Rob,
I'm very critical of my own photographic images. My wife gets
frustrated when we look at my take from, say, last weekend's outing, and
I'm all "yeah, but the horizon..." or "Mmmmm, there's a tree growing out
of her head." She's usually more of a "Ohhh, look at the girls. Aren't
they having fun?" type, though I do trust her eye when she's looking
with a more artistic intent.
I honestly don't know how to feel when people who don't *love* me are
honestly complementary of my work. The gallery opening in Chicago was
truly uncharted territory with so many people whose work I really admire
actually commenting on mine. I think that was nice, but I have my issues.
That being said, for the Annual, I'm picking out the very best things I
did in the last year. It's not hard. I used Lightroom to sort for the
year and added photos I *really* like (only about six) to a quick
collection, made my decision, asked my wife what she thought, did a very
little bit of processing (I actually ported one of them out to
Elements!) and uploaded the files.
Having 80+ "favorite" images from one year's shooting is, for me, not
likely to ever be a problem.
Cory
kind of our there on my sleeve now if you don't like my selections ;)
On 1/21/2011 1:41 AM, Rob Studdert wrote:
Hi Guys,
Looking back at my Pentax images from last year I didn't shoot with my
Pentax kit a great deal, about 2400 images all up with probably 10% of
them sequences for panos, about 10% of images shot for myself and the
remainder records of events and family. I took the route of throwing
everything I shot in a folder and discarding what wasn't up to the
quality that I want to be submitting. As a matter of interest I shot
just over 1800 images with my s90 in the course of 7 months.
There doesn't seem to be a great selection to find three worthy images
from, I could go to past years but personally I would prefer to only
submit images captured during the year. That said I'm currently down
to 83 images and hopefully I'll have it down to a more manageable nine
or so by next week. Then comes the hard part.
How do you decide what makes the grade in the case of the PDML Annual?
Cheers,
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