[Leica] Plethora of pictures NOW EDIT RULES! restriction

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

philippe.amard offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Plethora of pictures NOW EDIT RULES! restriction


Agreed,

EXCEPT if they show beloved ones - even a blurred, fuzzy, yecchy pix
of someone you love(d) is an everlating treasure to be kept for your
heirs to decide if ...<<<<<<

Of course mon ami,
But then loved ones are never non-keepers! ;-)
We keep them all.... because they're GOOD -- BAD AND NOT SO BAD!! :-)

cheers,
ted


Le 2 janv. 11 ? 19:15, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> a ?crit :

>
> Lawrence Zeitlin asked:
>>> That works out to 7780 pictures a
>> year or over 21 pictures a day, nearly 2 every waking hour, rain or 
>> shine.
>> And people say that drugs or alcohol are addictions. Is there a 12  step
>> program for photographers? Help me before I snap again!<<<<<<<
>
> Good day Larry,
>
> Yep as simple a program as can be. Rather ruthless one might feel,  but it 
> works!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> 1/  EDIT RUTHLESSLY! SHOW NO MERCY! KEEP NO PRISONERS IF NOT PERFECT!
>
> 2/  IF THERES THE LEAST  BIT OF CAMERA SHAKE! ( and your heart is  over 
> riding your brain like "aaahh gee            whiz it's only  alittle bit 
> and it's still kind of nice!"   IT'S HISTORY!
>
> 3/ THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF ALL.  "IS THIS ONE OF MY ALL TIME  TEN 
> BEST EVER SHOT            PICTURES?"  If the answer is no ...  IT'S 
> HISTORY.
>
> 4/  DON'T PUT THEM IN A CABINET AND COME BACK LATER! THEY'LL STILL  BE OUT 
> OF FOCUS 6                   MONTHS LATER! THEY'RE HISTORY!
>
> Follow these simple rules  and you will only have the cream of the  crop! 
> No point in keeping half assed images you will for the rest of  your life 
> have to make an excuse why it isn't perfect everytime you  show it!!
>
> And accept the fact: " NO PHOTOGRAPHER HAS EVER BEEN PERFECT ON  EVERY 
> EXPOSURE!" oh heavens there are a few who think they do! :- ( But then 
> they're the overblown idiots!
>
> SO EDIT LIKE IT MEANS YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! TRUST ME IT'S A TOUGH 
> CALL, BUT PERCEIVER!
>
> I really learned the hard way through experince!.. Imagine editting  the 
> numbers of images to create a National Archived collction of  380,000 
> images. That's all keepers! :-) BE RUTHLESS!
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
> " <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 9:32 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Plethora of pictures
>
>
>> In keeping with a New Year's resolution I tried to clean up my 12" 
>> Powerbook
>> hard disk and store all my images on another drive. A Spotlight  search 
>> of
>> .jpg in the hard drive revealed that I have over 38900 image files.  I've
>> only owned this little laptop since 2005. That works out to 7780 
>> pictures a
>> year or over 21 pictures a day, nearly 2 every waking hour, rain or 
>> shine.
>> And people say that drugs or alcohol are addictions. Is there a 12  step
>> program for photographers? Help me before I snap again! And I have  two 
>> more
>> computers to go.
>> Larry Z
>>
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