[Leica] Editing

Fri Aug 2 19:52:22 PDT 2019

Tina,
I have not waded into this as yet. Typically, after a safari of 10 days, I
will have 15k-20k shots. I let them lie untouched for about 7-10 days after
I come back, to get the emotions of taking any photograph out of it, and
start editing. I normally whittle that down to 500-600 frames in a couple
of days (not too difficult as the numbers are made up of tons of nearly
identical shots, thanks to big buffers and high FPS!). When editing (i.e.
eliminating), I go by pure trust in my subconscious - if I instantly like a
composition, I keep it, otherwise it goes on the chopping board. I might
miss a few good ones this way, but I am left with the vast majority of
keepers to further analyze and process.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 12:21 AM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Thanks, Lluis!  That's valuable information and a great quote.  I wish I
> did print out more of my photos but these days I'm usually looking at them
> on the computer screen.  Ink is so expensive!!  I only print out photos
> when they are going to be exhibited somewhere.  I do have two 24" screens
> to view them on and somebody suggested I try Photo Mechanic for editing.
> That is a life-changer!!  The files pop up so fast and so big it makes
> editing much, much faster.  I'm still using LR to develop the photos but
> Photo Mechanic for editing is the way to go.
>
> I appreciate all of the advice!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Tina
>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 2:13 PM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > 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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