Let's talk photo assignments. So today I am putting together my journal and I thought I'd show you what I'm working on so maybe this would help some of you that are doing your own.

If you're not familiar with photo assignments at all, I will put all of the links that you need to see below, but basically these are projects

that we're going to be doing once every month, once every six weeks, and we'll be doing these

through the next year. And these are projects that are designed in an assignment type way to challenge you as a photographer.

So the goal in these is to improve creative thinking and your general skills as a photographer.

So one of the things that I had put into place with these is I strongly

encouraging everybody to keep a notebook or a journal. And so that's what I'm working on today

and I'm going to show you how I'm putting mine together. I'm going to come back to this in a second, but there's a way,

you know, when you present your work like this printed out, it has a completely different effect

than when you're looking at it on a screen. I think you're going to get a lot more out of it.

And just to show you some of the details of how I'm working on this. You can make a contact sheet, which I think is the most efficient way to go. And you can do this in Lightroom. You can do it using bridge or Photoshop or whatever you're used to using.

So I basically made contact sheets and I did two columns and three rows and then I took a pair

of scissors and cut those up so that's what you're seeing here and I'm pasting them into my

sketchbook. Now my sketchbook is not that big and next time I do this I'm probably going to go a little

smaller on here but there's enough room in here to write notes and the way I see it, you can always get another

sketchbook if you run out of room in this one. There's nothing wrong with that, you know, you want them big enough to

where you can see them and but still make notes. But anyway that's what I'm working on now

Pro tip number one I prefer to use rubber cement and rubber cement as opposed to

something like glue or tape and the main reason is this is probably just an old habit that I've gotten into from

mounting work in the old days but rubber cement unlike glue which when it dries is really hard and if you need to

remove an image or you want to move it into another notebook or

something you risk tearing the image or the paper. Same with scotch tape as well and

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