I wish you luck, but why limit yourself to f/8? How does such an arbitrary limitation help you learn anything?
I could see maybe making the first week of the month "f/8 week" or something, but a whole year, every shot, every day?
I shoot well over 50% of my shots with smaller apertures, but I'd last about a week with such a limitation. To each his own, but I think limiting yourself to a single focal length would teach you much more about composition and how to see. And you'd have the added benefit of not tossing 1/3 of the exposure triangle out the window while forcing yourself to use less than optimal camera ISO values. Assuming you want the best results for all the time you will be spending with the camera of course.
Good luck!
I understand your doubts, but first of all I didn't say all my photograph in this year will be at f/8.
Only the ones belonging to the 365 project will be at f/8 and BW. So during the year I'll shoot for sure color photograph from f/2.8 to f/16, but only B&W and F/8 are in for the project. So f/8 can relate to two moments: before shooting (when I'll set the camera to f/8 because I want to take a shoot for my project) or later in the workflow, when I'll select only f/8 shots (and that will also improve my skills in making selections).
Why all this? For several reason.
I found myself always shooting bokeh pictures or full sharpness pictures. So I was sleeping on the edges of the aperture span, while there's a world inside. So f/8 will help me exploring the "in between" area. If you want a Bokeh at f/8 you must be really close to the subject, which is something that I love in reportage and street (my favourite genres). F/8 it's easy to use during daylight (providing you focus correctly), but it's quite a challenge in night street photography. You are right, aperture it's one of the exposure traingle and...so how can you shoot when it's blocked on f/8? You raise iso? ok, but you get noise. You slow speed? Ok, but you will have a moved photo. Then? The you start searching for light. And that's what I hope.
I am already limited to one single focal lenght, since I only have the fuji 27mm 2.8. I use the Nikon 50mm 1.8 one shot every 200, so...
I could agree totally with you if I
only shoot B&W and F/8 all the year, every day. But fortunately only the photos for the project 365 will be B&W AND f/8.
In the end, this project it's not supposed to raise technical skill or knowledge of the camera. It's just made to raise up creativity. When you cannot move in your usual directions, you start creating new directions. And that's what I want. I see everywhere on the web beautiful images, perfect from every point of view, but they are the SAME. Sameness.
I want to explore new lands of photography, so that's why I limited myself.
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