As I have always said, if you want to stay fresh and keep that feeling of satisfaction in your life as a photographer, you have to venture outside your comfort zone, challenge yourself…Even Fail some times.
I have many plans for the future and a lot of projects I have been thinking about, one of them is integrating my day job as a truck driver into my photography. I have been meaning to do this for a while, but I always came up with excuses not to. My dSLR was to big, I didn’t have the time…so on and so on.
So I finally decided that I would start the project, but to make it real interesting I added some twists, some guide lines to the project and those guide lines are:
1) All pictures must be taken during my actual run. No images for this project will be taken on my way to work, on my home from work or on the weekends. Part of the challenge of this project is looking for and finding interesting imagery while being hampered by a big 75 foot long vehicle.
2) All images are to be taken with either my iPhone or a P&S (Point and Shoot) camera. I am not going to say that it’s easier to take a good picture with a larger dSLR, but it does have advantages that give you an edge. Depth of field really helps and of coarse there is the larger, higher quality sensor which really helps with low light situations. With cheaper P&S and worse still my iPhone, I will have to work to turn these disadvantages into good pictures.
With those two guide lines, every day I will keep my eye open for great pictures and then try to use the limited equipment that I have allowed myself to capture those images.
So if you have a spare few minutes and you want to see some cool pictures, head on over to 18 Wheels and a Camera, I hope to keep you entertained enough to check it out daily…But don’t forget this site as well!
