[Leica] Editing

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Tina,
I have twenty images in my wedding album, my son and his new wife have a 
culled one thousand five hundred, together with a seven minute video, 
and a twenty five minute longer version - including drone shots and 
whatever else you're having yourself.
I prefer brevity to boredom.

Life is short. Here is Miroslav Holub's poem - The Fly

She sat on a willow-trunk
watching
part of the battle of Crecy,
the shouts,
the gasps,
the groans,
the tramping and the tumbling.

During the fourteenth charge
of the French cavalry
she mated
with a brown-eyed male fly
from Vadincourt.

She rubbed her legs together
as she sat on a disembowelled horse
meditating
on the immortality of flies.

With relief she alighted
on the blue tongue
of the Duke of Clervaux.

When silence settled
and only the whisper of decay
softly circled the bodies

and only
a few arms and legs
still twitched jerkily under the trees,

she began to lay her eggs
on the single eye
of Johann Uhr,
the Royal Armourer.

And thus it was
that she was eaten by a swift
fleeing
from the fires of Estrees.

So I wouldn't get too caught up in editing: keep the lot. Look at most 
famous photographers - when they die, the most Joe Public gets to see is 
about one hundred of their images. Print one hundred of your best images.
Douglas



On 30/07/2019 23:35, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> PESO:
>
> I am cleaning up old files on my Drobo and trying to consolidate
> everything.  Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks with Maggie Steber, a
> photo editor, who helped me edit 50,000 of my Honduran photos down to about
> 24.  The problem is that I have many, many more than the original 50,000
> that she edited.  According to my LR files, I have 174,258 photos of
> Honduras.  If I spend the rest of my life editing them I will not finish.
> But just glancing through, it looks like there are a lot I would include in
> a final edit.  So what to do?  Recently, I have been going back editing old
> family photos of European trips.  Should I stop that and work on Honduras?
> I really am drawn to that because of their situation today.  The same thing
> applies to Guatemala.  I have over 150,000 photos of Guatemala.  If I edit
> those, I will never get to any other countries.
>
> I think I have answered my own question but I would appreciate your
> opinion, anyway.
>
> TIA
>
> TIna
>