Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Limit the images you display to a small handful of your absolute best work..


So you have one of those shooting moments where you can do no wrong.  It's compete with the proverbial planetary alignment and you come home with gigabytes of the perfect image...the same perfect image...captured over and over...on high-speed burst, at 9 frames a second.   While my first thought is that you might want to be more selective with the images you are making (know when NOT to push the shutter release), storage is cheap these days and buried in the volumes of images are subtle changes in light, expression and detail that might make the wear and tear on your camera's shutter worth it after all..

However....

You don't need to share every one of those images.  Doing so will surely numb your audience.  Remember Chevy Chase in European Vacation?  Caught in the traffic circle round-about passing Big Ben...And Parliament..


What happens when you come across a web gallery or slide presentation with all images having a sameness?  Fast forward please!  PLEASE!  Run and hide!  Quick..I'm nodding off..  am I drooling?

Edit your work with ruthless precision and display only a small portion... the absolute best stuff. 

I just shot a Sweet Sixteen party for a client.  942 images.  The first cull got that down to half the number of images.  The second cull halved it again.  I am working down to the nifty fifty to send the client and then I'll get it down to under a dirty dozen to  upload to my website.  You can look at just so many 16 year kids dancing with feather boa's, Risky Business Wayfarers and...well you get the idea.. 

There's Big Ben, and Parliament...

No comments:

Post a Comment