Yes, I've experienced the same thing. I keep feeling that some of the prints I made five years ago belong in the trash. Paul On Dec 16, 2006, at 4:05 PM, John Francis wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:31:41AM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> I'm with you Dave. The PUG has taught me how to be better. If you >> look at some of my original PUG contributions you will see how much >> worse I was. I'm just happy to have crawled up to mediocre! Average >> here is a whole lot better than Very Good in a lot of places. (Even >> the snapshots are a cut above.) >> Regards, Bob S. > > I agree. > > It's amazing how much you progress, quietly, without really noticing. > As a christmas present this year for our mothers we bought electronic > picture frames, so I had to go through and pick out a couple of > hundred > images they might like. One thing I did was to start off with the > images I had used in 2000 for a print calendar we sent them that year. > It was fascinating to see just how much better I had become at digital > image processing - the new versions I created this year were so much > better than the 2000 ones! > > It was also salutary to look back at some of my earler images, and > see what I could have done differently (or, at any rate, better). > One of the calendar images was a typical pacific "surf breaking on > a rock" shot. Even after the new colour balance, processing, etc. > it didn't look too good set alongside a snapshot from a recent trip. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
