Quote Originally Posted by adina
Having reached the landmark 1000 posts has put me in a reflective mood. Have I gotten any better in the past year? Fortunately, I don't ever burn anything to cd so everything since I've gone digital is still on the computer

After going back thru some older photos, I don't think I've made that much progress image-wise. I'm much more consistant, and have a much higher keeper ratio, but other than that, I'm looking pretty similar. Here's a 2004 and 2005, both from July, so almost exactly a year apart. 2004 is the one on the chair, 2005 is outside. In order to correct this stagnent-ness (is that a word?) I'm attending a 3 day workshop next weekend. Hopefully that will give me the boost I need.

Anyone else?
I've posted about this before to some degree, but I think what happens as you get better is that your standards ratchet up ever higher. Sometimes we end up out of equilibrium for a while where very little (or nothing) meets our standards. Getting better equipment doesn't always help. We end up saying: "If I can't take great pictures with this $X lens, I must really stink."

To answer your question, I kinda feel like you do. I just completed my first year completely digital and with better lenses than I had before. I have improved some. My photos generally look professional to me and I get more "keepers."

But -- and here's the but -- the number of zingers hasn't improved much. By that I mean I haven't added to my own list of favorite photos much this year, especially those of my kids, although I feel that I can fire off technically proficient, pro quality photos whenever I want.

Does that make sense?