John Celio wrote: >How do you decide what to cut and what to keep when you've shot more than >one good photo of a subject? > Well, start by admitting that objectivity in art doesn't exist.... and, perhaps, changing the word "good" to what you are personally happy with.
>Assuming you feel like all or most of the photos of said subject are good, >how do you distance yourself from your personal attachment to your work or >subject, in order to objectively edit it all down to something more >manageable than (for instance) the big ol' gallery I posted over the >weekend? > I didn't see anything on line anywhere this past weekend (by anyone) - so can't comment on that (cause I was in a big old Scrabble tourney and had a big old house guest - I deleted without reading just about everything in my inbox so I have to skip commenting on that :) ) >Objectivity is the goal, I think. How do you achieve it? > >John > I don't think objectivity is a goal or a possibility for an artist... any artist... but getting distance from whatever you have created helps. Time is a huge factor in this.... Showing two photos to others/or one person ** whose work and eye you respect and admire ** and asking which they prefer and why might lead you in the right direction. You need to please yourself first, though, unless you are doing all this stuff solely for monetary gain - then your goal is to simply please your client :) Hopefully, you can support yourself by doing both . I recently (last week) asked for the opinion from the list of my fiddling in photoshop with some photos some of which I liked and didn't myself and couldn't make up my mind... the responses were all over the map, though there was a leading toward A instead of B . I had gotten too enchanted with the process and the comments were a reality check. ann >(the above is all one question, phrased in different ways) > >-- >http://www.neovenator.com >http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto > > > > -- 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.
