I never delete pictures. I figure if I happen to take some I really love I can get them printed, but storage space is cheap and that’s one of the joys of digital photography – you don’t need to eliminate things unless you are flat-out certain you don’t like them.
Mind you, I still have pictures I took in the third grade that are so out of focus you can’t really who’s who – but I refuse to get rid of them because they were from a great week I spent at a friend’s cottage. So I’m probably the wrong one to be offering an opinion on packrattyness.
I just read that article you linked to, and it deflated me, too. Gah, I’m discouraged before I even start! Not only do I have to be a good photographer but a good editor, too? But then I went back and looked again at the pictures you posted, and they inspired me to keep trying.
I’m still so fascinated to get this peek behind the curtain of your artistic brain at work — thank you so much for that! I hope you don’t feel intimidated by my intense interest in this — you’re just writing about stuff exactly where my head is at right now, and I’ve been studying your pictures trying to figure out how they work from both an emotional and a technical perspective.
That fist one, to me, seems to be a study in the rule of threes.
I think the by-rote pointers are good for people like me who need to have their eye trained. You have a trained eye and can execute a lot more creative discretion.
I never delete pictures. I figure if I happen to take some I really love I can get them printed, but storage space is cheap and that’s one of the joys of digital photography – you don’t need to eliminate things unless you are flat-out certain you don’t like them.
Mind you, I still have pictures I took in the third grade that are so out of focus you can’t really who’s who – but I refuse to get rid of them because they were from a great week I spent at a friend’s cottage. So I’m probably the wrong one to be offering an opinion on packrattyness.
I love the image of the plane high overhead.
I love the phone wires and airplane!
I just read that article you linked to, and it deflated me, too. Gah, I’m discouraged before I even start! Not only do I have to be a good photographer but a good editor, too? But then I went back and looked again at the pictures you posted, and they inspired me to keep trying.
I’m still so fascinated to get this peek behind the curtain of your artistic brain at work — thank you so much for that! I hope you don’t feel intimidated by my intense interest in this — you’re just writing about stuff exactly where my head is at right now, and I’ve been studying your pictures trying to figure out how they work from both an emotional and a technical perspective.
Dani, not at all! I’m pleased as punch by your interest.
I find it mildly amusing that photos you might dismiss as crap are, like, 1000 times better than the best photo I have ever taken.
YOu have talent, Kate.
That fist one, to me, seems to be a study in the rule of threes.
I think the by-rote pointers are good for people like me who need to have their eye trained. You have a trained eye and can execute a lot more creative discretion.
These photos are brilliant.