[Leica] Some help please for rating pictures for my exhibition

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Ted, of course, is totally right.

Make your own decisions, Lluis, as your own eyes looking at the prints will 
know whether the particular print reflects what you were trying to achieve 
when you pressed the shutter button at the time.

My choices from your work possibly wouldn't coincide with yours or others - 
I'd delete everything without eye contact for instance unless there's a 
particular symmetry shown - but at the end of the day it's all about what 
YOU want to show.

Douglas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Some help please for rating pictures for my exhibition


> Hi Lluis,
> My immediate response is???? Go with your own HEART and GUT FEELINGS! 
> It's
> your show! It isn't easy for the final selection. However, it is best "YOU
> CUT IT RIGHT DOWN TO YOUR DECISION!"
>
> Be tough in your selection, one more time! Then go back and do it again 
> even
> tighter! THEN AGAIN ONE MORE TIME!!!  Certainly before you throw it open 
> for
> the many hundreds of eyes from the LUG! Who will more than likely create 
> the
> biggest confusion you'll ever have in your life!:-( IT WOULD AND WILL BE A
> MASS OF CONFUSION!
>
> Selection by the masses never works!! As they can't hardly agree on a 
> single
> Friday Flower?
> And you think the LUG Rat-Pack are going to select the best photos
> representing some of the best work of your life?
>
> NEVER HAPPEN MY FRIEND!! :-( BITE THE BULLET AND SELECT YOUR OWN!!!! And 
> if
> you should go for some selection advice? Have a few of the lads living 
> there
> in Europe who can stand by your side and look at real prints while
> discussing the selection!! Not off the screen!
>
> I've had to edit the works of many hundreds of photographers during my
> tenure as assisting director of the NFB Stills department back in the 
> early
> '70s! Trust me, "A gang bang edit selection effort?"
>
> ISN'T WORTH THE EFFORT AS IT ONLY CREATES A HUGE AMOUNT OF CONFUSION FOR 
> THE
> ARTIST WHOSE PHOTOGRAPHY WILL BE SHOWN!
>
> Ask yourself this question? "Would HCB ask more than 200 photographers to
> select his images for a gallery showing of his photography?"   NOT ON YOUR
> LIFE! So suck it up, edit hard and tough and do it several times and 
> during
> different times of the day! Walk away if and when you feel stressed out!
> That's why you edit at different times of the day and only when you feel 
> up
> for another look!
>
> But for heaven's sake do not post them for the LUG CREW to select! 
> Complete
> confusion will reign.
> cheers,
> Dr. ted
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
>>Behalf 
>>Of
> Lluis Ripoll
> Sent: February-13-15 6:47 PM
> To: Leica Users Group; MUGers at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Leica] Some help please for rating pictures for my exhibition
>
>
> With the person of the Gallery we have selected 200 pictures from my
> archives, in the exhibition there is place for 60 pictures. I have do my 
> own
> selection and pre-selected 102, I have to reject 42.
>
> There is some website or maybe in Wordpress where I can upload the 200
> pictures and be rated? On such case I would ask for your possible help and
> your ratings will help a lot. Thank you in advance if some of you have 
> some
> information.
>
> Saludos cordiales
> Lluis
>
>
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