100 photos in 100 days
Okay!
All but the spectacularly unobservant of you probably noticed I just finished posting a photo a day for a hundred days. Here's some rambling about that:
This is actually the fourth time I've done this (2007, 2009, & 2011 being the other times). Each time I started in Janurary or Feburary. That's a little early in the year, but I wouldn't want to start much after the vernal equinox - it's grueling and the last thing I need when getting towards the end is daily diminishing daylit hours. Macro photography mitigates that a bit, but it's difficult to maintain a flow of fresh ideas for that.
Over the 3⅓ months, there were of course some days that I felt completley out of ideas, and others when I knew exacly the shot I wanted and was really excited about it. Some days I spent hours fiddling with stuff, other days things just worked, and still other days days neither of those happened and I felt like I was phoning it in. This is all what one would expect from any protracted endeavor. But what is strange about that these factors were only tenuously connected to how I liked the results. And then the correlation between that and and how other people reacted was also pretty loosey-goosey. Philosophically speaking, I'm not really sure what to make of that.
Though I posted a hundred pictures, I took 2651. This is about the same rate of "keepers" as I've ever had, and I've read a lot of other photographers report similar rates. Since my technical ability has improved but that ratio has not, I wonder if it's less about the photos themselves and more the effect of an intuitive notion of what is the "right amount" of selectivity.
Anyway, To everyone who has commented, +1-ed, or quietly enjoyed any of these photos: Thank you! I really do appreciate your ... uh ... appreciation.
All but the spectacularly unobservant of you probably noticed I just finished posting a photo a day for a hundred days. Here's some rambling about that:
This is actually the fourth time I've done this (2007, 2009, & 2011 being the other times). Each time I started in Janurary or Feburary. That's a little early in the year, but I wouldn't want to start much after the vernal equinox - it's grueling and the last thing I need when getting towards the end is daily diminishing daylit hours. Macro photography mitigates that a bit, but it's difficult to maintain a flow of fresh ideas for that.
Over the 3⅓ months, there were of course some days that I felt completley out of ideas, and others when I knew exacly the shot I wanted and was really excited about it. Some days I spent hours fiddling with stuff, other days things just worked, and still other days days neither of those happened and I felt like I was phoning it in. This is all what one would expect from any protracted endeavor. But what is strange about that these factors were only tenuously connected to how I liked the results. And then the correlation between that and and how other people reacted was also pretty loosey-goosey. Philosophically speaking, I'm not really sure what to make of that.
Though I posted a hundred pictures, I took 2651. This is about the same rate of "keepers" as I've ever had, and I've read a lot of other photographers report similar rates. Since my technical ability has improved but that ratio has not, I wonder if it's less about the photos themselves and more the effect of an intuitive notion of what is the "right amount" of selectivity.
Anyway, To everyone who has commented, +1-ed, or quietly enjoyed any of these photos: Thank you! I really do appreciate your ... uh ... appreciation.