Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I have twenty images in my wedding album, my son and his new wife have a culled one thousand five hundred, together with a seven minute video, and a twenty five minute longer version - including drone shots and whatever else you're having yourself. I prefer brevity to boredom. Life is short. Here is Miroslav Holub's poem - The Fly She sat on a willow-trunk watching part of the battle of Crecy, the shouts, the gasps, the groans, the tramping and the tumbling. During the fourteenth charge of the French cavalry she mated with a brown-eyed male fly from Vadincourt. She rubbed her legs together as she sat on a disembowelled horse meditating on the immortality of flies. With relief she alighted on the blue tongue of the Duke of Clervaux. When silence settled and only the whisper of decay softly circled the bodies and only a few arms and legs still twitched jerkily under the trees, she began to lay her eggs on the single eye of Johann Uhr, the Royal Armourer. And thus it was that she was eaten by a swift fleeing from the fires of Estrees. So I wouldn't get too caught up in editing: keep the lot. Look at most famous photographers - when they die, the most Joe Public gets to see is about one hundred of their images. Print one hundred of your best images. Douglas On 30/07/2019 23:35, Tina Manley via LUG wrote: > PESO: > > I am cleaning up old files on my Drobo and trying to consolidate > everything. Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks with Maggie Steber, a > photo editor, who helped me edit 50,000 of my Honduran photos down to about > 24. The problem is that I have many, many more than the original 50,000 > that she edited. According to my LR files, I have 174,258 photos of > Honduras. If I spend the rest of my life editing them I will not finish. > But just glancing through, it looks like there are a lot I would include in > a final edit. So what to do? Recently, I have been going back editing old > family photos of European trips. Should I stop that and work on Honduras? > I really am drawn to that because of their situation today. The same thing > applies to Guatemala. I have over 150,000 photos of Guatemala. If I edit > those, I will never get to any other countries. > > I think I have answered my own question but I would appreciate your > opinion, anyway. > > TIA > > TIna >