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Subject: [Leica] Plethora of pictures NOW EDIT RULES!
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:15:19 -0800
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Lawrence Zeitlin asked:
>>That works out to 7780 pictures a
> year or over 21 pictures a day, nearly 2 every waking hour, rain or shine.
> And people say that drugs or alcohol are addictions. Is there a 12 step
> program for photographers? Help me before I snap again!<<<<<<<

Good day Larry,

Yep as simple a program as can be. Rather ruthless one might feel, but it 
works!!!!!!!!!!!

1/  EDIT RUTHLESSLY! SHOW NO MERCY! KEEP NO PRISONERS IF NOT PERFECT!

2/  IF THERES THE LEAST  BIT OF CAMERA SHAKE! ( and your heart is over 
riding your brain like "aaahh gee            whiz it's only alittle bit and 
it's still kind of nice!"   IT'S HISTORY!

3/ THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF ALL.  "IS THIS ONE OF MY ALL TIME TEN BEST 
EVER SHOT            PICTURES?"  If the answer is no ... IT'S HISTORY.

4/  DON'T PUT THEM IN A CABINET AND COME BACK LATER! THEY'LL STILL BE OUT OF 
FOCUS 6                   MONTHS LATER! THEY'RE HISTORY!

Follow these simple rules  and you will only have the cream of the crop! No 
point in keeping half assed images you will for the rest of your life have 
to make an excuse why it isn't perfect everytime you show it!!

And accept the fact: " NO PHOTOGRAPHER HAS EVER BEEN PERFECT ON EVERY 
EXPOSURE!" oh heavens there are a few who think they do! :-( But then 
they're the overblown idiots!

SO EDIT LIKE IT MEANS YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! TRUST ME IT'S A TOUGH CALL, 
BUT PERCEIVER!

I really learned the hard way through experince!.. Imagine editting the 
numbers of images to create a National Archived collction of 380,000 images. 
That's all keepers! :-) BE RUTHLESS!

cheers,
Dr. ted :-)



" <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
To: "Leica LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 9:32 AM
Subject: [Leica] Plethora of pictures


> In keeping with a New Year's resolution I tried to clean up my 12" 
> Powerbook
> hard disk and store all my images on another drive. A Spotlight search of
> .jpg in the hard drive revealed that I have over 38900 image files. I've
> only owned this little laptop since 2005. That works out to 7780 pictures 
> a
> year or over 21 pictures a day, nearly 2 every waking hour, rain or shine.
> And people say that drugs or alcohol are addictions. Is there a 12 step
> program for photographers? Help me before I snap again! And I have two 
> more
> computers to go.
> Larry Z
>
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