Offering the photo buying public a portfolio from which to select an image is a facinating but head shaking experience. It's a completely unpredictable randome and wonderous exercise that my result in a degree of insecurity about your own judgement. Entering juried exhibits may lead to the same end.
Jack From: Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 6:47 AM Subject: Re: OT - Learning how to choose your best work Bruce Walker wrote: >Moose Peterson discusses how to edit; ie: learning how to choose just >your best work. > >I like his suggestion of getting work on a restaurant wall and then >observing people's reactions to it. Could be a cringe-worthy exercise! I think it would be an almost worthless exercise, myself. What everyone, including Moose Peterson, seems to be missing is the fact that you have to choose your best work *before* you put on this "restaurant wall exhibit". How much space is available on the walls? How many photographs do you shoot in a year? Most of the selection process takes place before the photos go up. Moose Peterson has been shooting so long that his initial selection process is almost instinctive now. That's why he didn't notice he was doing it at all in his restaurant wall thought experiment. What he really wants to do is what Tim Bray identified as the real trick for someone who makes a living from this stuff: figure out what the public is going to go for (and buy). So I'd say the Moose Peterson experiment is worthless from an artistic standpoint but useful from a commercial standpoint. It just depends on what your goal is. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia http://www.robertstech.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
