2008/10/6 John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What sort of philosphy do you have when working with your photos, both > old and new?
What's new... :-) To me, a "new" shot is one where I can recall my thoughts _and_ emotional state at the moment of shooting. When selecting shots for the family album, that's important. So important to me that I try to have some of it reflected in added metadata (EXIF or database). Experimental shots for learning is of course in the same category. When selecting pics for sharing outside the family it is almost the same, but with more weight on the technical and compositional aspects. That's when the thought/emotion recall can get in the way of proper judgement for me. There's a lot of variation to how much time I need to forget my thoughts/emotions. In some cases I can be emotionally detached at the moment of shooting, other times I'm deeply moved. However I find it difficult to assess the depth of involvment until the emotional memory is gone. For this reason, I have to comb my archive several times to extract the keepers from a more objective perspective. Sometimes I even delete things I've extracted earlier, thinking "what the heck did I see in this?" And as Godfrey says too, it's also a matter of purpose; to have shots fit into a project. I'm nowhere close to the dedication to project workflow that Godfrey has, but it happens. Like Cotty's "project" of retrieving pics of his old house, for example. I think it's a complex issue. It has made me somewhat paranoid about deleting. However I find that the more I wade through the "old" shots, the more I learn how to weed the "new" ones. There's a lesson in the archive about recognising potential despite the emotional clutter. That knowledge can only be extracted from "medium matured" shots; when distance and memory balances. My family thinks I look over my shoulder too often, but there you go. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.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.
