Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has caught more than a few of us off-guard, and its impact is likely to roll on for months to come.
Advice in many countries is to stay at home and minimize your contact with other people. This isn`t an easy thing to do, and for a lot of people it`ll mean having to find additional ways to stay occupied.
Photography can provide plenty of ways of keeping yourself entertained and committing yourself to a project now might be a chance to emerge with new skills and new ambition when things start to get back to, well, whatever future normal looks like.
This is the first part of a series where we`ll put forward ideas for things to do. But we want your input, too. Throughout this article will be links to forum threads where we look to hear your suggestions.
Organize your images
You keep promising yourself you`ll do this. Whether it`s going through and trying to tag things in a coherent way, honing your catalogue by deleting the images you know you`ll never use, or importing and arranging those memory cards and old hard drives of images that aren`t stored in a systematic manner, there`s always an organizational project that you`ve been putting off.
Are you ever going to get a better time than now? Even as someone working from home, I`ve gained all the time I`d usually spend commuting, so there`s no excuse for me to put off getting my images organized.
It might sound dull, but an organized set of images makes it easier to do the more fun suggestions we`re just about to get to...
Revisit your existing shots
Coming at it with a fresh pair of eyes, is there something you could do differently with a favorite image?
I`ve found myself wondering whether some of the shots I`ve taken in the past might benefit from split toning, which isn`t a technique I`ve often used in the past. But it may simply be a case of starting again and seeing whether there`s a different crop or a different `look` that ...
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