NY_Dan
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"Just speaking of my own experience, I've noticed that it is hard to let go of images when you've first shot them. I think you are just too invested in the excitement and effort of making them to see them just for the image that is there. A year or more later many will not seem as good anymore, at least that is true for me."
Mark, I agree 100 percent! I edit as much as I can. I'm getting better. Some images I kept because I needed them to pair with others. I'm afraid that if I edit too tight I will be like the whittler who starts out whittling a baseball bat and ends up with a toothpick. And if I wait a year, then I will have too much to wade through and will procrastinate. But with 8 of these, one at a time I find it easier to tackle, and my end goal if I have one, is to sit down and pick the best from all the books and make one book -- I guess it's editing in multiple stages. I find others often pick better than I do because in part they're seeing it fresher than I can. I've been thinking about someday putting all the images from all the books online somehow, so that others could vote for the 100 or so best -- that would be a good start and food for thought. I think someone else on this site did this a while back, but I can't remember.
Mark, I agree 100 percent! I edit as much as I can. I'm getting better. Some images I kept because I needed them to pair with others. I'm afraid that if I edit too tight I will be like the whittler who starts out whittling a baseball bat and ends up with a toothpick. And if I wait a year, then I will have too much to wade through and will procrastinate. But with 8 of these, one at a time I find it easier to tackle, and my end goal if I have one, is to sit down and pick the best from all the books and make one book -- I guess it's editing in multiple stages. I find others often pick better than I do because in part they're seeing it fresher than I can. I've been thinking about someday putting all the images from all the books online somehow, so that others could vote for the 100 or so best -- that would be a good start and food for thought. I think someone else on this site did this a while back, but I can't remember.
