Weekly Digital Photography CompositionDiscovering the GemsTed describes how to Improve digital
If you are like me, you take far more pictures than you have a chance to share with others. And, if you aren't sharing, you are not taking that final step to make sure that you are learning from the pictures that you have taken - you are missing a key step for improving your photo compositions. The inspiration for a weekly showing of my images came from Google's Picasa. When I installed Picasa version 3 on my work laptop, I happened to enable the Picasa screen saver program and discovered that it would randomly select images from my disk. Once it kicked in, I was surprised to learn that I actually liked many more of my own photographs than I had expected.
Now, I have the Picasa screen saver installed at home, randomly selecting from some 15,000 images. It is a great way to review my work with fresh eyes to see which images work well, and which don't. I recommend that you give it a try. After finding the real winners, the next step is to do some basic post-processing to bring out the best qualities of the images. For me, this usually involves exposure adjustments, cropping, and sharpening. The final step is then sizing for Web display. At the end, to get the most out of this effort, I add a brief critique. This works for your benefit as much as mine. After all, my goal with these weekly compositions is to help us both improve our digital photography.
Index to the Twenty Weekly Photography Compositions
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