Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Those shots from way back which I'd not even put a red x on or the ones in the digital past ten years with no stars on them which end up being way better than the five star ones and are otherwise rocking my world I call them "sleepers". They come back to haunt you when you least expect it. "I took that picture?!?" This just happened to me a bunch because I complied a bunch of 80's fashion to show a bunch of people and it meant spending hours looking through the scans I have here and realizing the main shot from before which ran in the paper was not as good by a long shot as the one in the next row. On 3/22/15 2:12 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > On behalf of "look again later," unfortunately had slipped through the few > brain cells I still retain.. > > In my case I still have a great......... read huge numbers of > negatives/slides from assignments beginnig 50 years ago and in particular > "special assignments that haven't been looked at in 40 years or more? > > HOWEVER!! It is most essential we go back into those "special keeper files" > because we will inevitably find some amazing images we passed by because at > the time, "yes we kind of saw something there but didn't recognize until > later years with 30 more years of "photographic picture SEEING EXPERINCE!" > And a sense of better editing > > I have often said to myself . 'HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THAT?" And it is a > photo from a previous shoot only 40 years ago. "LENGTH OF TIME WHEN > RE-LOOKING AGAIN?" Can be the most revealing of some of the best photos you > have ever exposed. > > So on behalf of all and our somewhat barking bit of editing diatribe please > accept my possible "bite yer bottoms comments!" > > cheers, > Dr. ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of > Mark Rabiner > Sent: March-21-15 10:24 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Family > > I agree with this completely. > I think getting space away from your pictures is invaluable. Giving them > some time off away from you. > To be able to see them later. And make it so you're almost seeing them for > the first time. I call it regaining my perspective. > Its always what I'm striving for with my work so I can better determine its > true value. > Shots I'd done the day before all look the same. Pretty Good. > > I think some of this also applies to printing. You have to see them later > to know which ones are the ones you want to show people. > > I just finished pissing off a client because I couldn't make editing > decisions until a few days later. And I told him I'd have them for him in a > couple of days. A couple as in two. > > > On 3/22/15 12:22 AM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Tina, >> For What It Is Worth. I am not a professional, but I enjoy taking good >> photographs as well. >> >> I, too, end up with 10-15k photographs after every safari. On the road, I >> just store them in three different places (External Hard Drive + two >> Hyperdrives). After I return, I do not look at them for 2-3 weeks, a tip >> from John Shaw, because it makes editing them easier as you are more >> divorced from the emotions that you had when taking the shots. After that > I >> sit down and very quickly and ruthlessly prune it down to 1000 shots or so >> - and I mean ruthless - any flaw and I junk it, and I completely trust my >> first impressions - this just takes me 2-3 days. Then I again leave the >> pruned list for a week or so, then carefully go through it and whittle it >> down to a manageable 500 or so. If I miss a few potentially good ones by >> this method, it does not bother me too much. >> >> However, as one of my permanent backups, I keep the entire set of RAW > files >> on one of the drives inside the hyperdrive intact - storage is cheap, and >> who knows? :-) >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Well, I have learned over the past few days that the LUG family is just > as >>> dysfunctional as any real family. >>> >>> I really appreciate the off-list, on-list and phone messages of support. > I >>> would not still be a participant here without them. >>> >>> I will not be posting daily photos for review. I will be posting them on >>> pBase with an update to the LUG whenever I fill a page of photos. You > can >>> look or not. You can comment or not. I will edit by myself or hire >>> somebody eventually. >>> >>> More than one of you commented that my style of photography has changed >>> since the days of B&W and Noctilux and families in Honduras. I can no >>> longer travel to Honduras and stay with families for a week at a time. I >>> can no longer focus the Noctilux. I am old. I am still in business as a >>> professional photographer because it's too expensive to be a hobby for > me. >>> Color sells. B&W doesn't. If I could make a living with B&W, that is > what >>> I would shoot. >>> >>> Thank you to those who understand. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com >>> >>> > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/ > T >>> ina+Manley.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/