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

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Murillo's
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:50:55 -0500

> I am trying to fathom what editing, after the photo is taken, does for 
> us...
> 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


Nobodies agonizing Steve. We're just being photographers.
Editing ones body of work is an ongoing process.

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





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