Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net>wrote: > Tina, thanks for an interesting and informative post. > > I'm curious: About how long did it take her to make the first run > through the original 6000+ images? > Three days, working about three or four hours a day. > > I've been reading about Robert Frank's editing of the photographs he > shot during his 2 year road trip that led to the making of his book > The Americans. I have read he shot over 27,000 frames which he then > edited down into the 83 that wound up in the book. Did she mention > him in her discussions? > Yes, we talked a lot about Robert Frank and looked at his work. We spent part of each morning going over different photographers' work. She is a great believer in looking at as much photography as possible. She said it's especially valuable when you can see selected and rejected work in contact sheets. > > In an article in the November 18, 2009 Online Wall Street Journal, the > reviewer Richard Woodward talks about this process and says > "Everything was sacrificed to the flow across pages and the four > sections of the book." (The article may be available online at > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574477761913139506.html > or http://tinyurl.com/ylaqmaz but you may need a subscription to read > it.) > > This concept of 'flow' from image to image is something I'm really > trying to wrestle down to the ground. > > When you talk about "the way she edited my 6000+ down to 136" I am > also curious to know if she did this on the computer or if you had > work prints made from your almost-final selection. > We worked only in LightRoom. She said ideally we would have had prints made and she expects me to do that now. We just didn't have time after the final selection. > > I can't find a monitor big enough to allow me to view and rearrange > near that many shots and I sure can't remember what I've got and where > I put it on my own. > > LightRoom is excellent for this. I had them all organized by families - 20 different families. We went through one family at a time and marked each photo as flagged or unflagged for A & B edits. Then we assigned numbered ratings for aesthetics and colors for like situations in the A edit. It makes sorting and viewing much faster and more organized. Then you can pull up two similar images and compare them, selecting one. I don't think it would have been possible to edit them in a week without LightRoom. Tina > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com