Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Steven King (love your books ;-) ) How does this current workflow of yours compare with what it was when you shot film? Did you throw out negatives or slides which weren't explicity needed for an asignment? -dan c. At 10:08 AM 03-08-05 -0700, Steven King wrote: >Dan: I work for a daily newspaper in Arizona, and I've just spent the past >two hours shooting pix of storm damage from last night. I went to about >five different venues and shot about 300 pix on my D1 MkII. After I got to >the office, I edited in camera to about 30 pix, and those will get >downloaded to my G4 for processing in PS and placement in today's edition. >If I kept every shot ever taken on my digital, I could never work my way >through all the shots of a particular assignment to locate the select ones. >Just the practice at my paper. Besides, when you shoot 2,000 assignments a >year, the cost of archiving every trip of the shutter would be just too >great. > >Happy snaps. > >Steven > >---------- >>From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca> >>To: lug@leica-users.org >>Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos >>Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 6:53 AM >> > >> An article by Freeman Patterson in Photo Life magazine raised a question >> about how photojournalists using digital cameras treated their images. He >> suggested that the norm was for them to essentially delete their older >> unused images, as opposed to film photographers who tend to keep their >> negatives. He illustrated this with the example of an old photo of >> Monica >> Lewinsky meeting Bill Clinton in public that some photographer discovered >> amongst his old negatives, and which has appeared numerous times in the >> press. Patterson claims, "None of the digital photographers had any such >> visual records. All their old images had been deleted." >> >> Is this a valid argument (or even a true one in the above example)? I am >> not a photojournalist, but I have kept the vast majority of the digital >> images I've taken in the past 4 years, since I first started using digital >> cameras, probably numbering between 15,000 and 20,000 images. The only >> images I delete are the ones where I am fooling around with or testing the >> camera. >> >> But what about working photojournalists? Do they routinely delete photos >> (images) that aren't needed for a current assignment? >> >> -dan c. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >