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 07/21/2004 08:39:15 PM · #1
How do you do it...

and something not quite so eloquent that I wrote in a similar vein.

Message edited by author 2004-07-21 20:40:12.
 07/22/2004 12:59:28 AM · #2
and the prize for the fastest sinking thread goes to...
 07/22/2004 01:03:18 AM · #3
Not so fast. I briefly scanned the article and actually passed it on to a non-DPCer. Thanks for posting. I'm a packrat when it comes to images and will soon run out of disk space if I don't do something soon.
 07/22/2004 09:51:44 AM · #4
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Not so fast. I briefly scanned the article and actually passed it on to a non-DPCer. Thanks for posting. I'm a packrat when it comes to images and will soon run out of disk space if I don't do something soon.


I've found the whole series of articles by that author really interesting. I see far too many pbase galleries full of every single shot taken on a particular day that happen to be in focus and not too badly exposed, rather than picking the actually good image.

I figure learning how to do that well might actually improve the pictures I take in the first place too.
 07/22/2004 01:21:21 PM · #5
I always ask myself if I can cleary define my subject and what the photograph is saying! Does the photo make you say WOW! That is the pic you need to keep!
 07/22/2004 01:31:29 PM · #6
I just had a chance to flip through the list of the other articles and find 'Selecting Film' quite interesting. I'll have to review it in more detail later.
 07/22/2004 01:35:12 PM · #7
On a similar vein how do you decide which are keepers when you shoot an event for other people? I know when I do personal shots what I like and what I want and what I consider the best, but I often find when shooting for other people that they tend to like the shots that I dont really care for. So do you just do the initial weeding of blurry and out of focus shots and hand over all the rest?

An example - last night I shot a party for a client who wanted me to capture the 'feel' of the event in photographs. Most of my shots are people talking to other people, eating, and drinking and to me they lack any real artistic value. If I had shot them for myself I would trash the lot. Do you just hand over all the shots even if you think they suck?
 07/22/2004 01:41:44 PM · #8
Originally posted by moodville:
On a similar vein how do you decide which are keepers when you shoot an event for other people? I know when I do personal shots what I like and what I want and what I consider the best, but I often find when shooting for other people that they tend to like the shots that I dont really care for. So do you just do the initial weeding of blurry and out of focus shots and hand over all the rest?

An example - last night I shot a party for a client who wanted me to capture the 'feel' of the event in photographs. Most of my shots are people talking to other people, eating, and drinking and to me they lack any real artistic value. If I had shot them for myself I would trash the lot. Do you just hand over all the shots even if you think they suck?


This is difficult since you are just guessing at what the client may like.

Do any of them portray any emotion at all related to the event? Maybe try and put yourself in the place of the individuals you photographed.

Don't shoot me for suggesting photoshop but maybe boosting contrast or some other effect may help elicit the mood of the event. Just a suggestion.
 07/22/2004 02:06:05 PM · #9
Originally posted by moodville:
On a similar vein how do you decide which are keepers when you shoot an event for other people? I know when I do personal shots what I like and what I want and what I consider the best, but I often find when shooting for other people that they tend to like the shots that I dont really care for. So do you just do the initial weeding of blurry and out of focus shots and hand over all the rest?

An example - last night I shot a party for a client who wanted me to capture the 'feel' of the event in photographs. Most of my shots are people talking to other people, eating, and drinking and to me they lack any real artistic value. If I had shot them for myself I would trash the lot. Do you just hand over all the shots even if you think they suck?


That's why wedding photographers create "proof books" with most of the shots that don't have obvious problems (Bride's eyes closed, milk coming out Grandma's nose etc) and let the couple make the final cut.

Maybe you can try that approach.
 07/22/2004 03:38:45 PM · #10
Speaking of "keepers", Pixort "is a FREE tool for reviewing, comparing, sorting and culling photographic image files. It is not yet another photo archiving and organizing tool: it is dedicated to the initiation of a digital photography workflow"
 07/22/2004 04:41:09 PM · #11
Thanks, I have the terrible task of saving pictures to DVD and always tough for me to make my final choices
07/22/2004 05:19:40 PM · #12
Yes, thank you! I have hundreds of images from a recent event and I've been putting off editing them because it's too hard to go through them all.
 07/22/2004 05:26:51 PM · #13
Photoshop CS seems to have a lot of the features that Pixort has.

My main pain with the File Browser is that the tagging and ranking keys are uncomfortable to me, and seem to be impossible to change/ reconfigure.
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