[Leica] Editing

[Gerry Walden]

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
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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
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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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