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Incase you have not noticed, Christmas is approaching fast. This is the time of year when it is good to take a look at the photos captured over the previous 12 months. This task involves deleting an awful lot of rubbish, but also helps uncover a few forgotten, or overlooked gems. This year’s annual cull started over the weekend and I found a batch of photos that had not been published. The images accompanying this article were all captured around the Bangla Road area of Phuket, and yes, I had forgotten about them!
The Marinade
I love a decent marinade. Yogurt with a good dollop of tikka masala will improve chicken, and beef rested in Guinness works a treat. The trick here is to LEAVE whatever you have done and come back to it later. In this sense ‘marinade’ has become a metaphor for leaving photos alone. Garry Winogrand is known for not even processing his images till a year had passed (he shot film…obviously).
The Importance of Time
Most of us are guilty of coming back from a photoshoot, processing the best images and uploading them to social media. However, it is hard to be a subjective judge of your own work. Often we judge photos based on the experience had while taking them, or the effort that was expended on travelling to a location. Street photography is difficult, and it can be hard to admit that a morning’s work may have ended with very little in the way of images worth publishing.
When we leave our photographs for weeks, months, or years, we lose our emotional attachment and see the images with new eyes.
Hidden Gems
When we first view our photos, there are always the initial obvious choices for editing and publishing. However, these choices are often cliched, or repetitions of similar other images often seen on social media. To stand out you need to be different – going back through earlier images may reveal gems previously missed. In addition, remember that photos change over time, the historical edge of a photo can make it stand out from the crowd.
That is all for today folks. Keep Clicking,
Chris
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good advise ideed, I regularly go back to photos I have taken month ago and delete rubbish and yes I find also some gems I have overlooked before 🙂
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I have a 3 monthly cull to get rid of the duds and look for anything worthwhile I may have missed at the time it was taken. I also take the chance to look at any photographic habits, good or bad, I may have picked up and see if I can spot any areas that need working on.
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Thank you Chris.
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