Hi,
> We have not yet talked about the opposite side of the coin, which is that,
> the more you shoot of a given subject, the more difficult it is to edit down
> to the best shot.
on rare occasions when I'm in such an enviable position I get other
people to help me :o) I'm a hopeless editor of my own stuff.
> assign my students a "slow down" exercise--they had to clip a single short
> length of 35mm film and place it in their cameras in the darkroom, then go
> out and spend an hour deciding where to shoot that one shot. This is also a
> very interesting exercise, and it develops the opposite faculty--the ability
> to be discriminating and to consider your actions and chances of success
> carefully beforehand.
I shall now reveal one of my lurv secrets:-
On occasion, usually a week or 2 before Feb 14, I will decide to write
a message on a contact sheet. The message is written in the frames of
one roll of b&w negative film. Each letter occupies one frame, and no
frame contains more than one letter. When laid out on the contact
frame in 6x6 strips, the message is legible. Words are separated by
individual pictures which are _not_letters. This is quite a
discipline, trying to find a suitable letter in a different face for
each frame, and in the right orientation. Then finding a decent shot
for the spacer frames in the same orientation. It usually takes a full
day or 2 to get it, but I've sometimes come up with some really quite
nice 'spacer' photos, it's an interesting discipline and it tends to
pay dividends :o)
---
Bob
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