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Subject: RE: [OM] To improve, take more photos.. but to improve, take fewe r photos?
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:04:13 -0700
> The only real cure is to do some serious editing, and as 
> Barry says, flex the critique muscles. 

 I'm getting that impression, yup -- I suppose what I should do is take more
notes of which shots I like, and also which ones I _don't_ like, or some
sort of similar discipline at any rate.

> Here's a question
> for you: if you have 4-5 shots left on a 36 exposure, do you rattle
> them off to finish the roll, or do you say, wow, I have 5 more
> potential good shots left, and try to make each one a worthy shot?

 What I tend to do here is try and take a variety of shots of the same
thing, so that I can see which ones worked out best in the end -- that way I
can get the new film started sooner, but also have something to think about
when I look at the prints. 

 I think one problem I have is that it takes a lot of mistakes to pound
things into my head -- I can look at prints and think "boy, that doesn't
look very good", but the number of times I have to do that before I stop
doing the same thing is embarrasingly large.

 There's some sort of weird mental disconnect between the editing process I
do when looking at prints, and the editing process I do when taking shots;
if I could get the two closer together, I could probably save myself a lot
of wasted film.
 
 -- dan

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