Daily Interestingness
A Photo Exercise.
05/28/09
A couple weeks ago I was bothered by how busy I’ve been and the fact that it has prevented me from properly picking up a camera, so I set a new goal: take a photo a day, with my cell phone. I’m calling it the Daily Interestingness.
It may be a bit presumptive of me to assume all of my photos will indeed be interesting, but the project has done a few things: it makes me think about photography again, it has put me on the look out for quirky objects and textures, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
One of best things of all is the use of a crappy cell phone camera, in my case: the iPhone. The constraints enforced by these inferior cameras make me think differently. I’m a firm believer that the right constraints will help you create better as opposed to having all of the options in the world available.
I want you to play too.
All of my photos get put in a set (linked above) on flickr and tagged with “daily interestingness”. I’d encourage you to do the same and we can all play along.
The Rules:
- The photo has to be taken with your cell phone
(or some sort of similarly inferior image-capture device.) - Any editing has to be done in-camera or in-phone with available software. I use Camerabag (iTunes link) for the iPhone, primarily.
(You don’t have to edit them in any way if you don’t want to, but it’s fun.) - Upload them to flickr or VIRB° or whatever and tag them “daily interestingness”.
(don’t forget the quotes or flickr will split it into two separate tags.) - Share via Brightkite or Posterous or something like that.
- Have fun.
If you end up trying this out, or if you’re already doing something similar, post a link in the comments for us to check out.