I went thru all my 08 images and pulled out my best.
It helps that I don't retain any mediocre (IMO) images. I then viewed them
all in a full screen slide show. Catagorizing them into several catagories -
landscape, animal, abstract etc - I then picked the best from each catagory
and finally selected the final two.
Kenneth Waller
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From: "Stan Halpin" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What to submit
I have never been a very organized person, have relied more on memory than
structured filing systems, etc. But I am getting older and my memory isn't
as sharp as it once was. So I have been forced to compensate. (Read my
book - Day, Harrison and Halpin, An Integrative Approach to Leader
Development, Routledge Press, 2009 - for more information on the
selection-optimization-compensation mechanisms.) Therefore I have gotten
reasonably good at going through my images in Lightroom soon after
download and tagging the better shots as "ones" or "twos" or "threes". I
later do a second pass and select a few "fours", and very seldom a "five",
from out of the "threes". Pulling images to use in a Blurb book, the size
of the image on the page tends to reflect the rating. If I find a "four"
or "five" that doesn't feel right as a full-page, I decrease the rating.
So, between my first and second passes, and then some re-evaluation when
thinking about which images to actually use (e.g., in a book) or which to
expend funds on to print, I wind up with a handful of "fives" in my
catalog. Sort by rating, look at those select images, and pull two that
others (like my wife) have also appreciated. It was pretty easy,
actually. I had four that I dithered over, but decided to save the
cormorant and anhinga shots for a special PUG.
My "best" shots are probably among the ones that I dismissed on my first
or second pass. When my wife gets involved in the review process, she is
always picking out shots that I would discard. But I wasn't looking for
the two definitive shots that would for all time make a statement about
my abilities as a photographer, I was just looking for two shots that I
would not be ashamed to have out there.
If I started from scratch with 10,000 or so unrated images and tried to
select two I would quickly go crazy and resort to throwing darts. Which
would make a real mess of my LCD screen...
stan
On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:35 PM, John Celio wrote:
I just can't decide how to pick two photos out of all of 2008 for the
PDML book.
How did those of you who have submitted photos make that decision?
John
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