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3 for the Memories' 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Event participation is as follows:

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

3 for the Memories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they took in 2025 that they find meaningful in some way or which represent how they experienced the year.

Questions? Visit the announcement post at

threeforthememories

yourlibrarian

3 for the Memories' 2024 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2025 and will run until January 24. Do let others know about us, as anyone can participate by just joining the community.

Just a reminder of how the event runs:

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

3 for the Memories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they took in 2024 that they find meaningful in some way or which represent how they experienced the year.

Feel free to drop any questions about the community or how the event runs on our announcement post.

yourlibrarian

Banner for the Three for the Memories community

3 for the Memories' 2023 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2024 and will run until January 24. The way the event works is:

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

threeforthememories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they find meaningful in some way as a form of sharing different experiences with one another.

Feel free to drop any questions about the community or how the event runs at our community post!

yourlibrarian

Banner for the Three for the Memories community

3 for the Memories is an annual community opening on January 3 and running until January 24. Its purpose is to share photos that each member has taken during the prior year. This might be the 3 photos that they feel best encapsulate their year, or are simply the ones they most wish to share by whichever criteria they choose. Anyone can participate by just joining the community.

Rules

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

3 for the Memories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they find meaningful in some way as a form of sharing different experiences with one another.

Visit

threeforthememories for more information or to ask about the event.

yourlibrarian

3 for the Memories is an annual community opening on January 3, 2022 and running until January 24. Its purpose is to share photos that each member has taken during the prior year. This might be the 3 photos that they feel best encapsulate their year, or are simply the ones they most wish to share by whichever criteria they choose. Anyone can participate by just joining the community.

Rules

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

3 for the Memories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they find meaningful in some way as a form of sharing different experiences with one another. If you have any questions, visit our masterpost and ask away!

olivermoss

I follow the twitter of a few photography related accounts on twitter, including some blogs, to try to stay in the loop on things. One thing I see often is professional photographers urging me not to pixel peep! I usually pixel peep. If you are unfamiliar, pixel peeping is when you pause after a photo to preview it, zoom in and check the fine details. Apparently, this is bad for some reason. Since I do a lot of shooting in the dark, and also shoot street art, I need to pixel peep. Shooting handheld in the dark is hard. Also, as I've learned the hard way, street art might not still be there the next day!

( Here are a few shots I've taken handheld in the dark recently where I totally pixel peeped: )

I've looked at a few of these articles I keep seeing in my feed, and apparently making sure you got a clear shot hurts your artistic self or stops people from experimenting? I am baffled by these explanations.

What common photography advice do you ignore?

olivermoss

My life has been dealing with roughly 1,500 old concert photos and trying to wrangle them: delete duplicates, color correct, etc. I still have a few with red eye problems I can't seem to fix with Lightroom, online tools or anything else I've tried.

For some where the colors are just borked I wasn't sure what to do with them, but I finally found my other brain cell and remembered that if color is being a problem, you can just make the color go away. Going from color to B&W changes the composition a lot but adding vignetting hides a variety of sins.

This is actor/musician Christian Kane and his band. That's who I have take literally over a thousand pictures of. He has a habit of putting his hand over his heart and looking at the audience at the end of sets for a moment and I don't have a good picture of that. I usually don't shoot at that part of the show at all. Better pics at my website, but I am also really, really charmed by these and wanted to do something with them even though they are 'bad' photos from a technical POV. I physically put my camera away for large portions on concerts so I focus on being there and don't even think about getting shots.

So now I am making B&W version of some of the photo sets. It's saved a few images.

My current website gallery is here. I'll be adding a few more and also separating out galleries like this into a secondary Secret Menu for geeky stuff.

olivermoss

My portrait lens has the tightest DoF of all my lenses. I've done concert photography, but I rarely shoot people who aren't on stages and wanted to learn. I got a portrait lens to learn with, but it arrived the week lockdown started.

Using a portrait lens for shooting a city as night has been a mixed experience. It's great for subject separation. The out of focus areas are gorgeous:

Also Portland has a LOT of skeletons, and shooting them like people works well.

On one hand, gorgeous boke, great subject separation, and a faster shutter speed which is key for night shoots.

On the end other hand, it's hard to be taking shots from so far back. It's a 90mm equivalent so I need to find a place to be a good chunk back from the subject.

