Ashley and I wanted to start this project right after we found out that she was pregnant. We wanted to take a picture, or in this case many pictures, each week that she was moving along during pregnancy. Hoping at the end we could have something fun to look back on. Well this came out so much better than I even imagined!

In my previous 52 week project I used a new program I found that ran an action or actions that allowed you to customize a tych panel. It takes a little figuring out but once you get it, it really works. And this was so simple I couldn't believe it! If I tried doing this by hand I would still be aligning things when Cooper goes off to college!

I couldn't be happier on how well the pictures turned out from week to week. We had our spots in the kitchen and I had my settings for the camera and flash. I sold the lens I started with and bought another a little more than mid-way through but they played nice together editing wise. I would change a few things: 1) I would not shoot Auto White Balance - I would manually select WB to make it much easier later. That was my biggest hurdle in post-processing. 2) I would have noted what focal length I was at on my lens. In each week I might have been a little more zoomed in or out. But in all reality, I like how each picture is not 100% the same. That would look a little fake I think.

So if you can't figure it out, the collage goes in both directions: left to right and top to bottom. If you look at each row, they are all the same pose going left to right. And going from top to bottom you see different poses from the same week. Across the top, the weeks go:

Week 11, 14, 18, 21, 24, 28, 31, 34 & 38

So all in all, I must say this is the best photography/photoshop project I have done. Or certainly the longest project I have completed! It just worked out exactly how I had imagined it. And having something come out nearly identical to how you plan it when it comes to photography/photoshop is not easy!