On 2010-01-07 14:51, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
[...] my brother's father-in-law (there's gotta be a shorter way to say that)
Uncle in-law :-)
And it strikes me that when I'm going through a collection of photos where I tried different angles and lighting on the same subject, or where I shot lots of frames of some event, that culling the duds and picking out which of the good shots to consider redundant ... was a whole lot easier when I was sorting through a stack of 4x6 glossy proofs that I could easily shuffle, look at in twos and threes next to each other, etc. I haven't found an approach yet that feels anywhere near as smooth or natural on the computer.
I agree. For me, the problem is that I can't lay them all out "beside each other" at a reasonable resolution, when I'm comparing more than two images. And I'm using a 1920 x 1200 resolution monitor. If I had five hundred bucks lying around doing nothing, I'd get another 1920 x 1200 monitor, but that's of limited help, when compared to laying out an entire roll of 4"x6" or 5"x7" prints on the kitchen table. I'd need a monitor as big as the kitchen table to do it. :-)
(Maybe I need to team up with somebody who doesn't like taking photos but loves editing them, and whose aesthetic closely resembles mine.)
I have the same problem with the racing. I'm in it for the driving, and I don't really like working on the car. What I need is a partner who loves working on them but isn't into the driving side. They're around, but they're few and far between.
Anyhow, I just felt a need to whine about how long this instant technology is taking me. Now to get back to editing instead of whining for a while ...
It's actually gotten /much/ worse for me since moving to digital, but that's mainly due to the low cost of firing the shutter one more time. On film, I'd shoot maybe 350-500 frames a day at an auto race. On digital, it's more like 1,000-2,000 frames a day, with a lot more "duplicates and dross" to cull.
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