I decided to up my photography skills by setting myself a challenge. To make it more interesting there will be rules. 

• One black and white photo posted each day.
• All photos are to be taken using my cameras viewfinder. No using the screen.
• Camera set to ‘greyscale’ mode. When I look in the viewfinder… WYSIWYG¹.
• Take one photo of each scene/subject. No shooting off multiple photos (spray and pray) hoping one will accidentally turn out OK².
• No peeking at any photos until the end of the day³. At that time the most interesting photo is to be selected and the rest will be deleted. A clean slate for the next day.
• Don’t overthink it. This is meant to be fun. The exercise is all about learning to look in greyscale…and to see the art in the world.
• Minimal editing⁴.

1. WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get. Most photographers recommend shooting in colour mode and then desaturating to greyscale afterwards with editing software. I like the idea of ‘seeing’ the scene in B&W realtime to get an idea of the picture ↩︎
2. Most of these rules are to simulate using film, which I like the idea of…but developing film is expensive ↩︎
3. ditto…half the fun is in the waiting to see how the photo turns out….just like with film ↩︎
4. There are plenty of advanced editing apps such as Lightroom that also have pretty advanced subscription fees. I use a more modest (but capable) app called Polarr ↩︎