[Leica] Editing

Fri Aug 2 11:13:13 PDT 2019

Tina,

I have not yet commented about your question, I haven’t followed all the comments, this take some time for me in English, but I specially agree those from Mark Rabiner and Gerry. I’m sure that the main pictures of your big work has already been edited and I think rarely new ones will give us new values. I suppose that the pictures you mention are from film time and maybe you kept the contact sheets, for me these have a great value, choose the more significant, they will show us the evolution about the manner you have decided tell us a story with your final selected picture.

It is always very difficult make a choice of our pictures, we make undreds, thousends but the ones that finally remain are a few ones. It is very nice share in the LUG our pictures, but wit all my respect to all of us, we show good pictures,  this is normal for experienced good photographers as the ones of this list but real good pictures… how many in a year per person?

When I have to select pictures …. is like a nightmare for me and frequently I remember and read again and again the Sergio Larrain’s words:

<<Enlarge your framed compositions and put them up on the wall. To live with them. To see them as you pass by.
If you are sure a Photo is no good, throw it away!. Take the better ones and stick them a little higher up up on the wall, in the end you will have kept only the good ones, and no others. Holding on to the mediocre ones will condemn you to mediocrity. Keep the “hits” only, the really arresting images, throw out the rest because everything you keep will be retained in the unconscious.>>
Sergio Larrain, letter to Sebastian Donoso, 1982

Cheers
Lluis

> El 1 ag 2019, a les 21:46, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> va escriure:
> 
> 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
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> 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
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>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>>> 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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