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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