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Re: [OM] IMG: Faviana and Reymundo

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Faviana and Reymundo
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:37:57 -0400
Hi, Moose -

A couple of years ago, Maggie Steber, former photo editor of the New York
Times, spent a week with me trying to teach me to edit.  We edited the 5000
photos of Honduras that I had already scanned into an ABC edit with 139
photo in the A pile, 550 in the B pile and the rest in the C pile.  After
an intense week with Maggie, I still had a terrible time trying to edit
anything because I know the people and remember the families and cannot be
objective about the photos.  She told me to get them all scanned and she'd
help me again.  She also said I should scan them all anyway so I can leave
them to a university or library when I die.  She said they would probably
not want to be responsible for storing the 11 lateral filing cabinets of
actual slides and film but would consider the scans an invaluable addition
to the history of the people.  So that's what I'm doing.  I post a few here
and there and go by what comments I get in an attempt to whittle the pile
down a little.  Any help I can get editing is always greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Tina

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 6/18/2012 12:24 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > It has occurred to me that I don't really have to have batch processing
> for
> > a super-duper scanner.  I could use the Nikon for batch scanning, edit in
> > LR, and pick out one or two out of every thousand or so to do the
> > super-duper scan on!  If you find a super-duper scanner, I would be
> > interested.
>
> I've been wondering about the larger aspects of this project, stepping
> back to see the forest, so to speak.
>
> If these were my images, and thus this were this my project, I'd ask
> myself several questions.
>
> Is there really any value to having scans of every one of these images? I
> have a hard time imagining what practical
> things I could do with 500,000 scanned images. Even if stock values were
> to come back, that's simply too many to index
> in useful detail, too many for a client to go through.
>
> Do I want to spend a significant part of the remainder of my life editing
> half a million images? Is this more or less
> enjoyable, more of less good for my health, than other things I could be
> doing? If not, how much actual commercial value
> would I be creating?
>
> If I am interested in posterity, do I want to leave an indigestible mass
> of images, or a carefully selected, still quite
> large, selection of my best images?
>
> I suspect my answer would be that I would prefer to find a way of going
> through the slides and selecting out those worth
> the time, effort and expense of preserving in digital form. I'd keep all
> of the originals in a safe way. Maybe I'll end
> up well enough known that some future grad student will scan them all for
> a dissertation. :-)
>
> I'd be looking for a viewer that will allow me to go through my slides
> fairly rapidly, sorting into scan and hold
> groups. If it works out on the porch with a beverage and fowl antics to
> break the monotony, so much the better. ;-)
>
> The whole project then becomes much more manageable, and the results
> actually more usable and possibly more valuable. If
> I manage the whole thing before I go senile, die or lose interest - and I
> haven't worn out the available supply of
> scanners, I could repeat the process with the rest of the slides.
>
> Forester Moose
>
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
>
>
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