Since joining Steemit I've been sorting through all the pictures that I've taken in the last several years. I've been re-editing pictures that I had edited before, and I've also been finding a lot of pictures that I had never edited because I apparently didn't think they were worth editing at the time. It's really interesting to see how my editing, composition, and content preferences have changed in the couple years since I began taking pictures.
One thing that I've noticed is that when I started taking pictures I would pretty much only edit pictures that were in really sharp focus, regardless of the composition or content of the rest of the picture. I've since become much more interested in the feel and story that a photo tells, rather than how in focus or perfectly exposed it is (obviously, I would still like my pictures to be perfectly in focus and properly exposed, but those factors are less important to me than they used to be).
Take this duck picture for example. Nothing is very focused and my shutter speed wasn't fast enough to really freeze movement very well. When I took this picture a couple years ago, I never even took a second look at it because I had already decided it was blurry crap. As I was going through pictures earlier this week I came across this shot and it was much more appealing to me than it ever had been before. I still don't really like it that much, I would prefer that I had used a faster shutter speed and that the ducks were more much more clear. That said, I like how it kind of captures the frenetic activity of the moment and gives an idea of the movement that was happening as these two Mallard ducks fought (or flirted, not sure).
Anyways, it's interesting for me to think about how my photography preferences have changed in the last couple years, and I'm curious to see how they continue to change in the future!
I'd love to hear from any of you that take pictures or enjoy looking at pictures. How have your interests and style preferences changed?
