On Oct 6, 2008, at 13:55, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Back when I was an art student and was in my first photography class,
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What sort of philosophy do you have when working with your photos,
both
old and new?
John
Have? Or wish I had?
Anyone who has been into my Gallery (http://gallery.me.com/jomac)(shameless
plug) would know that, especially in the last two weeks of
September, I just throw anything close to in focus up for the world to
groan at. For two reasons: 1. The folks whose dogs are in the shots
would want to download them and brag to someone anyway. 2. I don't
have time to go through 150 shots a day and cull the best 2 or 3, then
work on them in Aperture to make them the "best that they can be". I
don't disallow the downloading of whatever size image of the dog park
that Aperture publishes to the Gallery. This also gives me visual
feedback to what I may be doing wrong (usually the camera's fault,
however) so the next day they might be better.
BUT! At some later date, as you are suggesting, be it a week or month
or year, I go back and find the best "photographs"
and will set them aside for my Website.
Won't do that until my Spyder2 Pro shows up later this week so I know
what I'm seeing.
I have over 1500 rolls of film of B&W negs, color negs, and 5000+
slides. I only made about 250 proof sheets both B&W and color and they
have only had a few prints made from, going back to 1965. I have a lot
of work to do, because in just the B&W proof sheets, I've seen in the
last year dozens of images I'd love to see in print. These are photos
that at the time I gave no thought to, as they were just more of the
life I was living and the sights around me. I hope to imagine that
there are many more.
Backward looking eyes...
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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