Topic: New Year Resolves

[Karl]

Resolution now sounds unpleasantly digital but I'd love to know whether you make a photographic related 'resolve/promise' each year. I do. Some have happened, some haven't . Some have morphed into other things or change direction. 2007's was to sell a print. Lawdy it was hard to even get started. By late October I had made one attempt via an open art exhibition, I failed, but a friend wanted it as a wedding gift so I saved some money. The resolve continues and I add to it...

Anyway, mine for 2008 is to get my slowly acrrued large format camera parts into a working piece and make some big pics.

What's yours?

[moominsean]

well, my biggest resolution is to finish school this spring and survive the next six months. but after that, i do want to focus on some photographic promotion, such as entering shows and contests. i'd like to get an enlarger, too.

[Janet_P]

I recently gave in my notice at work, which has been on my list of to do's all year. I leave at the end of Feb 2008 so I think my new resolution will be to get my ar*e in gear and earn some money from my photography.
It's always good to have a goal.

[MarkBurley]

Mine is to get used to printing in a darkroom. I finally got my darkroom together after eighteen months of gathering bits and pieces.

I am now on print number 34! I still can't match the results I get from scanning. But I am getting closer.

But then it is difficult toning a scanned image. But to not have banding and lines in an image - what a joy!

Hopefully by the time I get to print number 134 I might be a little better at it...

Mark

[astrobeck]

I also make resolves  that involve photography.
Mine this year is to devote more time and PRACTICE to pinhole photography.  I have noticed that when I travel and haul various cameras around, it's the pinhole that keeps finding its way out of the pack and into the field with me the most often.

It's also the camera that gives me the most frustration and pleasure depending upon how things are working out that day.
So, more pinholephilia for me.

I even changed my blog up just so I would stay on track.   

One of my other goals for 2008 is to start making hand crafted prints.
Becky

[MarkBurley]

Forgot resolution number two...

Get used to printing platinum and palladium with a self-coat process. David Chow now has a lot to apologise for. Once he showed me how to print I was totally and utterly hooked!

Only problem is someone else has already reminded me that I ought to learn to run first before trying to lead the olympic team! I guess that they have an awfully good point, I really should learn how to print silver gelatin first.

But then again I still feel it would be good fun to compare results side by side...

What do you all think?

Mark

[outofcontxt]

Let's see... hmmmmm... I guess mine are to try to shoot more, be more judicious in which competitions I should submit to (no more Center for Fine Art Photography or jen beckman for a long while), get my portfolio reviewed (already checked for April), get through that massive reading list that Keith Carter gave us at his June workshop, experiment with at least one alt process and generally continue to push the envelope with my photography.

Aside from these resolutions, my wish is to be represented by a gallery which will both love and promote my work. Well, a guy can always dream, can't he?

[traskblueribbon]

First is to put the reins on my camera obsession and focus on actual photography; mainly in these methods  pinhole, Polaroid, and MF.

Second is to finish my Polaroid book by April 1st.

[sausage100uk]

There are loads for me....To TRY & find some time to have a few decent sessions in the Darkroom rather than just scanning...I havent produced on of my badly executed prints in 6 months!..... to TRY not to rush my negs when developing them an have them coming out hairier than the cat.