I'm getting back to a really exciting project... A few years ago I decided to do a portfolio of my "100 Best 35mm Prints." Before I even started on it, I moved house and had to give up my darkroom.
So last night I decided to get back to it. A lot of times I leaf through stacks of prints and think I'm really not a very good shooter, because so much of it is average. But when I start actually physically pulling out the candidates for the "100 Best" and putting them in a pile, it starts looking like have a lot more good stuff than I thought. So far I've got 165 prints in the "possible" pile and I haven't even gone through all my boxes of prints yet, never mind going back to proofs. I know of at least four pictures that I can think of that are among my all-time favorites that I haven't found yet. This is really pretty exciting and a lot of fun--I'd recommend it! Once I really started getting critical and just picking out the shots I really like, and SEPARATING them from everything else, the stuff starts looking a lot stronger. I don't think I've ever done this before. This is going to be a HECK of an editing process. Even being picky, I could have 300 prints in the "possibles" pile before the dust clears (literally...a lot of this stuff is buried in cardboard boxes in the basement...I'm sneezing a lot <g>) and it's not going to be easy to cut it down to 100. I wish y'all could help! --Mike P.S. Just out of curiosity, how many people here have actual portfolios that are complete and finished? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
