thedailyshoot

22 Aug

Make a photograph of something made out of glass. Be sure to go for interesting reflections or highlights. #ds280
No photo

23 Aug

Today's number is 5. Make a photo that illustrates the number in some way, either literally or abstractly. #ds281
No photo

24 Aug

Make a low key photo today with lots of dark areas. You might need to use exposure compensation to make it work. #ds282
No photo

25 Aug

Make a photo of a tool today. Screwdriver. Pliers. Computer. What's the tool you find most important on a daily basis? #ds283
No photo

26 Aug

Make a photograph with soft light today. Try to almost totally eliminate shadows on your subject. #ds284
No photo

27 Aug

Make a photograph of something metallic today. Put the emphasis on texture and light. #ds285
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28 Aug

Use repetition to create an interesting photograph today. Grids, patterns, or a series of lines will all do the trick. #ds286
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what is this?

The Daily Shoot is the brainchild of James Duncan Davidson and Mike Clark. Each day they post a message on Twitter which describes some type of photo to make. These ideas are meant to inspire people to go out and make photos.

If you are interested in participating, just follow @dailyshoot on Twitter. Reply to the daily assignments on Twitter with a link to your photo. These photos are my attempts at the various daily challenges. I put my photos up on Flickr but you can use whatever you want.

I have really been enjoying this since I love to make photos, but have been in a bit of a slump lately and this incentivizes me to bring out the camera (or even use my iPhone) and get a bit creative. It feels great.

watch this space

This page is an attempt to mashup the instructions on Twitter and my photos on Flickr. But I have other plans involving bringing other people's photos. I know that Duncan has mentioned wanting to do something like this as well. In the mean time if you are putting your photos on Flickr, you can use machine tags. The form I've been using is: dailyshoot:date=20091120 Pulling in all the photos with this form of tag will likely be my first order of business.

Other plans

  • Set up proper @font-face so everyone can enjoy it the way it should be
  • Add a calendar to jump to different weeks
  • Automatically parse the instructions from Twitter with a cron job
  • Add a page for each day in the daily shoot with multiple photos, hopefully from multiple people