I've just posted a new triplet of images over on my main website in a category that I call "small sets".
I don't know about you, but the DAMN effin' hardest thing for me is consistency in my photos and post processing. I have the tendency to craft every single image individually to get the maximum of what I want and see in the photo, but that leads to rather random results, and I have the feeling that's what is all over my albums. Randomness.
The photos are not as tightly connected to each other as I would like them to be. The albums seem to be a loose compilation of somewhat related photos, but all in all, just too different to form a unit. I think that's why people have rather generic album themes, if any. ;)
I remembered this set of three photos after yesterday's Google+ post* on my photography page because they were also made with the Fuji. It was of course beneficial that all three were black & white already, and I was able to get them into a standard 2x3 aspect ratio (whereas I very often choose an aesthetic approach to cropping, disregarding all standard aspect ratios) with a similar appearance.
I like to split-tone my monochrome images for a bit of a sepia look at the moment (oh really?!) and using black & white for a more uniform appearance could be considered cheating, but I've just spent hours on processing images from last Sunday's hike, trying to get consistent results in color, and it's a freaking nightmare. :)
By creating small sets of images like the ones combined in the linked blogpost, I'm seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. I'm still pretty far away to get a consistent look over photos that were made over a larger span of time, but it's a start.
*) more on digital black & white with a red filter in a later post.
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