I’ve not been too happy with my camera phone performance these past several days, by in large… But it’s certainly providing good feedback. Low tech tools. Funny, I never thought I’d be referring to the convergence of photography and telecommunications and computing and the internet as low tech.
Then I also noticed Lightroom 4 is in beta – woohoo! Exciting stuff! Amazed it took me this long to notice… it’s been a busy few weeks I guess.
Here’s one of my recent photos that I’ve been happier with.
It’s been a busy, hectic two weeks of life and photography. So I’m finally caught up. Oh snap, and despite publishing ten days of 365 Project two weeks ago I didn’t blog about it. So if this blog is your main entry point you have twenty four new works of art to view.
I’ll work to get back to a ‘few days at a time’ publishing cycle now, I promise.
Below you can see my Lightroom view as I went to upload the latest batch of 365 Project photos. I also share some insight into my work flow and how I have my PC set up. For those photogs out there I hope it’s of some use 
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The problem with going out for a photo walk when you are doing a 365 Project is you don’t want to ‘use up’ all the good subjects on that one day. “Snap!” I thought to myself. “This is interesting.” I continued. Realizing that even 8 days into my 365 project I was forced to be more considerate with what I shot. More thoughtful, more focused on the composition.
Then I continued “Well if I see something that gives me a good idea for a photo, so be it. I may never come back to this particular spot and I’ll make the most of it.” And I did, retaining my focus on trying to get great photos and not just allot of photos.
‘Great’? I like it. You might not. Let me know your thoughts. Can you guess what it is?
My home office was a mess of wires, it’s not normally. What a perfect opportunity for exploring their photographic qualities. This was about the seventh attempt at composition, and yes I did move the wires about a little bit. The color was distracting from the shapes so I removed it. Red sofa, blue, grey wires. Green and yellow jacks. This worked much better in B&W.
I knew this was boring going into it. All the same I was determined to find an interesting collection of shapes. Without color completely the image lost ‘something’ so I de-saturated but left a hint of color.
Exploring multiple curving lines on the cooker top.
Sticking in or out? I like how this image creates a 3D optical illusion.
The plan: Take a photo every day. Explore the world around me, even the mundane and work to extend and expand my view of the world, and of photography. To create.
Yikes! Here’s hoping I manage to make a photo every day.
I’m not super happy with January the 1st’s effort, I spent some time developing it and did a little bit of cropping. It’s rather grown on me.
In this new series I examine photographers themselves. Watch out photographers of the world, I’m out to capture you 🙂
Photography can be a tiring business, as this young woman has discovered.
Sometimes the most simple photos can be the most fun.
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