In a message dated 10/9/2007 8:50:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I get better at doing my own gallery editing? I'm not talking about the fine points of bending Photoshop to my will. I'm talking about choosing the images that end up in the gallery for a collection and the characteristics of the gallery itself.
Stuff like ... how do I figure out the "proper" size for the final gallery for any particular collection? Is "mo' bigger" "mo' better"? Is small beautiful? I know the answers to these questions are largely subjective, but I want to draw out the various subjectives on the list and try to get a sense of sensibilities, if you will. Are there techniques that can help me "get outside myself" when judging my own shots? Help to diminish the emotional attachment I have to some images so that I can view them more objectively? General "meta" stuff like that. Discuss. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) =========== I think you've had a lot of good advice. Not sure I can add to it. Bear in mind that people's attention span is limited and especially limited for looking at someone else's photos. While you may enjoy looking at your own and spend quite a bit of time going over them, others will take much less time looking -- they may look at each picture for seconds. So I agree 20 is a good number for maximum for a gallery and less is better. Heh, my problem is more the opposite, finding photos that I feel are good enough to show. I only get one, I feel, really good shot per 50-75 photos. Sometimes 2-3. Then I will have 3-5 possible almost really good (pretty good) shots that need editing, cropping or further thought or work. Then maybe 3-5 "second tier" shots that maybe with some work might be fairly good and/or I am unsure if they are fairly good or more or less than that. Occasionally I will show second tier shots on list and people may really like one, or it will get almost no comments. I am often surprised which turns out to be which. My rule of thumb is if it looks like anyone or her sister or aunt could have taken it it's probably not that good. It can even be well exposed and composed, but it will be ordinary and run of the mill. If it has some kind of "me" stamp on it, something that I contributed in the way of a slightly different viewpoint or slant or take or feel then it may have something -- really good, almost really good (pretty good), or second tier, fairly good. IE not everyone would have taken it. With my own galleries I also try to avoid repetition, cull similar photos. And having a theme doesn't hurt. Even if the theme is obscure and mainly in your own head and not all that visible. But it gives you a blueprint to work from. And I don't include things that don't fit that theme. One can always show non-fitters in another venue. Hope that helps. Marnie aka Doe --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
