Happy New Year

So, I started to think about the last year, and what my New Years resolutions might be. So what did I do last year?

  • I started up the blog again.
  • Got my first full year of DSLR shooting under my belt
  • Spent a bazillion (well, to me) on photoshop, but don’t really know how to use it.
  • Upgraded my camera to a D90, and promptly stopped taking pictures

Yea, I am not sure what happened. The pre winter blah’s seemed to hit me in November around my birthday. I had finished the Marathon, purchased the D90 that I had been saving for for quite some time (actually before it was announced), and then petered out with no real goals. So what are the goals for the new year?

  • Read six new photography books. I was going to say 12, but lets be realistic. New ones to me.
  • Find a mentor. I need to find someone to shoot with, someone that can push me, and someone that can tell me why the photos that I take are just not quite there.
  • Do a 365 series of the kids. This will at least put the camera in my hands, and hopefully help with the next point.
  • Learn about off camera flash. Actually I have been trying to learn for awhile, but not having an off camera flash was a bit of an impediment. I now have a SB800, so I need to start to put this to practice.
  • Get more comfortable with Photoshop. I want to finish Scott Kelby’s 7 step progarm, and then do it again.
  • Finish the christopherwardphotography.com site. Ok, no one ever “finishes” a site, but I want to finish the new site I am working on. This shouldn’t be too hard to do in the beginning of the new year. I was hoping for Jan 1, but you know…
  • Attend a multi-day photography workshop. This one is mostly a cost issue, but I don’t have a big hardware list at the moment for this year.

I suppose I could go on with other little things I want to finish and do, but those are the bigger ones I guess. I didn’t mention anything about vision. I don’t really know how to set a goal for that one. It will just have to sit there in the background hopefully leading the way.