In a message dated 10/15/2007 7:05:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you decide what to cut and what to keep when you've shot more than one good photo of a subject?
Assuming you feel like all or most of the photos of said subject are good, how do you distance yourself from your personal attachment to your work or subject, in order to objectively edit it all down to something more manageable than (for instance) the big ol' gallery I posted over the weekend? Objectivity is the goal, I think. How do you achieve it? John (the above is all one question, phrased in different ways) =============== Well, duplicates aren't good in GESO/gallery. A duplicate adds no new information. I use Ifranview or Lightroom when I have several shots that are similar and I go back and forth and back and forth looking at them quickly in succession. Usually one will pop at me as the one I like slightly better. It's purely a gut feeling, but I trust my eye that I can usually pick out the one that is slightly more appealing. It may differ slightly as to lighting and or composition. Sometimes they are very similar and it's a close call. So I may not be able to pinpoint why I like it better, I just do. In other words, I let my eye(s) tell me, "that's the one." Hope that helps. Marnie aka Doe ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
