100 triangles exercise - my first attempt

[rmettier]

After reading a lot about photography exercises and ideas on how to 'train your eye' etc. I thought I'd set myself a little challenge and see how it turned out. Here are my (self imposed) rules:

Shoot 100 triangles in everyday life (home, office, commute, etc.)
Do not set up motives, only things that are already there (no stacking cards to get triangles, etc.)
Use only my Canon 50mm 1.8 on my 7D
Shoot in Raw only.
Feel free to use post-processing tricks to enhance the 'triangle' aspect of the shots.

The goal was to eliminate my favorite subjects and compositions from the pool, forcing me to come to grips with all kinds of light conditions, colors, situations, etc. Hopefully, I can then see which combinations I have difficulty with and need practice.
Further, shooting only in Raw forces me to finally get some practice with processing raw images; something I've always shied away from - the jpegs are usually good enough, etc.
Also, training my eye to look for a specific shape in everyday places should make me be more aware of my surroundings, forcing me to take another look at things I've seen many times already.

Here are the results - feel free to comment, critique, rip me a new one, whatever you think is suitable.

EDIT: I've shared the album on Google+ too. If anyone still needs an invite, let me know.

[MeAgain]

awesome. I'm going to steal the idea. Thanks

[K38871]

Thats cool.

[Izzy]

This would be a trick for me. I seem to be on a circles kick. I can find about 2 dozen different circles on my desk alone. I think I will try this. Nice set by BTW. TFS

[NgaiHill]

What a great idea! Had a look at your shots so far, I'm not sure I would've even seen the triangle in some of those! Did you set yourself a time limit?
Maybe I need to try something like this.....

[rmettier]

Originally Posted by NgaiHill

What a great idea! Had a look at your shots so far, I'm not sure I would've even seen the triangle in some of those! Did you set yourself a time limit?
Maybe I need to try something like this.....

Time limit, yes, sort of. I initially set myself a limit of two days, but only managed around 90 instead of 100 (I had 100, but around 10 were so awful that I dropped them in postprocessing). Maybe three days or a week would be ideal.