Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Chicago..now Editing
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Apr 22 10:35:18 2007
References: <3a5270110704220836q44eca75au40cea3027b6a32f7@mail.gmail.com> <83643105-91E0-4414-9586-43AB83E96B3D@pandora.be>

On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Philippe Orlent wrote:

> The best way to edit yourself (and not leave it to an unbiassed  
> person, which is better anyway) is to put the images away for some  
> time (say two weeks, with your shooting rythm: this way your first  
> memory (where and when taken, what the situation was etc.) will be  
> less strong, which will give you a more 'objective' judgement), and  
> then to review them. The good ones will pop out automatically.
> What I do very often (since I don't use Lightroom) is to view  
> everything in Bridge, and narrow down the selection by giving them  
> stars. This gives you about 5 steps (5 stars) to find the ones you  
> really like.
> Another important thing, which you will certainly must have read  
> about on this list (and I'm not very good at this), is to never  
> throw away any original, even after your edit: one reviewing day  
> might may give you a slightly different selection vs. the other,  
> not to speak of reviewing images of several years old, which  
> sometimes suddenly get a whole new relevance.


doing some of this now...can't agree more ! especially about keeping  
all images, and review again after several years...

Steve


In reply to: Message from cschweda at gmail.com (cschweda) ([Leica] Re: Chicago. Oh no not again. Editing and Lightroom.)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Re: Chicago. Oh no not again. Editing and Lightroom.)