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    2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Got any? Let's hear 'em!
    I'm still working on mine, but will finalize and post them here on or around Jan. 1, 2006

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Well, I posted in the other goals thread, but here they are again:

    My goals for 2006:
    1) Learn more about photojournalism. There are some good books out there that will teach the basics, I just need to find these and read them.
    2) Develop my skills in the following areas:
    a.Portrait
    b.Street and Photojournalism
    c.Lighting
    d.Nature and landscaping
    3) Get more clients
    4) Make more money
    5) Get a sticky for the featured photo of the week
    6) Buy a studio lighting kit

    And then the biggest one of all - Get Published.
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Hmm,

    This is a toughie. Maybe sell a few prints, do some "street" people work, and take a whole heck of a lot of pics if I hit Asia in the summer.

    Neat thread,

    Jared

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Guess I will transfer what I put on the other thread to here. Here goes;

    Very cool thread. I was not around for this last year, so I will put mine down for 2006.

    1. Would have to be learn to be a better photographer. Read some books, try to find a local mentor, maybe.

    2. Be more aware of composition, lighting and the other technical aspects out there as I frame a shot.

    3. Keep better track of the info for my pics; f/stop, ISO, shutter speed, lens, mode etc.

    4. Be able to make a minimum of $300 on the side with my photography. This is I think a pretty good goal as I made almost $100 just on my b&w prints of my cabin shots this year.

    5. Work more to getting my own business off the ground. Not sure what all this will entail.

    6. Work with OT on getting together for the Covered Bridge Festival next year.

    7. Hopefully try to be published somehow.

    8. And a big one, work towards getting 1 bigger, better, faster lens.

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Okay here goes, in no particular order:

    1. Sell something...anything. Never have before. I just want to sell enough to pay for the TLR I just bought off Ebay...that's not so much to ask, is it?

    2. Learn about lighting for portraits.

    3. Improve street photography skills (as if I have any to start with).

    4. Get a gallery show and/or get some photos hung in a local coffee shop (probably easier to do in Austin than some other places, but still a bit ambitious, for me.)

    5. Get some good landscape shots from a not so amazing place. All my good landscapes have been the kind you could hardly screw up, so I want to see if I can make something from less (not necessarily from nothing).

    6. Learn a little (modified) zone system with my new TLR.

    7. Post more on this site!

    Okay, there it is in writing, for all to see. I hope I'm still lingering on this site at the end of '06 when someone brings this thread back.

    Paul

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    • Sticky in critique again.

    • Featured photo again.

    • Get at least one photo published (in print).

    • Sell at least one photo - (licence them not outright sale).

    • Look after my gear better.

    • Dropped the 70-200 and the 24-70 this year, the repair bill may be high


    Looking back on 2005 ...

    Learn the EOS 20D and 580 flash so I can operate them without looking (or reading the manual).
    - failed, I still need to read the fine manual from time to time

    Goals: Improve !!
    - I think I achieved that, according to some unbiased comment on PR.com
    Reach the dizzy heights of "sticky" in Critique.
    - achieved that
    - in fact exceeded that

    Sell at least one photo in 2005.
    - only traded, not sold
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Transferred from the other thread:

    Goals for 2006:

    1) add at least one lens.

    2) make the move to PSE

    3) this year I had 4 pictures used on baseball cards, for 2006 the goal is to have 8 used on baseball cards.

    4) this year I had 2 pictures in a national publication, for 2006 the goal is to have more than one picture in more than one publication.

    5) make at least $500 selling my pictures in venues not related to the internet.

    6) become more aware of technique (composition, lighting, focal points, POV, etc.), and challenge myself to learn other photography styles such as portrait, macro, street, etc.

    7) do a photo shoot for Playboy (what the hey--dream big!)

    8) put everything I learn on P & D to good use.

    9) have a definate plan before I shoot.

    10) photograph at least two other sporting events besides baseball.

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Hmmm, 2006 ....

    I would like to get another "L" or two, maybe a 400mm and 600mm

    I'd also like to get a certain project done and rolling

    JS

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Oh yeah. I need to get to work on that project as well.
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Have fun

    Try to get more exhibition acceptances, and work towards a BPE
    (British Photographic Exhibitions) crown award


    try and photograph more British wildlife

    try and produce some photo essays
    Simon, bombadier 1st class

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Wow, you guys have lots of goals. My goal for 2006 is to take more photos. Last year I took ~3000. I'd like to shoot for 5000 this year (pun intended).

