[Leica] A bit of a retrospective

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Ted, mon ami

Amen, Amen, Amen....

I can only add two things:

I follow your advice "If in doubt ...OUT!", but the Sandy's question  
is very hard to answer, it is a very good question, but on this case I  
will decrease a lot my postings

cheers
Lluis

El 05/09/2011, a las 17:32, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca>  
escribi?:

> Steve Unsworth offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] A bit of a retrospective
>
>>> Ted, thanks for taking the time to look at them. I've now added a  
>>> few more.
>
> There are a couple I'm not as happy about as the others, but editing  
> is always something I found difficult. I guess if I'm not sure about  
> them they deserve to be deleted.<<<<<<<
> ============
> Hi Steve,
> As you and the rest of the crew know.... "We are our own worst  
> editors!" It's a constant dilemma over the years as the shooter has  
> far more involvement than just shooting the image.. "getting there,  
> the emotion level at the time, the light and many other factors  
> determining a choice on the light table or computer screen!"
>
> I tried to work on the feelings of.... "If in doubt.... OUT!" and  
> the shot wasn't used. Just put aside. Sometimes a tough call when  
> the image has a high level of emotion attached at the moment of  
> exposure! But you can go back for a second look as a good measure  
> just in case.
>
> When Sandy Carter worked with me she was a ruthless editor always on  
> my case about quality of images! Her usual knife cutting comment?  "  
> Do you mean to tell me that is one of your all time very best 10  
> photographs?" Sounds simple, right?
>
> Actually, I think I feared the tone in her voice more, because  
> sometimes it was like a rusty old razor blade being slowly dragged  
> across your throat! :-) Oh we had some great "too & froes"  
> verbally.:-)  But she always won as "she didn't have shooting the  
> image emotions attached to the shot!" She was just a superlative  
> editor looking at a photograph and delivering her vicious C&C to  
> make me keep a high level of the photos expected of me.
>
> My wife is similar in editing. But then she has 61 years experience  
> since the beginning when she gave me my first camera as a birthday  
> gift May 27, 1950! And watching me grow as a photographer, the heart  
> breaks and glories. Her perspective is similar to Sandy's. Trust me  
> you don't want to have the two of them at the light table at the  
> same time when they are agreeing with each other!!!! :-)  ME? I was  
> on the floor cringing like whupped dog! ;-)
>
> Yes and sometimes I won. Rarely! :-)
>
> So Steve, the quiet "If in doubt, out" system usually works fairly  
> well! :-)
>
> But yer lookin' good so far! Please keep them coming because these  
> days?????? The best work comes from the past!
>
> cheers,
> ted
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> On 4 Sep 2011, at 17:07, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> I've started to upload some photographs from the last 10 years or  
>> so to 500px. So far there are 20 there and they at the moment I'm  
>> only uploading black and white images.
>>
>> You can see them here?
>>
>> http://500px.com/Steve_Unsworth
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>> My feelings on uploading older photos is..... "It's good for the  
>> heart and soul of the poster!" Many of us shot so many different  
>> subjects over the years that we hardly remember shooting many of  
>> them. :-)
>>
>> But what this does for the crew is? They see the mixture of our  
>> subjects that don't exist today or we have moved onto to quite  
>> different subject material.
>>
>> You've a neat selection so far and I'm looking foreward to others.  
>> Thanks,
>
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