(Continuing from Thursday's blog...)
Most of the images photographers make are forgettable. That’s not a bad thing. Forgettable images are doing just what they are supposed to be doing; not making an impression and being forgotten. Not every photograph is a winner. Some rise to the level of art, some are just visual clues for some great memories and some are questionable. That would be questionable in the manner of “Where was I when I took that photograph?” not the questionable that was a breach of good taste.
The trouble with selecting these days is purely a question of volume. In the past, if I would go out with my view camera for a week of photography, I would be happy with forty exposed sheets of film. Selecting and editing with that quantity of images was fairly easy to do. With my digital camera it would be easy to get about two thousand images after a week. Then the problem becomes one of selecting and editing. A much more complicated and time consuming process just because of the number of images is so much larger.
And then once you have figured out how many images are “good enough” what is going to happen to the rest?
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