Distractions

After having spent a week doing nothing but image editing (well, that, and my day job), I realized that this type of work is borderline addictive! I was flipping through some old articles from Popular Photography last night, and came across yet another image editing idea. I had to put my foot down and think about what I should be doing - taking new sets of pictures, not editing old ones. At least for the time being. I will definitely cover that image editing idea in a future post, because it was a good one. :)

So, I went and read (and read and read), so I could find some inspiration. I'd decided to do more macro photography, but with subjects other than butterflies and flowers. Although I could certainly improve in those areas, I 'd felt as though I'd done them to death! Finally, it hit me. I'd taken pictures of minerals in the past.

At the time, I thought these were really interesting. They are, but they were all taken when I knew so little, relatively speaking. Examples of what I didn't know:

1) How to shoot in RAW, so editing the images resulted in a loss of detail

2) Much about depth of field

3) Anything about macro photography. I took many other pictures, but their potential was extremely limited.

So, I'm going to do something with minerals, but with a twist. I'll explain more on Monday. Have a great weekend! Till Monday!