21 Day Wrap

See previous post for the 21 Shoot’n Challenge… wrapping up some loose ends tonight before diving into what is sure to be another epic week so these are some runner-ups to the daily shots from that challenge & a few thoughts on what I learned from the exercise.

One of the first things I learned was how to add some code to the otherwise ‘stock’ blog so I could split up the longer posts. I don’t know HTML or whatever this is but in the same way I take apart cars and put 'em back together… alls that matters is that it works eh.

I also finally went to the trouble of downloading some presets for Lightroom off the interweb and although that was only one short session it was worthwhile and I’ll do more of that.

In terms of the shoot I started paying closer attention to exposure etc, in many cases shooting manual. I also started paying closer attention to my in camera crops. In general I could have taken more time, used a tripod more often, but this is the real world.

In terms of ‘seeing’ I think that was the biggest thing I drew from this challenge because some days there wasn’t anything cool to shoot like the moon or birds and I had to get creative. I also found myself noticing the weather and the light more and actually timing things such as work hours etc to give me the best shooting opportunities. I also got out in some weather that would otherwise have clipped my wings. (Spring is still not here … another 6” of heavy wet snow last night.)








Poor old Tessa, could not figure out why I wouldn't bring a gun to go after those pesky squirrels...

One last thing, a thankyou to Moe for joining in and providing some input. He does the 'headless chicken' thing too with similar gear so I look forward to further challenges. And with luck some side by side shooting when we can get together hopefully in the fall at the Big Ditch.