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Subject: RE: [Leica] Steve Unsworth PAW 27 alternative alternative
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:03:18 +0200

Ted

I've promoted the alternative alternative to full alternative statue :-)
It's at...

http://www.steveunsworth.co.uk/PAW/week_27alt4.htm

You are right about editing being hard. For example week 27s shot were
all taken last Sunday. I got through 5 rolls of film. My normal
procedure is to scan the films and then look at what's there and select
the 'possibles'. These are basically the shots that I feel have some
(any?) merit. For week 27 there were 18 possibles. I knew when I was
doing this initial edit that one of the shots of the girls would be the
PAW - sometime this happens, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes the PAW has
been obvious when the shutter was pressed. From the 18 'finalists' I
then started deleting shots. Of these 18 about 50% could be got rid of
without too much difficulty. Then the really hard work began of
selecting the final 4. This is the _really_ difficult part where an
independent voice would be sooo useful.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ted Grant
Sent: 14 July 2002 03:12
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Steve Unsworth PAW 27 alternative alternative


<snip>

Some of you wonder why some professionals have someone who works with
them as an independent voice on the quality of the photographs from any
assignment?

In my case, I have Sandy Carter who with her editing comments can almost
put me on the floor in tears with her hard nose truthful editing! Trust
me, sometimes I want to almost choke her.... but I can't do that, simply
because she's one of the best photo editors I know.

She can make you think you're the king one day and rip you assunder the
next, but damn she's good and 99.99999% of the time right. So that makes
her almost a perfect photo editor. And when we've been on an assignment
together, OH jeeeeeessssus! She's even worse, because she remembers all
the ithings I should've taken and didn't, or did it poorly in her eyes.

So Steve my friend the next time you have two beautiful picture moments
like this... post both as the main  ..... then let the gals and guys
sort it out for themselves. ;-)

That ,or I'll send Sandy over to Paris to twist yer tail! ;-)

ted

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