Hi, Lon, >From a post of mine from last night, on another thread:
"I'm gradually learning that taking photographs is only a small part of this endeavor. Choosing what to show is just as important." Ha!! Seriously, you're right. When one shoots a coupla rolls a week, the photos add up. It's really hard to critique one's own work. It's also hard to ask friends to sit through a couple of thousand frames of contacts, to pick the best 6 or 10 shots to go into a show or whatever. If I narrow it down to a dozen or two, at least that's more digestable (assuming that ~any~ shots of mine are digestable <g>). I use photo.net a lot for that, which is why among my folder there, one will find several with blurry shots of questionable exposure; they're from contact sheets. I guess what I'm saying in a long-winded way is that, yes, choosing what to show - whether one shot on PUG, a gallery of snaps to send to grandma by e-mail, or a show - seems sometimes to the the ~real~ art to this. And, for me, the input of friends/peers/colleagues is most helpful. cheers, frank cheers, frank Lon Williamson wrote: > Perspicacious, eh? Sweaty? grin. > No one's mentioned photography's magic dirty little > secret: What you choose to show is vital. What percentage > of your shots would you show on PUG, for example? > > For me, right now, selecting shots to scan/keep is > the real magic. I mean, you should see some of the > rejects..... > -- "What a senseless waste of human life" -The Customer in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch
