Every summer one of my friends hosts "The Summer Mix Series," where people can post song mixes for the summer. It's always a great way for me to be exposed to new bands and different types of music, and I always end up with an explosion of inspiration from the songs. So for the first 5 days of this week, I tried to tie my shots to songs I'd recently found. Day 41 I messed up bad because I had misnumbered my shots earlier in the week, and I thought it was Day 42, a big milestone for Douglas Adams fans, so I took a shot with towel, but it was really only Day 41. And then today, I was just so tempted by how beautifully lit my bowl of mirabelles was that I couldn't resist. I'll pick up with the songs tomorrow probably.
Track list (for those who might be interested, most of these can listened to via grooveshark or
daytrotter.com*):
Day 36: Andy Hull and the Manchester Orchestra - Where Have You Been
Day 37: Shugo Tokumaru - Rum Hee
Day 38: Jaymay - What About the Bob
Day 39: Jaymay - One May Die So Lonely
Day 40: The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time
*daytrotter is a great site for indie musicians where they come in and record 2-5 songs live in the daytrotter studios for free distribution.
A little background: I chose to do a self-portrait project about 2 months after getting my first DSLR, a K100D, to help me improve my camera and post-processing skills and to force myself to use my camera every day. I'm sure there are subconscious reasons in there as well, but basically at the time I lived alone and had no children or pets or anything else to practice on, and a couple of my friends had joined a group on flickr that was just for this project. So for two years now, I've taken a self-portrait every day. I just finished year two on June 30th. I decided to do a third year, but this time I'm trying to do a "matching" shot for each day. Ideally either the subject matter or the mood or the processing or the place or the contours of the composition match the self-portrait. I'm also playing around with my lenses to try to either take two radically different photos with the same lens or to take similar photos with vastly different lenses.
This week I used the DA 12-24, the FA 31/1.8, the FA 43/1.9, the D-FA 100 macro, and the DA*200/2.8.
Day 36: I Can Hardly See What's in Front of Me These Days
Day 37: Rum Hee
Day 38: What ABOUT That Sky?
Day 39: One May Die So Lonely
Day 40: For the Last Time
Day 41: So I Have My Towel, But I'm a Day Early for Day 42
Day 42: Mirabelle
As always, comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome!
... i'm looking at macro and nature shooting differently because of you, THANKS A LOT 
Originally posted by rjburgos 
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