I agree with you as a working professional, Tanya. Work one is doing
for a client, or on spec., is certainly different than the work an
artsy-fartsy photographer does (like me). With few exceptions, if it
doesn't meet the clients expectations or is not special to you for
your own portfolio, trash it.
Making that point was a friend of mine who only shot Kodachrome 135.
In her living room were three big silver trash cans (like they use on
stage in "Stomp!"), two of which were filled to overflowing with
mounted slides. Her keepers were in a shoebox sized wooden slide
storage box. I used to keep my keepers in a 3 ring binder tucked into
the pockets of transparency pages. Until I tried to remove a few for
projecting some years ago and found quite a few stuck to the plastic.
Took a long time to remove them all, and quite a few were toast.
On Oct 5, 2010, at 15:57 , Tanya Love wrote:
A great photographer who took me under his wing years ago (see
www.chunglee.com), once said to me "the measure of a great
photographer is
the size of his/her waste paper bin". Meaning anything that isn't as
perfect as you envisaged it should go in the bin. It took me a good
while
to get my head around it but I agree and it's the way I complete my
workflow
everyday. As soon as I upload my cards, I do a quick "go through"
in LR
using my "x" button to "reject" everything that doesn't come close
to what I
want, then I do one big "delete all rejected photos" afterwards.
And then,
I NEVER think of those shots again. Why? Because a) I don't have
time to
spend trying to save stuff, and b) because I don't ever want anyone
to see
anything but my best work for fear of tarnishing my credibility
(which is
the point that Chung Lee was making with his quote above.
I know this is an opposing view to what most have posted here, but
it works
for me. And when I am shooting 2-3000 frames every week, the
storage space
and time it would take to keep the "average" shots, would be
ridiculous.
Hope that helps!
Tan. :)
Tanya Love
Photographer
www.lovebytes.com.au
m: 0458 006 740
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