Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Murillo's
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:44:04 -0500
References: <73301d6b1002141915w7aeb9762nf0895723d51bba67@mail.gmail.com> <D599509C-5B8D-493E-9CA0-8CB601244DBB@frozenlight.eu> <387743A2-2C41-4B63-83D0-B8693DF1254D@gmail.com> <F520D1FB-4F7B-48AD-9D12-0556CD15E005@mac.com> <73301d6b1002151316re4bcf38hce24c890038af9b8@mail.gmail.com> <EF72D166-535C-448C-BF90-84D296AA7F7C@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1002151936w32386e6fs89c2e0901372c51e@mail.gmail.com> <F1E0CBDF-8D90-4972-8AC6-61B051530615@gmail.com> <73301d6b1002160819o7132b344q4846dfc32c0b9581@mail.gmail.com> <0816EC01-3CD4-443B-836C-4E8E3285EB92@gmail.com>

I agree with everything you say; however, when I took these 7000 photos, I
was taking them for the ultimate purpose of fund-raising so that was my
editing process at the time I pressed the shutter.  Now I have a different
purpose so I'm trying to look at them through a different editing filter to
see what else might be there.  The photos were successful for 30 years of
fund-raising so I'm fairly confident about that first edit.  Now I'm in
uncharted territory for me.  ;-)

Tina

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> I have this bizarre notion that, at its core, photography is editing.
> That's why I always wonder when I hear a great photographer say "I'm a 
> lousy
> editor".
> Maybe we don't think about it this way, I have this funny feeling that when
> we take photos successfully, a priori, the very nature of what we do is
> editing...
> we alone take certain photos, not others...it's that first edit that
> largely determines success. That first edit, solely ours, is right at the
> heart....
> If we are up to that task, enjoy it, and accept the responsibility, then
> why do we so agonize over the later job, and trust it to others ?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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