Photo 150 - a yearlong photo challenge

I like the idea, but I am afrraid it will be too much with my Day Prime challenge 'commitments'.

So nice to see folks wrap up the 2021 Photo 150 challenge, and there is energy to start up a 2022 initiative!

I fell off the 2021 Photo 150 project about 1/3 of the way in … for me, it was so hard to maintain that schedule. I have learned that I take pics when I want to, no more, no less. I can't let the calendar dictate my personal pace in the long run.

I still need to spend a lot of time organizing my old archives. I was hoping to attack that more in 2021 with the help of this challenge, but sadly, no, LOL.

The Dyxum Postcard Exchange is more my pace, or a shorter challenge like Week 50mm.

I'll make sure I poke my head into the 2022 Photo 150 Challenge thread from time to time. Happy New Year, and good luck to the 2022 Photo 150 challengers!

pegelli wrote: @Phil Wood Let me know when you've opened your challenge thread (Open or Themed views) and I'll move it to the challenges subforum.

It seems you found it!

I guess I need something of a focus so I am minded to do a simpler Project 150.

Three pics a week.

1. Blast from the past - I got a box of slides down from the attic over Christmas and took some quick shots of some with a lightbox and macro lens. The results are not as bad as I feared.

2 & 3 Prime of the week. I don't have 50 primes, but I do have a lot - which means that most of them don't get much use. So it's time to get them out and put them to work. I will commit to using them all at least once and none more than twice. To make it less stressful than 2021 two shots in this theme. I may also piggy-back on any prime challenge (eg Oktoberfest / Week 50). To make it a little less straightforward one in colour and one B&W.

Thanks @Pegelli

I'm open to giving it another try this year with Maarten.
I haven't decided what my weekly themes will be, but I would like to continue the '2 week' break rule of the first challenge, and I'm going to propose 12 'wild card' photos over the year as well. Anything from archive or something unrelated to the original themes.

It is a little harder planning anything in this Pandemic world so I may need to use these options if we go into a lockdown or I get ill etc,

I'll be starting a new challenge. Anybody else?

Again, three topics where I be posting a weekly shot. This year my three topics will be:

- street photography; In its wides sense possible. A thema I like and feel comfortable with. My challenge is that the picture has to be taken with a 35mm or smaller perspective & has to have people in them.

- ultra wide; Making more use of my 15 & 21mm lenses. I own them, but only 10% of all the images in my library are taken with wider perspective as 35mm. So the challenage really is just to get them off the shelf and find out more about when and how this perspective really shines.

- linear perspective; I want to learn more about this form of composing an image. Not sure how far I'll get through this learning curve, but I'll like to give it a go.

I've waited until today to pop back to dyxum to see how this has progressed. So far I've just looked through this 150 chat thread - it looks like I've got some photo viewing to catch-up on later this week huh! Really am very pleased to see this project/idea had legs and got some momentum to it.

To address a couple of comments in here about my exit - two of the mods know why I stepped out of the forum, which I decided not to post about (but I might add some notes to the treatment of new members thread). I'm sorry that I just evaporated on y'all and I should have at least popped in from time-to-time. Or mentioned that I'd bailed. Personally, I know that some projects (like this) work well in a group. I'm sure I only managed to complete my 366x back in 2008 because of the group of people I shot along with on flickr (I was non-KM/Sony then). That photo buddy or peer group thing really helps. Dyxum has that real personal vibe to it which is super valuable.

Rewind to mid-June 2020, I started a 365 on some random Monday (the day my RX100 IV arrived). Something I'd wanted to re-boot since 2009. And I kept it going for just over 6 months. It lacked direction though, and theme, and worse (perhaps?) I wasn't posting the shots ... so I forced myself to stop and re-think. Re-thought things and focused on the soon approaching "01-Jan". Jumped back in here and started a conversation about "alternatives to the 365x idea" - which is kinda where this was hatched.

As mentioned by Art, I also started a new 365x on 01-Jan this year and had bags of energy for it. It was (just) part of my 150. And at the same time I was learning Instagram. Yeah - my mind was scattered all over the place. I shot daily in 4:3 format on my iPhone in Jan/Feb/Mar without missing a day. Apr/May/Jun I shot all square on my X-T3. The A7II really didn't work out for me at all (and it sold on eBay today). Getting past the 6 month point, up to date with my edits, I decided to pause IG (ahem) 'for a month' in July ... and totally forgot to get back to it. I then stopped shooting daily. Kinda needed a rest.

So, two half 365s do not a 365 make. Or something like that.

During my Apr/May/Jun time on IG I found some images that took me by surprize. Sure there are some stunning shots on the gram, a lot of over-processed garbage too, but then I found this real strange corner or non-conventional oddness and it caused me to completely re-think what and why I shoot. A mix of minimalism but also some messy stuff, very little post processing (which is just what I like) - real tough to explain.

It kinda broke my brain. And I love the feeling of not understanding what to do about it. So, without this (150) and that (IG rabbit hole) I'd not be shooting the project I'm about to delve into. It is unlikely to be of interest here so I'll not promote/spam it - it'll be a world of weird and I'm not expecting to come out the other end any more normal than I've never been. It might be on the other side of the art/photography border. Who knows?!

I'm really glad this continued here without me. I have a bundle of photo project ideas that I should make a blog about (or perhaps just a dCap's photo project ideas thread in here).

Having shot quite a few projects, week long, month long, year long, and a couple of failed 365s (after my proper completed 366x) ... I really like the idea of two project types:
- a week long daily theme thing (e.g. one lens or the one item we did in here)
- a non-calendar term weekly project (e.g. a classic car restoration that might work as a 37x week 1-3x image photo project)