Michael, I learned in PH101 that editing is a fundamental component of photography. Either as a collaborative effort or the next creative step in the photographic art process it is a valuable skill. If you can't do it get help - same as you would writing for publication. Editing can be another medium altogether. It is an art to delve into a lot of images and make them our own expression. I say "bring em on," the more images the better! Shameless plug - today I got my second Blurb book back. Editing your pictures and then making a book is a thrilling exercise - everyone should give it a try. I can't say enough praise for the Blurb book-making system. It is very easy and inexpensive. To see my books go here and enter alan zinn in search: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/ Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround Book. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: News in the 1910's > From: editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, January 21, 2008 8:02 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Yikes! > I have always believed that there is great value in EDITING -- the idea of less is more, subjectivity, and telling a story. More photos is merely more data. It takes the artinsanry of editing to turn a morass of data into "content". > As such, one of the key deliverables by any artist, editor, or author is sythesising/reducing, in the most concise manner possible, that which is truly relevant. > Young artists are advised: "show only your ten best pieces". > Why on earth would searching the endless web for "more" not be less? In the end, this is why I enjoy looking at portfolios, why I love going to a museum, why I love reading a good book -- someone has taken the effort to separate the wheat from the chaff (even if I don't agree with them) > Michael > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > -----Original Message----- > From: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:04:33 > To:List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: News in the 1910's > Don Roberts writes: > : Peeter Vissak wrote: > : > I wonder how many pixel photographs from the turn of this century > : > will still be around in the 2050s-2060s > : > to tell the story of mankind on this little planet. > : > Peeter the Pessimist > : I imagine > : institutions like the Smithsonian and the LOC are very much aware of the > : problems with digital images and have plans in place to archive those. > I understand a lott of the archiving is being done on film, digital originals being retained - they're especially useful for rapid access, but long term storage on film seems the backup method > : The biggest problem may be one of identification. You know when you do > : an image search on Goggle you find many images that have been tagged > : with your search terms but really are not what you requested. That sort > : of thing may be a huge problem. > I've noticed google's image search has been getting sillier and sillier of later, with wildly inappropriate material being thrown up (!) > One way images can be searched effectively is if IPTC information or comments are written to the image* , then a file search can be done for say *.jpg (or RAW) containing text <word as appropriate, ie party, cake, dress etc> and date ranges are set in the search - > say then I am searching for a customers wedding photo I can search photos taken in 2007 - search for wedding > search again for (customers name) > search again for cake within those results > Another way is to regularly extract all such info to an excel spreadsheet and search that the same way. > Another way again is using a tool like image seek which I wrote of here before, which comes in windows and mac flavours > This lets you do a rough squiggle and then the program finds images which compare closely to the squiggle you drew, or if you have a photo that's similar to what you're chasing you set it off to find all such photos. it's free and it's here: > http://www.imgseek.net/ > and one day I hope goggle incorporates something similar :) > Karl
