Curiously enough, today I reviewed several selected pictures form a 2005 trip and to my surprised I liked quite a lot of them. I really expected not to like many, specially since I'm becoming too used to 'digital grainless' and sharpness. Both are lacking in my oldest pictures due to the equipment used for the pictures and for the scanning workflow (and I am too lazy to rescan them).
Regards, Jaume ----- Mensaje original ---- De: Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Enviado: lunes, 6 de octubre, 2008 22:05:41 Asunto: Re: Philosophy Interesting thoughts, John. I think there's something in this idea. I've certainly got a number of images that I worked on not long after taking them and I wonder now what I saw in them. But conversely, I've noticed that when I review older images some time later (even a couple of years later), I often find images that I had previously overlooked but which now seem to have something to offer. I don't know if I could defer working on a new batch of images for any length of time after taking them but it's definitely worth reviewing the archive from time to time. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:44:30 -0700, "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Back when I was an art student and was in my first photography class, my > professor (Alice Shaw, www.aliceshaw.com) was giving a slide show about > famous fine art photographers and their creative processes. > > One photographer she mentioned, whose name I wish I could remember, > would take photos and process the film, but not look at the negatives > for about a year. This would help to remove sentimental attachments he > might have with the images and allow him to more objectively select > photos to print. This struck me as a very good idea, especially since I > always feel immensely sentimental about things I create, even if they're > bad. > > So, while I have been slowly rebuilding my website's gallery since last > winter, I've been trying to apply this philosophy to my own work. I > have been taking lots of photos this year, but not really doing anything > with them (aside from a few exceptions, such as the birth of my nephew). > Working with photos that I took in college and after has helped me see > just how bad some of the photos are that I used to think were great. > It's difficult to resist the temptation to work on this year's photos, > but I keep telling myself it'll be worth it in the long run. > > What sort of philosphy do you have when working with your photos, both > old and new? > > John > > -- > http://www.neovenator.com > http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different… -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
