I’ve never been one for New Years resolutions, and if I have I doubt I ever kept them. But, this year I have decided to set a couple of photography goals. The first is simply to take more photographs with the aim for getting four ‘good’ images a month. What’s a good image? That’s subjective, obviously – but for me it’s something that I like enough to post on the front page of in the portfolio section of this site, but that doesn’t happen very often. For example, I went out the other week and took 129 photos, and kept only three. Of those, I’m happy to post them in my blog, but not anywhere else.
My second goal is to take more candid photos of family and friends, not just photographs that (in my head) are worth sharing with other photographers. Our first grandchild is due this year, and the older I get the more sentimental I am. iPhone photography doesn’t do it for me, it’s the buttons – there aren’t any!
My last goal is to simplify my whole process, by having less process. For the whole year I’m only going to shoot in JPEG, and do as little post processing as possible. One of my favorite things about Fuji cameras is the Film Sim bracketing, which allows me to take three photographs at once, each with a different film sim. Then, there’s the endless recipes for creating filmic looks. I’m hoping it will make me compose better in camera. I’ve got rid of my Adobe subscription. I begrudged paying it, but it was the standard and everyone was using it. I’m going to do as little editing as possible, so I need need a fancy bit of software.
I really want 2025 to be more relaxed, and fun. Hopefully that will come across in my photography.
Shaun Madill Photography 