Photo Documenting Progress

Photo documenting project progress captures progress so you can see it. When finished, the photos will be the only record of progress. If serious problems arise, this visual record will also document conditions.

Use a digital camera and the method discussed in Planning –Photo Documenting Existing Conditions, and make a habit of taking pictures regularly.

How often you take pictures depends on your project’s size and pace. For large projects, documenting a minimum of once or twice a week is probably ok. For small, faster moving projects, photo documenting more often is suitable.

Take as many pictures as you like and as often as you like and save them. It’s better to have too many pictures than too few. Take multiple pictures of the same items from multiple and opposing perspectives.

• If something looks interesting, photograph it.
• If you don’t know what it is, photograph it.
• If it looks right, photograph it anyway.
• If it looks wrong, photograph it more.

Get the picture?