Apply some blur, some motion striping and call it art...
Hell, I seldom throw anything out, (unless it's just silly, like 100
pictures of a doorknob), storage is cheap, and you never know when a
great idea for combined images will strike you.
Somewhere on film I have a very nice photograph of an egret, with a dead
white sky. I also have a number of establishing shots on that same roll
of film that had nice blue sky fluffy clouds and interesting Jungle type
foliage, Photoshop makes it easy to combine those elements to get an
interesting image, where before there were several boring and flawed
images. Just don't sell the result to the AP.
On 10/5/2010 1:37 PM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
As I hasten to stipulate at every opportunity, I'm pretty new to
photography, and I have what may seem to be a stupid question. So,
please indulge me.
That said, what do all of you real photographers do with images that
may be flawed, but still have some redeeming qualities to them. For
instance, a shot that's too poorly focused to rescue with sharpening
tools and so forth, but does capture a sense of action that is
somewhat appealing. Like this one, for example:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7X4Utq1sTP4AoZG2S3S0zQ?feat=directlink
As you can see, it's a fairly severe crop, and has been sharpened
already to the point where it exhibits a pretty prominent halo as a
result. I do have a copy of the image, pre-halo, but not the original
file -- which I seem to have deleted somehow. I don't see the image
ever being finessed to the point where it's printable, but I hate to
just discard it because of the sense of action. Do you all generally
keep images like these, or just send them down the memory hole to rid
yourself of torment and temptation to return it in futility?
Any guidance and/or damnation with faint praise are, as always,
greatly appreciated.
Best,
Walt
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"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral
bankruptcy."
-Woody Allen
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