    Mike

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    I hope to get some photo shoots outside of friends.
    Make up my mind about my flash lol
    Sell at least one pic.
    Learn more about Photoshop Elements 3
    And shoot atleast 4 days a week

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Well I want to start off the new year and learn my camera front to back, take more pictures since it is digital, continue to learn new things from the great people here and most important...... have fun......

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    I want to make more pictures instead of just taking them.

    I want to shoot much more for the fun of it.

    I want to finally understand light.

    Gotta dream big...
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Platts
    Wow, you guys have lots of goals. My goal for 2006 is to take more photos. Last year I took ~3000. I'd like to shoot for 5000 this year (pun intended).

    Mike
    Whew, 3000 in a year, I wish I could get down to 3,000 a month! I took 1500 in two days of races at the Ft Wayne Convention Center for the indoor races. I could have taken 5000 and not caught everything I wanted to.
    I got my 1D MKII N in the middle of October and it has almost 9,300 photos now....
    JS

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    My main goal is to print alot of my photos rather than just let the memory card build up!
    Another goal is to make an attempt at photojournalism(sp?) and see how that goes!
    And my final goal is to get 1 photo that i can always look at and just stare in awe at no matter how many times i see it!
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    Thats all for now!

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    1. Get a dslr!
    2. Get a dslr!
    3. Get a dslr!
    4. Get a dslr!
    5. Get a dslr!
    .... I think you get it.
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    A few of my goals for this year are:

    To make more money with my photography than I did in 2005.
    To better understand exposure so I don't have to make as many adjustments in post processing. (I made vast improvments in this area in the last year, but there is still room for improvment.)
    I want to upgrade to some L glass, perhaps the 70-200mm f2.8L USM IS for starters.
    Get a decent, workable website up and running.
    I want to get a great shot of a Kestral.
    I want to make my 2007 calendar much better than my 2006 calendar. (I had calendars printed using my pics for Christmas gifts this year.)
    And perhaps get a flash.
    Last edited by mjs1973; 01-02-2006 at 07:12 AM.
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Quote Originally Posted by JSPhoto
    Whew, 3000 in a year, I wish I could get down to 3,000 a month! I took 1500 in two days of races at the Ft Wayne Convention Center for the indoor races. I could have taken 5000 and not caught everything I wanted to.
    I got my 1D MKII N in the middle of October and it has almost 9,300 photos now....
    JS

    I should have been more clear. I want to take 5000 images "for fun". I shoot a half dozen or so weddings a year and that gets me up there by itself.

    Also, by take I mean images that get uploaded to my computer, Which is about 1/3. I do alot of in-camera deleting....probably too much.

    Mike

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    Keeping It Simple

    I think I did pretty well on last year's goals, even if I didn't accomplish all of them. I guess I set my goals pretty high so that I'm not likely to achieve them all.

    For this year:

    1) Make a personal business card

    2) Make a personal Web site

    3) Get something published in *that* magazine, damnit!

    4) Find an outlet for my non-bike outdoor photography

    Thanks for starting this thread up for 2006, maplegirlie. It's a really good one. But I don't think I see your 2006 goals on here yet ;)
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Quote Originally Posted by Sebastian
    I want to finally understand light.
    Be careful with the hallucinogenics
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    Lofty

    Tangible:
    -- Push the envelope further with my art - go all out.
    -- Buy a monopod
    -- Start investing in lights
    -- Experiment more with masks, movement, body paint
    -- Read lots of fairy tales to further the series
    -- Get involved with a Manhattan co-op gallery
    -- Compile updated, professional portfolio and submit to several pre-selected
    galleries in Scottsdale

    Fantastical:
    -- Inherit millions from distant, rich, heretofore unknown relative and be able to create full time instead of working my +rather unpleasant+ job
    -- Get discovered by some rich patron and be able to create full time instead of working my +rather unpleasant+ job

    Happy New Year!

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    Re: Keeping It Simple

    Quote Originally Posted by Photo-John
    Thanks for starting this thread up for 2006, maplegirlie. It's a really good one. But I don't think I see your 2006 goals on here yet ;)
    I have only one, and it is to photograph 100 different dogs.

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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    Quote Originally Posted by Sebastian

    I want to finally understand light.
    Light as a wave or light as a particle??
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    Re: 2006 - Photo Goals & Resolutions for the New Year

    My goals this year is basically to take more pictures. I have the enthusiasm, but I always put it off--not anymore! ;) Perhaps, by the end of the year, begin to make a portfolio of all my favourite shots I've taken so far.
    "You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you."--Dorothea Lange

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