I never throw out a shot. Why? Well, there's the pack rat thing. There's also the "I might change my mind and like it some day" thing.
Sort of like this:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1969124&size=lg
My developer, Robert is always making fun of how I can get an average of 38 or 39 shots per roll. He wonders if I stretch the film. So, recently, I get back contacts, and this one is the first shot on the roll. It's about 1 1/2 frames before "0" on the film <g>. Robert says, "I'm guessing that this is just you shooting off the first few frames to get to the beginning of the film. But, I stuck it on the contact anyway, because, know what? I kind of like it!"
Or, maybe it's just a comment on my usual framing and composition.
Point is, some day, I might go back, look at that one, and just for the fun of it, print it up. It may tickle my fancy some day, and I don't want to throw away that possibility.
Besides, I figure maybe, once I'm dead, my executors are going to have to go through every frame I ever shot. It'll serve the bastards right!
As a matter of fact, I think I'll put that in my will. Hmmm...
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keeping poor shots, was: Luddite posting. Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:12:01 US/Eastern
Pack rat here.I keep everything.Even the botched IR developing i did at home.Dont ask me
why,but i
know if i throw it out some magazine will do a call for bad IR shots to publish.lol
I also keep all my blown digital shots,but so far only a few.
Dave
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