Day 1; 20 deleted

time to make some changes. Jorge has inspired me. I've become stagnant here. Make room for something when I figure out what I want to do. So heavy duty selective pruning is in order.

Another 20 tomorrow.
 
I have done the same, three times. I was at the top of the list in "gallery uploads" and decided to prune some of my images, not my best stuff but some that weren't representative of what I do now. It's all good!

Todd
 
"Winter time for the Buick Eight"
"Chrysler trunk ornamentation and rust"
"Winter time for the Buick Eight" (the second one)
Are some of my favorite RFF Gallery photos.
 
I can sympathise with the urge to prune the lesser pics from a gallery. When I look at my own pictures, I often feel embarrassed about the quality of what I shot in the past. It makes me wonder why I ever though that they were any good..

But mulling it over, I hesitate to delete my pictures altogether, because they give me the opportunity to look back and see what I've learned, where my strengths and weaknesses lay.
 
I keep 4 different online galleries to get around that problem. One of them is for uploading everything I scan, so that I can keep track of my progress. The others are portfolios where I display my best work.

Clarence
 
Pruning is good. Keeps the gallery fresh and keeps the mind going.

I prune all the time.

Recently pruned a few thousand negs from my collection to trim things down. I measure my collection in pounds.

I like to keep my RFF gallery as sweet as possible, though. Not a fan of keeping less than my favorites around.
 
Todd, good to hear I'm not alone

JimG, for you I'll leave those up.

pvdhaar, that is one of the drivers for the cull

clarence, I'm impressed

shutterflower, I'm very impressed! By the pound ... wow
 
Dont you find editing yourself a difficult task? What do you base it on? Gut feeling? composition? reaction or no reaction from others?
 
pesphoto... I look and if the shot has low views or comments... gone. If I look at the shot and think it is flawed or could be better it goes. If it has no comments or views are low and it isn't flawed and I think it is good .. it gets to stay ;- )

kbg32 ... spring is here and so is my spring cleaning mentality. Get the old out of the gallery and make room for something new. It's a good discipline. I'd rather have fewer shots that are quality than a high gallery number count.
 
pesphoto said:
Dont you find editing yourself a difficult task? What do you base it on? Gut feeling? composition? reaction or no reaction from others?
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Editing is the most difficult part of photography. What it is based on seems quite individual... for professionals it is probably based more on what will sell than anything else... including consideration of ease-of-printing/re-production. In my personal work, it is a gut-feeling combination of technical quality (focus/DOF appropriate to the subject matter and intent), composition, 'fit' with my 'themes/projects', and what I call "re-lookability". Re-lookability is the quality of being able to look at an image time and time again and enjoy it without getting bored or disinterested.

I don't really care too much about other's reaction, but it really can confirm the fact that an marginal image is either really good or really bad. Other people's opinion often makes me look at an image with a slightly different perspective but I always remember that some people have odd/pre-conceived notions of what good imagery is or isn't... and they might not hold the best opinion!
 
BrianShaw said:
about other's reaction, but it really can confirm the fact that an marginal image is either really good or really bad. Other people's opinion often makes me look at an image with a slightly different perspective but I always remember that some people have odd/pre-conceived notions of what good imagery is or isn't... and they might not hold the best opinion!
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Well said, and its true. I find sometimes one thing that partly influences how I feel about an image is the circumstances I was at the moment I snapped the shutter. How was I feeling at that moment? Was it a difficult shot to take? etc. This might make me more attacted to an image than someone viewing the final print or seeing it online for the first time.
Dont mean to hijack the thread, but its an interesting subject to me.
 
pesphoto said:
Dont you find editing yourself a difficult task? ...
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From a strictly manual point of view task it is a very time-consuming and somewhat of a pain in the a** to do in the RFF gallery (one_image_at_a_time). That's one reason to keep your galleries here lean. Last September I deleted everything (I was a top-poster), and it took quite a bit of time to do. It's easy to upload images here, but tedious to take them down. 🙂


🙂
 
I have deleted all my photos once, now I just pluck here and there. I just started another gallery with my newer things and kept the old one because I still like the photos quite a bit. Maybe sometimes its best to have a drastic fresh start, but currently I am not in the mood for that.
 
I have deleted a few shots that I have in my gallery here. Sometimes I'll look to see what I have posted, and a shot or two will strike me as incredibly lame and I can hardly believe I uploaded it in the first place. Other times, I'll see something older that I hadn't looked at in a while and I'll like it even more than I did originally. Either way, editing one's own work is both difficult and necessary. It's a good thing to do.
 
@ BrianShaw, you do what I call a "wall test" I put something up on a fridge or wall and just leave it there for a while after about a week if it is still interesting to me I figure it must have something going for it LoL!
 
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