I have started my prep for the next photographic challenge - Donna Nook. Over the next few weeks I hope to visit the site several times to try and capture all the action as the pupping and breading develops. I am also going to try and record as much as I can in the blog and afterwards try and pull this all together in some form of easy to use guide - I know this is not original but I hope that it will produce some really first class photography and perhaps some other people who have never visited the site before. Anyway here goes...
Preparation
This is the first phase of the project. Just what photographs do you want to make? What have you made in the past? What have other photographers made and how? The questions are almost endless but the first step I always find useful is blank sheet of paper. I spend some time board blasting ideas about what I want to do. It usually ends up with a few headings that I can start to work on.
The next stage step is to review what I have already taken and ask how could these improved? If they can't then why do I think they are good already? This usually involves some soul searching and realisation that what I thought was pretty good last year now just looks ordinary.
Now is the time to get really depressed because it is time for a google image search. Here you come up with a whole lot of, well, dross. However, in amongst these are some real gems. These are used to help me further define what I want to do. Of course now that I am using Flickr I can use this as a resource.
After this it is trying to find useful websites. To date the following site are some use:
Then it is time to descend into the world of the blogosphere. Now most of the blogs are uninspiring, hopefully not this one but there are always one or two little bits to pick up along the way.
By now I should hopefully start to have a feel for what I want to do. Well that is the plan but as I write this I am still very much in the dark - which is exactly what it will be when I set off tomorrow - weather permitting - to check out the lay of the land, what has changed, what is the same, how does the sun effect the photographs etc. Anyway lets see if all the work pays off!
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