Happy New Year! (1/365)

Happy New Year folks
Hope everyone is enjoying their first day into year 2009. This year I'm going to join the herd and start on project 365. Looking at my photo folders I pretty much saw a daily stream of photos so why not turn this into a committed photography project. The community feels friendly and cheery so I'm definitely going to enjoy meeting other fellow 365'ers along the way. I think most of my 365 photos will be pretty much focused on music, movies, books, things i buy, places i go and food i eat (and then pretty much whatever comes my way).

So yes! Lets start fresh with a nice countdown shot.

This shot was taken literally at midnight, I took a lot of practice runs to ensure the watch was in focus (f4 to be sure and trying out my external flash to give the hand some tone) and it came out pretty good. The problem was obviously showing that it was midnight on my watch, I tried illuminating the watch but that lost all the blue and dark coolness of the shot so there wasn't much to do. I like this shot because it was one of those "you only get one shot at this" shots where if I missed (or in this case mess up with the dark watch face), then I'd have to accept the mistakes and consequences. Hopefully this is what the year is going to be about, not trying to achieve perfection and just experiment with whatever I have already.

Some more rambles about this shot, yes, whilst everyone was partying it up, enjoying fireworks or celebrating with others, I was sat in my room taking this shot. Nobody's home so it was pretty much on my own (and I decided against going to a party to avoid being alone in a crowd). But I made the most of it and spent the rest of the evening watch DIE HARD 4.0 on bluray with the sound system turned up to the max (sorry neighbours!) I stopped halfway to watch the rest in the morning since it was 2am.

Happy new year everyone! If you're a fellow photographer who hasn't done project365, I recommend you do it.