Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/13

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Subject: Re: R: What's Your Hit Rate? Big Problem!
From: bholmes@frii.com (Ben Holmes)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:05:08 -0600 (MDT)

>My big problem is when look after a few days at my 30 good shots 
>I throw into a basket most of them.
>Then I get only 2 or 3 good shots every 10 rools!!!
>I'm not going to look at my old good shots............no more
>...............
>
>Bye
>
>     Guido Ridoli

Guido - you have just described my life! I cannot count how many times I've
printed til the wee hours, washed, dried and spotted my prints, and walked
away loving the results. Next day, I look at them again, and I like them.
About a week later I hate them.

This is the fate of the photographer who truly loves the craft - never being
satisfied with your results. I have always done this, but was only made
aware of it when I read "The Print" by A. Adams (our Spanish friend Jose
Luis called me cheap for borrowing the book from the library, "why so
cheap?", "Buy the book." nag nag nag). Anyway, in the book Adams describes
one of the images that he has labored on. In his description he writes that
he "should have" done such and such, or if he had it do over again he "would
have" done something diferent. I thought about it and wondered why he didn't
reprint the picture if he was unhappy with it. Then I realized that he
probably had - several times.

Regards,


Ben W. Holmes
Boulder, CO

Visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/
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