OCOLOY Collective

ONE CAMERA ONE LENS ONE YEAR

instagram: @Ocoloycollective

send your images to: stayuntilforever@gmail.com

welcome to the project

All we need is one camera and one lens for one year to change our photography forever. Get away from the same images you always take, free yourself from gear and go in to a world of new and exiting possibilities. Learn everything from the beginning and find your true love for photography.  Professional or beginner doesn’t matter. It’s all about photography.

Brake the rules, embrace the grain and create your images instead of just taking them. Shoot less and keep more. Maybe use and old camera you used to love or buy something cheap second hand. Try a manual focus only lens for the first time in a long time and shoot everything in M mode. Preferably use a primelens instead of a zoom. Try a lens you don’t get along with or a lens you never use. Off course you can use your other photography gear aswell during the year but try to always have the OCOLOY camera in mind when you’re out and about. I used my OCOLOY gear about 90% during the year I did my projects, but I had to use my “real” gear for work etc. I learned more about photography my first year of OCOLOY then I did in my 24 years of photography .

Try to keep one style throughout your project if you want to but maybe try something new.

Here’s a few examples you might wanna try.  Take one of them and try to photograph only that style for a month. Think more, shoot less.

Best of all, you decide when to start!

• Portrait mode ( shoot only with the camera tilted )

• Black and white

• Landscape

• Minimalstic

• Artsy

• Streetphotography

• Action/motion

• Still life

• Double exposures

• Night photography

• Fastest aperture

• Shoot from the hip

• ISO 800

• Minimum focus lenght

• Slow shutter

Why not throw in one nice and well composed selfie aswell for the fun of it.

Some bonus things you could add to your OCOLOY setup to spice it up: ND filter, CPL filter, Pro-mist filter, mini tripod, softshutter release button, mini camerabag etc.

Set out to make prints of at least 12 images a month or 36 images every 3 months. That’s a total of 144 prints in a year = 4 rolls of film

      10x15 cm x 144 = 450kr /42euros /40 usd

At the end of the year make some bigger prints of your top 5 images or more

That’s cheaper than to buy one 35mm film, have it developed, printed and scanned.

What to do when the project is over

• Make another OCOLOY with a different focal length and camera on year two

• Make your own magazine/book from the images

• Do a small vernissage at a local coffee shop

• Give away some of your printed images to friends

• Inspire others

• Keep on rocking in the free world

MORE THINGS COMING SOON…

Ideas & Questions