May 7th, 2008
Photo A Day: Recap
I missed a few days and I still need to get some of the photos off my phone (from the days when I didn’t take a real camera with me), but I think Project 30 was a success for me.
I’ve seen three major approaches to projects like this:
- Focus on your favorite type of photography and try to improve it.
- Focus on a less comfortable type of photography and try to improve it.
- Attempt to encapsulate your day in a photo.
I started out well within my comfort zone–macros of flowers–because flowers hold still, it’s spring (hooray!), and I’m trying to push the limits of my digital point-and-shoot (they’re pushed). By the end of the month, I had moved more towards the third approach.
I improved some aspects of my photography, and managed to create a fairly interesting (to me, anyway) account of my month: spring in Colorado, Florissant, Steamboat Springs, and my trip to Houston last week. There aren’t a lot of people in my photographs because I don’t like posting photos of people online without asking first. The main thing I am taking away from this experience is that I’ve pushed my point-and-shoot as far as it can reasonably go, and I seriously need to start looking at DSLRs if I want to take the photos I imagine.
You can see most of my photos in my Project30 Flickr Photoset.









