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Now here's a question for The Crew: do you wrestle with choosing between the best aesthetic shot of the day and the one that's most representative of your life? For me, often the shots are one and the same, but sometimes (and this happened quite a bit on vacation) I find it really hard to make the call between what's pleasing to the eye and what might be meaningful for posterity. I imagine that now that I'm back home with term looming, I won't actually have the luxury of this quandary much longer. How about you?
I had so many to choose from while we were on vacation and now I find myself at the end of the day thinking, "Crap! I forgot to take a picture today." Then I snap whatever.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping once the kids are in school bringing the camera everywhere with me with become second nature. Until then, at least we have two more mini camping trips planned. :)
Well, substitute least unaesthetic and you've got it. I also cheat. What I figure I am going to do is put all choices up on Flickr and put in the representative shot if I want to do a post about it, the more artistic one if it can go with just a label.
ReplyDeleteI find I take photos in batches when I have a good subject and so the accumulation of 365 of them is also going to go in batches.
Oh, I forgot. I also keep the camera right at hand in case a good subject suddenly appears. I've been doing that ever since I missed a couple of perfect toddler shots over forty years ago now.
ReplyDeleteHi Sue! I'm not on your crew but I think this project is so, so interesting, since I knew most of you as bloggers first. I hope you don't mind my following along?
ReplyDeleteYour question could be asked of blogging (in words), too -- do we record incidents for posterity, or do we write about incidents that'll get the best response from readers, or do we write about what had the most emotional impact on a particular day? The answer, I guess, is "yes."
My mother likes the picture, laughed at your "wise decision," and says "why not do both--a mix is always good." We feel the same way about multiple dessert choices.
ReplyDeleteI've been going by gut instinct - which shot seems to attract my eye, especially when I'm viewing them all in "library" mode. I'm not worrying too much about being representative of my life, because I figure in 365 days, we're going to end up with a pretty good cross-section.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do find difficult about the one-pic-per-day format is that it's hard to find a photo that stands alone - it seems to me that most photos say more, and seem cooler, as part of a series.
Generally I choose the most interesting, best picture of the day. The others that mean alot to me, but aren't the best shots, sometimes loose something when shared. It's magic when that picture is both.
ReplyDeleteI've been finding that they coincide really often. My current shot of the day looks for all the world like a stright art shot, but Myra's brothers have spent hours upon hours on that climber, swinging from those rings, so posterity is there in spades.
ReplyDeleteGood shot of Teya.
I've made a rule for myself that if it's between two or more shots, I'll choose the one that most represents what we were doing that day. This is going to be a pretty special year for us, and so I want to document it as well as work on my photography skills...At the same time, I won't choose a lesser photo just because it is representative.
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