than some. I've also got a bit browned off with photography over the last year (hence the lack of pictures posted) but this looks like a good way of kick-starting it - if I can keep it up!

Thanks to Dcap for the idea, Pegelli for running it, and Howard_S and others for some inspiring suggestions. I'm a bit late starting so if it's acceptable, I'll have to run a bit behind until I catch up.

My thoughts are to include:-

1. Telephoto (especially the longer ones that don't get much use)

2 Prime (including macro & semi-macro)

3. Archive (previously unpublished anywhere)

I hope to include subjects I wouldn't normally take (including portraits, architecture and b/w) in order to expand my photography out of the rut it's got into lately, and to use at least one different lens each week (I'm pretty sure I have more than 50 if I include adapted lenses (I've actually reviewed 50 on Dyxum), and I can always pick images from lenses I no longer have for the archive .

The archive pics may include some early non-A/E-mount pics because I had a lot of digital compacts before getting into Sony, and some film transfers if I can get the processes sorted for print and slides. I started photography somewhere around 1970 (with a Zeiss Ikon folding camera!) and the early pics are probably not worth looking at, but we'll see. Maybe I'll include one or two b/w my father took with his Periflex and Miranda F, which will give me an excuse to look through them.
Anyway, thanks for the inspiration guys and I'll try to keep up, even if there are a few delays in posting with holidays/work issues.

@pegelli ... my thread to move to the Challenges section is at https://www.dyxum.com/dforum/topic140648_post1677929.html#1677929

Hi Howard

Sounds like you have a plan. For what it is worth, some of those Peru shots were pretty amazing so I think your challenge last year was pretty successful there

Howard_S wrote: ... - 'prime lens', new photos taken with primes. I'm not sure I can do 50 different lenses in the year (I don't even know if I have 50 lenses!), but I'll aim to produce something every week, the focus being on the photo rather than a lens review - Phil does that so well!

I've got a few you could borrow!

Good idea Pieter. I might class Week 1 as January 4 to 12 (as the 3rd was statutory holiday here), Week 2 as 10-17, Week 3 January 18-24 and so on.

An extended, overlapping Week 1 seems justified given the patchy start to the challenge. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s images.

So are we counting Week 1 as starting on 3 January or starting on 10 January this year? Or should we pick a start date that isn’t Monday? If it was a Saturday we could have begun on the 8th.

Hi @Howard_S

I've been pondering as well (on themes).
I'm thinking of 3 themes.

1. A telephoto theme. (This would let me give the Tamron 150-500 some use this year, and if I'm struggling, squeeze in a shot of the cats with a 135mm or 85mm).
2. A scenic theme- which I would like to stretch to include seascapes, landscapes and other objects/structures that are, well, scenic. I'm hoping seascapes will dominate.
3. A creative theme- this may only be black-and-white, but there's more I want to try with HDR, Panoramas, and even video.

In addition I'm going to give myself 12 wild cards. Shots that I like, but don't fit neatly into any of the themes above.

Edited by Wētāpunga - 12 January 2022 at 07:55