photoshop

My Photo-a-Day project passed the hundred day mark a week ago. The hardest part has been letting myself take an uninspired photo, or a week’s worth of uninspired photos, and not beat myself up for it. Where does the instinct to improve through self-criticism come from? “Maybe if I keep calling myself a crapster photographer, I’ll turn into a master photographer!”

What’s sick is that I know berating myself is mentally unhealthy…which sometimes results in me beating myself up for beating myself up. My neuroses are self-aware and like to fight with each other.

On the plus side, taking a photo a day has helped me see patterns in how I view the world that I wasn’t conscious of before. The project has also been good motivation to work on my Photoshop skills. I enjoy learning the program and knowing I can turn a bland photos into something half-decent keeps me from getting too frustrated.

As for photos, there’s not much recently I’ve taken that I’ve been proud of, but I do like this one from the field by National Airport. I also tried a new Photoshop technique on an old photo that turned out pretty well (before | after).