Rolling along.

I'm up to about 22 images for SoFoBoMo, and I've got two more full weekends to shoot more images, so I feel like I'm making good progress. Posted here is a long exposure, taken of the Great Falls section of the Potomac after a week+ of heavy rain. It was a lovely breezy day on Saturday and everyone turned out to see the Falls in all its roaring glory. In previous shoots I had relied mainly on defocus; this time out I seemed to favor long exposure and long exposure with movement, aided by a hefty dose of neutral density filter to get that shutter to slow the heck down. It worked out pretty well, got a few more interesting shots.

I like this experimental approach, but it sure can play havoc with your nerves when you have a deadline, it's not like I churn out a whole stable of candidates within a matter of hours - it's more like shoot 200, find 1 in the bunch that worked. Maybe. But I like the sense of discovery that comes with the experimentation, so I guess it evens out.

Sometime this week I'm going to have to start thinking about layout and arrangement of the images. No clear pattern has emerged as yet. I'm considering making some quickie 4x6 prints of all the images so far - nothing "perfect" - so I can lay them out in front of me and get a good look. I can't seem to visualize the grouping as a whole so long as they just stay as files on my computer.

I appreciate the suggestion I've seen in some other blogs to use a trial version of InDesign to build the PDF - I may go that route. Which reminds me, I have to start giving others' finished SoFo books a look, something I haven't had time for recently. I'll set myself the goal to look at two a day, that should get me started.

Finish line for me is June 27th.