Project 52: Revisit & Re-Edit

This week we are revisiting and/or re-editing a past project.  I initially was not going to participate, but last week I took photos at the local shelter where my camera volunteers, using a woven basket I’ve used in the past.  It’s a small basket, so the animals, usually kittens, have to be fairly small.  The shelter doesn’t get too many that small, so it hadn’t been used in a while.  But they had three tiny kittens and we took a photo of each one in the basket.  So cute!

I then recalled a similar photo I took about 4 years ago when I started taking photos for the shelter.  Looking back, it was a horrible picture.  I think I had my camera on auto, didn’t really focus it on anything important, and then snapped!  As soon as you see it below, you’ll understand what I mean.  Before I posted it here, I used the lightroom plug-in you can install to see where the focus point is, and, as you can tell, it was on the basket.  It’s so bad, I didn’t even watermark it.

One Sunday morning in October 2016, I opened the Living section of the area newspaper and this horrible photo was staring at me.  Wondering if that was really mine, I went to my computer and searched for it.  Yep, it was mine.  (see below).  Even though it’s a bad picture, I kept the newspaper (why not!).  Notice that the credit was “AL.com file”.  During the time that I took the photo, the shelter I work with was submitting a pet of the week to the local newspaper (when they were truly “daily”).  That’s the only reason I can think that the newspaper had it.  Fortunately for me, I didn’t get the credit.

Compare that to the one I took last week.  Same basket, different cat!  The focus point is on the right eye.  And it’s a photo I’m proud of, hence, the watermark.

I need to do more of these comparisons.  Makes me see that, every year, I’m getting better.

Time to move on to Sandra McCarthy Photography to see what she has highlighted from her past.