On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> Using iPhoto tends to be a painful, unpleasant experience. But it's >> entirely possible that if I keep doing something I don't like, I might >> eventually enjoy it. >> >> >> My point is that months, or years, after working on, or last looking at, a >> photo it is much easier to judge it objectively, looking at it with fresher >> eyes. > > Your last point is important. > > I look at my finished work regularly. I look at my work immediately > after I've completed a shoot to see what hits my mind's eye > immediately. Then I look at it again, both the finished and the raw > work, several months later—and usually find more to work on, and edit > out some of the first hits that didn't really work past the first > blush. Then I make something of it. Then I look at that over and over > and over again as I seek to understand what it is and how to improve > it. > > I have my photos streamed, randomly, to the television in the living > room and often spend hours, off and on, looking at them while > listening to music or reading a book. > > Over time, I see where things are strong and where things are weak. I > then work on strengthening the weak parts by going back in and working > on the photos again ... > > And so on. > > The process is important. The finished results are more important. > Improving on the finished results is most important, in the next > project. You don't get better at things without practice and studying > what you did wrong.
I think that you just took four paragraphs to tell me that you had already figured out the point that I just realized. Fortunately, I'm enough younger than you, that I have a chance of eventually catching up. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
