Not so fast. I briefly scanned the article and actually passed it on to a non-DPCer. Thanks for posting. I'm a packrat when it comes to images and will soon run out of disk space if I don't do something soon.
Not so fast. I briefly scanned the article and actually passed it on to a non-DPCer. Thanks for posting. I'm a packrat when it comes to images and will soon run out of disk space if I don't do something soon.
I've found the whole series of articles by that author really interesting. I see far too many pbase galleries full of every single shot taken on a particular day that happen to be in focus and not too badly exposed, rather than picking the actually good image.
I figure learning how to do that well might actually improve the pictures I take in the first place too.
I always ask myself if I can cleary define my subject and what the photograph is saying! Does the photo make you say WOW! That is the pic you need to keep!
I just had a chance to flip through the list of the other articles and find 'Selecting Film' quite interesting. I'll have to review it in more detail later.
On a similar vein how do you decide which are keepers when you shoot an event for other people? I know when I do personal shots what I like and what I want and what I consider the best, but I often find when shooting for other people that they tend to like the shots that I dont really care for. So do you just do the initial weeding of blurry and out of focus shots and hand over all the rest?
An example - last night I shot a party for a client who wanted me to capture the 'feel' of the event in photographs. Most of my shots are people talking to other people, eating, and drinking and to me they lack any real artistic value. If I had shot them for myself I would trash the lot. Do you just hand over all the shots even if you think they suck?
On a similar vein how do you decide which are keepers when you shoot an event for other people? I know when I do personal shots what I like and what I want and what I consider the best, but I often find when shooting for other people that they tend to like the shots that I dont really care for. So do you just do the initial weeding of blurry and out of focus shots and hand over all the rest?
An example - last night I shot a party for a client who wanted me to capture the 'feel' of the event in photographs. Most of my shots are people talking to other people, eating, and drinking and to me they lack any real artistic value. If I had shot them for myself I would trash the lot. Do you just hand over all the shots even if you think they suck?
This is difficult since you are just guessing at what the client may like.
Do any of them portray any emotion at all related to the event? Maybe try and put yourself in the place of the individuals you photographed.
Don't shoot me for suggesting photoshop but maybe boosting contrast or some other effect may help elicit the mood of the event. Just a suggestion.
On a similar vein how do you decide which are keepers when you shoot an event for other people? I know when I do personal shots what I like and what I want and what I consider the best, but I often find when shooting for other people that they tend to like the shots that I dont really care for. So do you just do the initial weeding of blurry and out of focus shots and hand over all the rest?
An example - last night I shot a party for a client who wanted me to capture the 'feel' of the event in photographs. Most of my shots are people talking to other people, eating, and drinking and to me they lack any real artistic value. If I had shot them for myself I would trash the lot. Do you just hand over all the shots even if you think they suck?
That's why wedding photographers create "proof books" with most of the shots that don't have obvious problems (Bride's eyes closed, milk coming out Grandma's nose etc) and let the couple make the final cut.
Speaking of "keepers", Pixort "is a FREE tool for reviewing, comparing, sorting and culling photographic image files. It is not yet another photo archiving and organizing tool: it is dedicated to the initiation of a digital photography workflow"
