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12/10/2005 06:52:26 PM · #1 |
Or are there other people out there who experience this.
Sometimes when I take a truckload of photos at once, I come back to them and dump them all on the computer. Then as I look through the shots, I narrow them down somewhat and decide which shots are worth pursuing, and thus putting more time in. Is it only me, or do you sometimes think that you miss a shot that could potentially be great? Sometimes I feel that if I looked through a set of shots and pulled out my "best" 5 photos, and then if a professional photographer did the same, that there would be a difference. Does this make sense?
Sometimes I see shots around that had I taken it, I would have never chosen them to pass my cut. Yet, some photographers can take these images and manipulate them into masterpieces. Does anyone share my frustration?
Or have I just gone mad? <--- rhetorical
Thanks,
Lee
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12/10/2005 07:05:39 PM · #2 |
I think I understand what you're saying....and I think I can sympathize :-) Try experimenting some time with a REALLY crummy image that you've taken and see how good you can get it to come out. It helps give you some idea of what's salvageable and what's not.
I ALWAYS snap more pictures than I ever keep...I would just feel much better knowing that I got the good shot instead of missing it. Even if I'm pretty sure I captured it, I take several more and then delete the extras when I get home.
But really, try to see how far you can push your images in your post processing for corrections. I think the REALLY good photographers probably take the picture right the first time :-) But I also don't think there's any shame in trying to salvage an image that didn't expose quite right, etc. |
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12/10/2005 07:21:37 PM · #3 |
| That's one reason I archive all my photos -- every once in a while I'll go back and look at some old ones and find one which I now think is a lot better than around when I took it. |
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12/10/2005 07:27:47 PM · #4 |
You know I do the exact same thing as you. I take heaps and heaps of photos, upload them and go through and delete about 90% of them .I also do wonder if I am deleting the wrong ones!I also wondered about it so much so I actually asked a fellow DPCer to take part in an exercise.I emailed him all the 100 or so photos I took on a partucualr day for the 30 day pet challenge. He and i then went through and chose which ones we would keep I chose 10 he chose 14. I t was a very interesting exercise.
You might weant to see if you can find someone whio would do that exercise with you it might be helpful |
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12/10/2005 07:29:23 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by joynim:
You know I do the exact same thing as you. I take heaps and heaps of photos, upload them and go through and delete about 90% of them .I also do wonder if I am deleting the wrong ones!I also wondered about it so much so I actually asked a fellow DPCer to take part in an exercise.I emailed him all the 100 or so photos I took on a partucualr day for the 30 day pet challenge. He and i then went through and chose which ones we would keep I chose 10 he chose 14. I t was a very interesting exercise.
You might weant to see if you can find someone whio would do that exercise with you it might be helpful |
Yea that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. I don't delete my photos, I archive them like GeneralE... but it's a pain to look at them again, etc.
Maybe I'll try this out. |
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12/10/2005 07:41:49 PM · #6 |
I do exactly the same thing...however I do fairly often come back and look at originals. Probably my biggest "trick" to saving photos is to finding just one element of the shot I like and focus on that...most of the time by cropping.
For me, the most difficult part is deciding which ones to edit first! I usually want to start with so many at once, but - like tonight - I'm just really tired after the event. The one's I took today need very little editing, so that will help a lot.
I have learned to keep the originals, definitely - unless they really are beyond hope. |
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12/10/2005 07:43:32 PM · #7 |
I download all my (RAW) pictures onto my computer, then go through them and save all the "good ones" in a subfolder.
...sometimes when I am bored, or when I am looking for a specific shot, I go through my image library and pick some "new" ones out to edit.
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12/10/2005 08:27:58 PM · #8 |
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12/10/2005 08:37:13 PM · #9 |
i archive everything. these three shots were all taken at least 6 months ago. as we continue learning our craft, we learn new things that might save shots we first thought weren't any good.
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