A Few Notes/ Photo 365

I haven't exactly mastered my digital camera nor am I shooting in manual mode but I have learned a few things by doing this Photo 365 project.  Mostly my technique is trial and error - and more error than anything else...you can see my results in the Photo 365 Album.

Taking a lot of pictures is good.  My friend Don used to say that if you take enough photos, you are bound to get a good one.  And he's definitely right - just keep shooting. Move the camera around a bit - change the angle or settings and see what you get.  Sometimes you get lots of nothing but sometimes you get a good one.  Which brings me to my next lesson...

You need to be somewhat ruthless about deleting the repeats and really bad ones or else you will end up with tons of photos.  So every couple of days I try to make myself go through all the photos and just keep the good ones. Of course, each day usually has a couple of good ones so I still end up with a lot of photos.  So I had to come up with a system so I could find the ones I had uploaded here.   Here is what I do - first I put the photos I take every day in a folder labeled with the month.  Each day when I pick one to upload here, I move it to another folder called Photo 365 - March or whatever month.  That way I have the 'good ones' from that month in one place.

One really nice thing about this project is that I am much more comfortable with my equipment.  I keep everything in one bag so things aren't scattered around.  A bag not only corrals my stuff it also makes it easy to grab and go.  I swear I can download my pictures from my camera in my sleep - doing it everyday takes a lot of the mystery out of it.  After a couple of frustrating days with a dead battery I decided to invest in a second battery.  That and trying to train myself to check the battery status has made it much less unlikely to have a dead camera.  Well worth the money.