Being Self-critical Or Just Plain Rubbish
conrad
Being Self-critical Or Just Plain Rubbish
21 Jun 2008 9:40PM Views : 272 Unique : 238Today I experienced what seems to have become a pattern:
I go to a wonderful location or event. I shoot several Gigabytes worth of images. I copy them to the computer. I look at the photos. I delete most of them.
Sound familiar?
If it doesn't, go and find someone else's blog to read. You're too good for this one. 
If it does, feel free to read on...
In and old forum thread I asked 'How much do you discard'? The replies varied quite a bit - from 10-15% to 99%!
But how much do I discard? Well, it varies.
Take today. I came home with almost 4Gb worth of images, taken at a parrot shelter. After I've looked at them once so far, and already I've gone from 4Gig to 3 Gig. By the time I've viewed them three times or so, I expect there to be less than one Gig left, of which only a handful of images gets printed and even fewer make it to my EPZ portfolio.
And I think the ratio is getting worse. Or would that be better?
Hmmm. I suppose it depends on how you look at it.
I've come up with a few possible reasons why I'm deleting more than in the past:
- I'm getting more critical of myself and my images.
- Instead of progressing, I'm getting worse.
- I'm machine gunning more.
- With more CF cards, I allow myself to shoot more, and therefore discard more.
Difficult. I don't know.
Maybe any of the above, none of the above, or all of the above.
Could it be that I'm just rubbish - and getting worse?
Tags: Photos Discard Delete Images Gb Gigabyte Megabyte Mb Files Improve Worse Rubbish Self-critical Standards
Comments
We went to Wallington Hall in Northumberland yesterday took loads of images came home deleted 50% of them - decided I can't cope with middle of the day conditions.
Looked through the remaining 50% today and culled them down to just 3 images and two of those are hanging on by a thread.
It seems to me the more proficient we get the more critical we become.
Of for those heady days of yesteryear when just something recogniseable on the LCD was a cause for celebration.
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Albert
Karen - Good point. Digital makes this kind of thing affordable. And I do indeed print things for my own album of the family album that don't make it to my EPZ portfolio.
Quote:culled them down to just 3 images and two of those are hanging on by a thread.
LOL, that's happened here as well!
Oh well ... maybe it means we're learning to distinguish the good from the bad?
Helen
