I think I may be missing something, Mike. If this is a personal, private portfolio with you as the client, you don't need to put any "obvious "hits"" in it, right? Just stick the ones in it that mean the most to you.
Dan Scott (sitting around waiting for my Dad to show up (coming from WI)) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike wrote: >A bit of an update on my project, if anyone is curious that is: > >The project has been to pick my 100 favorite shots in 35mm B&W from the past >20 or so years, from the time I entered photography school in 1982. > >I ended up with about 260 (?) "possibles" after going through thousands of >prints. First just picking the obvious inclusions--the things I couldn't >imagine leaving out--I ended up with about 50 pictures. The remaining 200 or >so I've been showing to friends and family to get their reactions and >responses. From this I've picked another 40 pictures. > >However I'm not sure any more that this project is really possible. From >some shooting projects I've done I haven't even picked one picture, and >actually from some cameras I've shot with I haven't picked a single picture >either. > >As the project has gone on I've become concerned about the number of prints >I can't find--as my memory is jogged I've thought of dozens of finished >prints that haven't turned up yet. I'm sure they're in boxes in the basement >I haven't yet searched, but I'm more than a bit chagrined at my casual >filing and storage methods. With all the work and time I have put into >printing over the years, I should be more careful about the results. > >I've also been remembering great negatives that I have never really printed >yet. One of my deceased grandmother comes to mind. > >With only 10 places left I'm starting to winnow things out of the selection >so far to make more room. One problem with this is that many of my favorite >pictures are very "quiet" pictures, offhand and plain, not obvious "hits." >As I edit down, I think too many of these are being left out. > >I guess the frustration about this comes from the fact that there is not >much difference in quality between the "first" 100 and the "second" 100. I'm >not saying they're interchangeable, just that there are so many favorite >pictures left out of the first 100 that maybe the leftovers are not so much >weaker. > >This has certainly been interesting, though. I've got to finish my new >darkroom. > >--Mike >- >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 . - 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 .
