December Challenge Was A Challenge

Posted by jeremy on January 8th, 2008 filed in Photography, Photos

In December, I decided to join Trevor Carpenter’s December Challenge, which meant taking a portrait of somebody different every day. I usually do not shoot portraits, so this was an interesting challenge for me.

Some of the shots were very average, just snapshots. But I managed to get a couple of portraits that I am particularly happy with, and I have some ideas for future portraits that I want to pursue.

Here are all the portraits I took for the December Challenge. Clicking the photo will take you to the set on Zooomr, where you can see larger versions of each photo.
December Challenge Results

Update 2008-01-08:
Andrew Lighten asked about the ratio of friends and family to strangers. Here’s the breakdown:
Family: 3
Friends: 6
Strangers: 22

I was pleasantly surprised at how receptive most people were to having their picture taken. Most people wanted a copy of it as well. I would say probably 70-80% of the strangers I asked said yes.


3 Responses to “December Challenge Was A Challenge”

  1. Trevor Carpenter Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Your artistic vision is quite nice. Several of your portraits were very unique and wonderful.

  2. Andrew Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Jeremy, how many of these people did you know, and how many were total strangers who you took portraits of? That was always the big issue for me: taking portraits of complete strangers. Good work, btw, regardless of the friend/stranger ratio.

  3. Drew Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    I agree, it was a challenge but you have some excellent shots from it. You definitely did well.

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