[Leica] Editing

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On a related vein Avedon said it's not what you shoot it's what you show 
them.  
It's what they see. 
Control your work!  
(major paraphrase.)

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 7/31/19, 9:11 AM, "LUG on behalf of Gerry Walden via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> 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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