Journal: Thoughts after the photowalk

It was good to go out with other people. I'm still an introvert... I didn't talk much, but I'm not much for crowds. I need to find just one or two other people to hang out with on a more regular basis.

I'm not terribly thrilled with any of the images I got... especially the ones where I think I got an "okay" shot and someone posted a similar photo that is obviously superior to mine. But that's cool... I can look at theirs and see why mine didn't work so well, so it's an educational thing. The important thing was that I got out and shot, and I can see some of the things I need to focus on: remembering my depth-of-field, watching my exposure more closely, and just taking a lot more pictures of the same subject from different perspectives.

Also, I need to take more shots when I am out in general. I'd decided to try shooting RAW+JPG instead of JPG and my 1 GB card capacity went from 256 images to under 60. That's less than two rolls of film, so I lost one of the advantages of going digital... more capacity than I can use in a single outing. If I'm going to shoot RAW (and I am... there was one image that was unusable in JPG, but perfectly good in RAW), I'm going to need either a second, bigger CF card, or a portable storage device I can dump my images to.