Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Wed Aug 3 11:51:01 2005

Hi Steven King  (love your books  ;-)  )

How does this current workflow of yours compare with what it was when you
shot film?   Did you throw out negatives or slides which weren't explicity
needed for an asignment?

-dan c.

At 10:08 AM 03-08-05 -0700, Steven King wrote:
>Dan:  I work for a daily newspaper in Arizona, and I've just spent the past
>two hours shooting pix of storm damage from last night.  I went to about
>five different venues and shot about 300 pix on my D1 MkII.  After I got to
>the office, I edited in camera to about 30 pix, and those will get
>downloaded to my G4 for processing in PS and placement in today's edition.
>If I kept every shot ever taken on my digital, I could never work my way
>through all the shots of a particular assignment to locate the select ones.
>Just the practice at my paper.  Besides, when you shoot 2,000 assignments a
>year, the cost of archiving every trip of the shutter would be just too
>great.
>
>Happy snaps.
>
>Steven
>
>----------
>>From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca>
>>To: lug@leica-users.org
>>Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos
>>Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 6:53 AM
>>
>
>> An article by Freeman Patterson in Photo Life magazine raised a question
>> about how photojournalists using digital cameras treated their images.  He
>> suggested that the norm was for them to essentially delete their older
>> unused images, as opposed to film photographers who tend to keep their
>> negatives.   He illustrated this with the example of an old photo of 
>> Monica
>> Lewinsky meeting Bill Clinton in public that some photographer discovered
>> amongst his old negatives, and which has appeared numerous times in the
>> press.  Patterson claims, "None of the digital photographers had any such
>> visual records.  All their old images had been deleted."
>>
>> Is this a valid argument (or even a true one in the above example)?  I am
>> not a photojournalist, but I have kept the vast majority of the digital
>> images I've taken in the past 4 years, since I first started using digital
>> cameras, probably numbering between 15,000 and 20,000 images.   The only
>> images I delete are the ones where I am fooling around with or testing the
>> camera.
>>
>> But what about working photojournalists?   Do they routinely delete photos
>> (images) that aren't needed for a current assignment?
>>
>> -dan c.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Leica Users Group.
>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>
>_______________________________________________
>Leica Users Group.
>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>

In reply to: Message from sking at trivalleycentral.com (Steven King) ([Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos)