Alright, it’s here! Get pumped and be prepared for a daily dose of some weird shots. But first let me tell you how this journey began. I stumbled across this wonderful photography blog called Viewfinder.
This is the BBC’s photo blog and is ran by very intelligent man named Phil Coomes. It’s smartly written and taken on a variety of photographic topics. It’s both for the BBC’s broad audience, but it also has an insider feel to it. Many of the articles seem to be written for photographers, which I love.
Anyway, Phil Coomes has the side project which he mentions in the blog. He is shooting a bunch of Kodachrome 64, an awesome slide film that is going out of production, and is posting a photo a day for 64 weeks. Get it, 64 on 64. Check it out on the Flickr Stream of it. Kodachrome 64 will no longer be produced soon, and there is only one place in the world that processes it, it’s a crazy story.
Moving on. Coomes is shooting a lot of film, sending it out for processing, then just posting one image a day once he gets in back. My approach is rather different. I am ONLY SHOOTING ONE FRAME DAY with a film camera. I might shoot more assignments on digital or with a different film camera, but at all times I will have a designated film camera with a roll in it that will be used for the project. So a roll of film is lasting me almost a month. So yes, I’ve been shooting one frame a day for a month already.
I hope to show through this work the small photographable things that I pass by each day and that everyone passes by each day. I don’t want this to be a journal of my life, but there will be parts that may seem like that. Some days will be better than others. I get one frame people, give me a break!
Because I’m working on a strict schedule, I can also tell you the exact date that the photo was shot. I’ll be posting that with each shot. After the title of each photo will be a code with the shot’s number in the series and the date. The shots will be posted about 5-6 weeks after they are shot. I’ve built in some time for processing and scanning. I’ll be posting everyday to a Flickr stream as well. You can find it here.
I hope that this project challenges me to find one great shot each day and nail the exposure and composition. And I hope to showcase a number of camera and film combinations. This first shot (and the next 30 or so photos) were shot on a roll of Kodak UC100 film with a Rollei 35.
Alright, sorry that this first post was so long, but I felt that I needed to explain the project. This first shot was made at York Street Cafe in Newport, Kentucky. I was on a advertising shoot there and saw this little scene. The place was crammed with stuff and the weird red letters caught my eye. Hope you all enjoy it.
If this weren’t the first day, the title of this post would definitely be ROAR WEDKQ. Oh, and more more thing, though this shot was the only shot I made of this scene, I have given myself one safety measure for the project. If the shot is made with a really low shutter speed or is shot with a really shallow depth-of-field, I may make two frames of it just to be safe. BUT ONLY TWO FRAMES and they must be of the exact same subject. I will not change the angle I shoot it or anything. And I will only do this with completely stationary subjects, I don’t want to correct for my timing. There have been two or three times since I started this projects that I’ve let myself do this. Basically just to make sure I was steady when shooting or two bracket focusing. This is the only exception to my frame-a-day rules, and if I remember I will try to tell you when those happened. Hope you enjoy this journey with me.
