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Subject: [Leica] Editing
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:48:05 -0500
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Your point is well taken, Gerry. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/31/2019 8:11 AM, Gerry Walden via LUG wrote:
> The respected British photographer Snowden once said if you take 100 phots 
> of which one is good, and you show them the 100 they think you are crap. 
> If you just show them the one they think you are great. It is not a bad 
> maxim to go by.
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden
> 023 8046 3076
> 0797 287 7932
>
>> On 31 Jul 2019, at 14:08, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Gerry -  That's exactly how I edit with the stars.  It is a very
>> time-consuming process, though!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:58 AM Gerry Walden via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> I would start on either Guatemala or Honduras, which ever one you think
>>> most viable.
>>>
>>> What I tend to do is use the star rating in LR. I go through and give the
>>> better ones 3 stars. That cuts them down, and you can then just view the 
>>> 3
>>> star ones by using ?attribute? in the Library panel. I then go through 
>>> that
>>> batch and either uprate them to 4 star or downrate then to 2 star. I then
>>> just view the four star and do the up or down grade cull over again so I
>>> end up with just the 5 stars.
>>>
>>> I don?t envy you, I think editing is te most time consuming and boring 
>>> job
>>> in photography.
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>>
>>> Gerry Walden
>>> www.gwpics.com
>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 30 Jul 2019, at 23:35, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> 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
>>>>
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