Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]SonC@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/17/2004 5:36:53 PM Central Standard Time, > > Each to his own, but it is my conclusion after many years of doing this > that > the exposure on the negative is only the first step in the editing > process. > The second step is to throw away losers. Third step is to take the most > promising frames and bring them to their potential. It doesn't matter if > you are > working on Photoshop or in the darkroom, tuning a fine automobile, or > throwing > a vase on a turntable; the principle is the same. > I think that there is a fourth stage: reviewing the negs/scans after a "respectable" interval (your own definition) and realising that (maybe) one or two of the images that you threw out the first time has merits that you had previously missed. Peter Dzwig