Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Dzwig offered: > 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.<<<<<,, Hi peter, This is truer than many think. Recently while we re-organize and edit some of the old shoot files .... like some from 40 years ago ;-) I've found negs-contact sheets with frames that were never printed only to be pleasantly surprised how they were 40 years ago and never printed. A couple anyway. ;-) So sometimes as you say, we should do first edit, then let the stuff sit for awhile before completely discarding the negs. Then return for another look on a different day in a different mood with sharper eyes. One does get surprised as in... "How did I ever miss this?" Makes a scary point about digital when one does a first cut edit and "DELETES" a bunch never to have them to go back to another day ....... or year! :-) That's why in some cases "film is forever!" You always have negs. ;-) ted