The process of working on this project was very out of the ordinary for me, given how I go about approaching my photography sessions. I am someone who is very cautious with my shutter count due to wanting to preserve the condition of my camera. I also do not like going through thousands of photos, as it is a waste of my time. With some intentionality, I can create the best versions, of my pictures without overshooting, with careful attention to detail and experimentation. I tend to take the rule of creating three variations of every photo, and I feel like that works well for me.

For our group, we went out and shot freely first, which was productive. I got about 500 pictures from that, and then we came back together to take the framed photos. I did honestly feel constrained and wanting to move around more, not really liking the fixed perspective that is how the assignment is set up. I like to walk around my subject and get different angles and unique details, and I think there's only so much you can do within one fixed area of movement. Whenever I take photos, I'm not someone that utilizes Photoshop or other editing tools. To frame my pictures, I frame in camera almost 90% of the time, and I use my leveling guide integrated on the camera to make sure everything is level. It makes my process easier whenever I'm editing.

My biggest complaint about this project is Photoshop. I cannot get it to work with the batch editing features. It requires way too much storage, and I cannot give it enough storage to run its process on my computer. I think it's ridiculous that only 16 GB of raw photos needs over 100 GB of storage to be able to process. I don't even know what the number is that I actually need, because I still can't get it to work as of writing this. Going forward, I will not be using this process to edit my photos, as storage is far too expensive right now. I need as much storage as I can get already on my computer to be able to do work for my actual major. Until Photoshop becomes a cloud service and this process can be run virtually, I will not be using it and will instead be using Lightroom on the cloud.