Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, For What It Is Worth. I am not a professional, but I enjoy taking good photographs as well. I, too, end up with 10-15k photographs after every safari. On the road, I just store them in three different places (External Hard Drive + two Hyperdrives). After I return, I do not look at them for 2-3 weeks, a tip from John Shaw, because it makes editing them easier as you are more divorced from the emotions that you had when taking the shots. After that I sit down and very quickly and ruthlessly prune it down to 1000 shots or so - and I mean ruthless - any flaw and I junk it, and I completely trust my first impressions - this just takes me 2-3 days. Then I again leave the pruned list for a week or so, then carefully go through it and whittle it down to a manageable 500 or so. If I miss a few potentially good ones by this method, it does not bother me too much. However, as one of my permanent backups, I keep the entire set of RAW files on one of the drives inside the hyperdrive intact - storage is cheap, and who knows? :-) Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I have learned over the past few days that the LUG family is just as > dysfunctional as any real family. > > I really appreciate the off-list, on-list and phone messages of support. I > would not still be a participant here without them. > > I will not be posting daily photos for review. I will be posting them on > pBase with an update to the LUG whenever I fill a page of photos. You can > look or not. You can comment or not. I will edit by myself or hire > somebody eventually. > > More than one of you commented that my style of photography has changed > since the days of B&W and Noctilux and families in Honduras. I can no > longer travel to Honduras and stay with families for a week at a time. I > can no longer focus the Noctilux. I am old. I am still in business as a > professional photographer because it's too expensive to be a hobby for me. > Color sells. B&W doesn't. If I could make a living with B&W, that is what > I would shoot. > > Thank you to those who understand. > > Tina > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >