Just finished posting an edited selection of images from my recent trip to Copenhagen, Denmark. We actually had a reasonable amount of time (for a business trip anyway) to wander through the city and take some pictures. I took about 300 shots over the course of the week, and I have to say that I’m pretty pleased with the results. That’s not to say that the shots were all amazing or anything like that, but I felt like I’ve grown as a photographer and the results reflected that.
Partially, it was a fun week of shooting because it was the first time I’ve gotten to shoot seriously with my new camera. It seems to expose better than my old one (less constant fiddling with the compensation controls) and I really like having a more “pro” control interface to work with. It made for an enjoyable shooting experience.
On a much more important level, I felt like this was the first time I was really visualizing shots that I wanted and then figuring out how to actually get them. Things like building up intentional compositions with specific foreground and background elements, looking for specific lighting effects on the chosen subject, and timing a shot for when the pieces all came together. It was quite satisfying to look through the results and see how that intentionality paid off.
I’m looking forward to taking more pictures and working to develop that sense of vision in creating interesting (and hopefully unique...) images.
The full Flickr set can be found here.
