Jason Dunn reckons we shouldn’t just delete our mistakes but also perfectly good photographs.
Culling in Digital Photography
when you come back from shooting a bunch of photos with your camera, do you keep them all? Or do you delete some of them? I’m not talking about the blurry ones, or the ones that are too dark to be rescued. I’m asking if you delete photos that turned out well. Does the thought of that scare you?
The 30 day challenge has actually made me start to think there is something to this. I used to use my Flickr account as a general picture storage, not as a “best of”. Due to the picture a day challenge though I started only uploading one or two pics, even though I might have taken way more from that days shooting.
I find a critical editors eye at the downloading/cropping/uploading stage is actually helping in my photography at the shooting stage. I am seeing potential problems before they happen, thinking of the final photograph as it would look when viewed on screen. Choosing the one picture that can be tagged as my entry for the day has made me much more critical, I analyse what I like/dislike and think about why. The why helps in future shots.
What do you think? Is culling a good idea – survival of the fittest and all that?
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you could join a deleteme group on flickr is you want, but aparen;ty they can apear a bit mean to the uninitiated.
I’ve been thinking of culling some of my stuff, but recently people have discovered some of my older photos.
So if i do a cull it will be for stuff i can do better.