From: Tom C
For myself personally, the amount of work I put into obtaining the
image or post-capture processing has nothing to do with how I judge
the result. In fact some of my best images are ones that took almost
no effort at all. Conversely, sometimes the harder I try, the more I
screw it up.
Call me results oriented. :-)
Two things go into judging my own work -
1. How close does the final image come to the idea that I had in my head
when I was making the image?
Sometimes what I catch in camera is good enough. Sometimes it's almost
good enough and post processing will satisfy the need that led me to
make the image.
The most heartbreaking images are those that almost make it; the ones I
am finally forced to admit that no matter what mastery of technique I
can bring to post processing, the image is never going to be quite good
enough to satisfy the need I had in my head when I took the photograph.
2. How does the IDEA itself stand up after I've captured the image?
Maybe in the heat of the moment I'm really on - totally in the groove
and everything clicks. The capture in camera is as good as it gets ...
but later, sometimes I wonder, "What the hell was I thinking? Why did I
even want to make that photograph?"
I got a lot of stuff that falls into that last category. Can't delete
them, they're still taking up space on my hard-drives because I can't
make up my mind about whether the idea matters.
Maybe I'll delete them someday ... or maybe I'll understand WHY I made
them in the first place and they'll move into category #1 and I can
finally decide whether they do adequately represent the idea I was
trying to express.
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