ItermarkHow the four guides fit together
One of them is the whole method in five steps. The other three each take one of those steps and go as deep as it needs. They are not a reading order — you need the one that matches what is going wrong with your series.
A map of the guides, not a product screenshot. Steps four and five share one guide because they are the same argument: a timeline is only useful if the middle of it exists.
Which one you need
If you have never started a series, read the five-step checklist and nothing else — the rest will make more sense once you have three entries to look at.
After that, pick by symptom. Frames that will not line up between entries is an overlay problem. A pair that looks like change when nothing changed is an angle problem. Having only a first and a last photo, and wishing you had the week in between, is a timeline problem. The project pages below apply all of it to a specific kind of work.
How to take before-and-after project photos
Camera height, distance, orientation, light, and the small habits that make a series easier to compare.
Car restoration
Use fixed landmarks through bodywork, primer, paint and finish — or a furniture refinish.
Renovation
Show a room honestly from the same corner across a long project.
Gardens and studio work
Use fixed landmarks to make slow changes visible, in a bed or on a canvas.
Ghost overlay photography
Match fixed landmarks with the previous photo before taking the next entry.
Project photo timelines
Choose any two dates so the middle stages stay part of the story.
Same-angle progress photos
Lock camera height, distance, orientation, background, and light before the next frame.