After viewing Rolf’s recent resolution videocast ( Episode 26 ) you may be interested in some help with “real” new year resolutions, but photography ones of course! An article by Thom Hogan available here is an excellent read and provides some advice on having attainable photographic goals.
It was not written with new year in mind but I stumbled across it just recently. He suggests having combinations of short and long term goals, all with quantifiable results.
As there is little I can add to his piece I will just list some of the goals I came up with myself after reading it:
- Enrol on a photography course. Starts Jan 16th!
- Tag those thousands of images that do not have tags, at least an hour a week.
- Create a photography website. Work on it at least an hour a week.
- Shoot at least one half day every week and produce one printable image that I would be happy to hang on the wall.
Now all these objectives have dates and specific details assigned but be warned, I proudly showed these aims to my wife. Her response “It looks like you have resolved to do even more of the things you already enjoy doing”.
“Errr…Yes…” 
Vortigern.
Tags: goals, Resolutions
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First post of a “Meet the GIMP Correspondent”!
My photographic resolution for the New Year:
Like many New Zealanders I haven’t seen much of my own country, but my wife and I will be addressing that at the end of January. A two-week trip through some of the scenic highlights of the South Island spurred me to buy a decent if unremarkable point-and-shoot super zoom camera, a Panasonic FZ18, and my resolution is to spend the next three weeks learning how to get the best out of it, and working my way through Rolf’s tutorials so that GIMP can help make sure that our photographic souvenirs of the trip are worth keeping and looking at. I am a gimp, and I love the fact that meet the gimp is helping this gimp to use GIMP to get the most out of his camera and his holiday.
Taking more pictures sadly won’t be my primary goal, at least not at the beginning of this year. Just went through my photos of last year and have hardly processed any of them .
So my first goal is processing those images. Have already made a fairly good start, now I only hope I can keep it up, so I can start taking new photos pretty soon (I already know I won’t be able to resist the coming Spring Festival - 5 weeks to go, so there’s my first deadline :).
Second goal would be to get some of those photos printed so I can put them in an album (is already waiting to be filled) and I am hoping to have at least a few photos that will be good enough to be framed.
Third, ehm… Will have to come back on that one after I have read the text you linked to.
An interesting article which made me think. So I decided to make some ideas and plans into goals for 2008:
- First I need to organize and tag my photos (that includes to settle for the right software).
- Second UFRaw needs to be mastered. Not a huge amount of work,but still, one has to spend seriously some time on it in order to understand what’s behind it.
- Third, final and probably the most important, I must learn to look at other photographers’ work and to understand what makes them interesting. Let me start at looking weekly at photos on our photo group at 23hq and give comments in a constructive way. You are warned