It’s officially 2025! Happy New Year’s Day, everyone!
I started a new 365 Day photo project, which I’m calling 52 Weeks of Photography, back on Christmas Eve. This article is simply the introduction of the project, and the first set of seven images. I’m pretty excited to do this, and hope you appreciate following along on this journey.
This isn’t the first time that I’ve done a 365 Day photo project—I did one from August 2018 through August 2019. I developed the habit of picking up a camera daily, and my photography improved from start to finish. Also, I captured some photographs that I wouldn’t have otherwise, a few of which I was quite happy with. There is definitely a benefit to doing this type of thing. Professional athletes and musicians practice daily, so why shouldn’t photographers?
The reason why I’m doing this now is because I noticed gaps in-between my images. I haven’t been picking up my cameras daily. On several occasions, four or five days have gone by without a single picture created. Twice in 2024, a whole week passed. I want to rectify this, and get back into the habit of daily photography. I also want to elevate the quality of my craft in 2025, and am hoping this will help with that.
I’ve set some ground rules for myself. I’m taking things one week at a time. That’s a little easier mentally than looking at it as one whole year chunk. If I mess up on a week, I’ll simply extend the project by a week; however, I’m also giving myself two grace days. I’d actually like to finish this on Christmas Day, which is 367 days from the start. If I miss two days, that’s perfectly ok. If I miss three to seven days, this project will be extended by one week. I think it’s good to build-in some breathing room, because life happens.
My hope is to capture a year’s worth of notable images, either personally or artistically. Ansel Adams famously stated, “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” It’s important to keep expectations realistic, but I’m also trying to avoid thoughtless snapshots just to fulfill the day’s requirement. I want to push myself to be better, and hopefully that will happen. Not every photo will be great—in fact, most won’t—but I hope they are all at least decent enough to be shared without embarrassment.
Below are the first set of seven pictures from this 52 Weeks of Photography project.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
Wednesday, December 25th, 2024
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
Friday, December 27th, 2024
Saturday, December 28th, 2024
Sunday, December 29th, 2024
Monday, December 30th, 2024
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Happy New Year, Ritchie!
All the bestest for New Year!
Let me start the year with a question.
What are you doing if you need to print your work?
Happy New Year!
I typically use Bay Labs, I’ve had good experiences with them. I’ve used Adoramapix before (but not since becoming Printique). I’m not sure yet where I will print the XPan photos.
I meant how you usually prepare your picture for print because if you always shoot JPG, you get a picture with 72 dpi when it’s recommended 300 dpi for print. In this case, when planning to print I usually use RAW.
72 PPI of JPEGs is a bit misunderstood. If you use a monitor or ink printer, it will max out at 72 PPI when viewing the full resolution. That’s something like 100″ wide from the 26mp sensor. So as long as your ink print or monitor isn’t 8+ feet wide, it’s no worries.
You can test this really easily. Take your edited RAW file, export as a TIFF and also as a JPEG, and print both the same size. Examine them for similarities and differences.
I’ve printed SOOC JPEGs from the 24/26mp sensors as big as 2′ x 3′. At that size, it’s a bit of a stretch for the resolution, but still looks good; however, 16″ x 24″ is definitely an excellent size for the megapixels. For the 40mp sensor, 2′ x 3′ looks great, but you can stretch it up to 30″ x 40″ without much trouble (I’ve only done that once).
I don’t do anything to the JPEGs. Just send them as they are.
Hi Ritchie, Happy 2025 with your project! I wondered if you are also thinking of keeping to just one or two lenses to practise your point of view and so on. I see you are shooting more with a 56mm than before (I have one too and it’s great but I seem to reach for 90 because that is also very nice indeed!
I’m not restricting the lenses; however, I left the 90mm at home for that trip because it didn’t fit in my bag, now that I have the GFX camera. Both the 56mm and 90mm are a couple of my favorite lenses, the 56mm maybe a little more so—it’s actually my wife’s, so I have to ask to use it 🤣
Excellent project Ritchie 👌
And happy start / new year 🎊
Thanks so much! Happy new year to you!
Great start, much better than I would expect for a daily thing. You got me thinking about it but around the burbs here (west end of Montreal Island). I’m not sure I could do well. I organize occasional 8:00 AM coffee walks with local club members and I ran out of spots after less than 20 outings. I’ll definitely be following. Have a great year
It helped that I started while on a roadtrip. Week two has been around my suburban neighborhood, so we’ll see how those go… 🤣
Happy New Year Ritchie!
Very impatient to see your photos every week and your daily life in the suburbs which could motivate some of us to embark on a project in this style!
Sorry for the English from google translator.
Hello from France
Happy New Year to you, too!