Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<Don't tell me this! :-( Editing is the hardest thing I do. There is no way I could save everything, but it stil kills me to throw away something I "might be able to use someday". I find my ratio of discards is directly related to the available light. When there is almost no light, I am happy to get one or two savers on a roll. Without Leica M's and fast lenses even those would be impossible. The out-of-focus or motion-affected shots get thrown out. If I saved them all, I'd have to build another house!>> Jerry throws his contact sheets onto a table and spends hours mixing and matching parts and pieces together. When he finds a set that 'work' together he digs out the negs and sets up his multiple englargers, each with an individual neg in the carrier. With some prestidigitation blocking, dodging, and setting up- he ends up with those provocative, interesting images. Know what you mean about building a separate house to store it all, but it's a good idea to make some arrangement to save even 'rejects'. For posterity sake at least.