Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > 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 > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com