Also, the lens has a softness I am not used to. I am used to lenses that are unforgivingly clear. This lens is more like 'fine texture? I don't now her'. The softness gives the images a film/analog look that is nice and arty, but I also find it frustrating. Still, the first picture in this post is my fave picture that I've taken recently.

( More shots on a portrait lens. Maybe more skeletons. )

olivermoss

When the bad weather hits do you stay inside or do you run out into it? I feel like that is a relevant discussion these days!

Only shooting I've done in a week is through my window:

olivermoss

I am currently working on a gallery to capture the flavor of Portland: the specific types of plants we have, local quirks, common building materials, moss, moss, more moss, etc. If any of you want to take this up as a challenge, I'd love to see your posts! Consider this sort of an open ended community challenge.

( How things are going for me so far )

yourlibrarian

threeforthememories is an annual community opening on January 3, 2021 and running until January 24. Its purpose is to share photos that each member has taken during the prior year. This might be the 3 photos that they feel best encapsulate their year, or are simply the ones they most wish to share by whichever criteria they choose. Anyone can participate by just joining the community.

Rules

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

olivermoss

Woof,I have no been shooting as much as I planned this year, but I have enough pictures of street art from unusual materials to have a page on my website of them. Wood, plaster, fiber arts, etc. Other street art and creepy galleries are in progress.

olivermoss

I've got ideas for months of weekly challenges, but what would you like to see added into the mix? Certain subjects? Compositions? Colors? Comment below!

Also, if you'd like to drive for a week just ask. If you have an idea for a challenge and would like to make the post for it, talk a bit about a type of photography you do, just let me know and we will work out a time.

olivermoss

Make a post with your shot at any time. The only rule is to use new work only, pictures taken after I make the prompt post, for the challenge response. Feel free to post old work in other posts or as comments to this post so you can give advice or ask for advice.

In the comments to this post, chat about what makes a good nighttime picture.

You can still post responses to previous challenges at any time. (I haven't posted mine yet!)

I've been doing a lot of night shooting. After midnight is the only time the city quiets down enough for me to go shooting without being in the way. I've been very interested in shots where a lot of the shot is dark or black for a while.

The trend for the past decade or so is shots that go heavy on light colors and/or white. A lot of photographers 'expose to the right', deliberately overexposing shots, to make the details pop online easier. Making darker shots as eye catching can be hard.

Old shot of Portland at night

Shooting in lower light conditions is more of a technical challenge. I've been struggling with focus, clarity, color, noise and other things.

Someday, a shot I took last night of a new store

( Read more... )

olivermoss

I am starting with flowers since they seem like the most popular type of shot here. The flowers do not need to be outside and you can interpret, or misinterpret, this prompt however you like.

Make a post with your shot at any time. The only rule is to use new work only, pictures taken after I make the prompt post, for the challenge response. Feel free to post old work in other posts or as comments to this post so you can give advice or ask for advice.

In the comments to this post, chat about what makes a good flower picture.

( A few thoughts of mine )

olivermoss

I was doing a photography challenge that was supposed to last all quarantine. Even the person running it lost interest fairly quickly and started pivoting back to their usual work.

I am used to creating work and getting some form of engagement with it on a regular basis and that interaction is mostly gone for me.

Now that this has been going on for a while, how are people dealing with it? Would doing any challenges or events here be helpful?

olivermoss

How are you approaching this? Are you shooting or not? Are you doing things to stay in practice while inside? Taking up indoor photography? Joining the macro trend?

I've put my thoughts and approach here. What are your thoughts?

olivermoss

I've been updating my gallery, putting up new shots and culling weaker shots. But I am keeping them in order so people can see the progression.

I still need to figure out today's shot.

olivermoss

So far I've learned that I don't have as many interesting things to shoot around my place as I thought I would. Also my landscape/urban photography skill sets don't translate great to studio work. Making shots instead of finding shots is weird!

Here is where I am posting shots as I get them.

olivermoss

With a lot of people doing 'social distancing' I am trying to come up with some indoor photography projects!

I used my light box to shoot my oldest and newest nets of dice:

I am also working on trying to take pictures of the inside of some of my lenses and seeing what else I can do with my lightbox.

What are other people doing? Let's share ideas!

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olivermoss - Editing Old Pictures
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olivermoss - First weekly challenge: Flowers!
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