>> > Yes I am!
>> > No I'm not.
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>There should be a warning message on each digital camera body:
>DO NOT DELETE IMAGES! NEVER!
November 27, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick,
I agree, but for an additional reason
(although the reasons above are valid for me,
too).
I have a file of negatives dating from the
sixties. I'm basically a pack-rat, and hardly
any negatives have escaped me. Now that I'm
an incipient old-fart, I can look back with
fresh perception. People change as time goes
on, so our relation with our own work
changes. Often when I look over old work I
see pictures I never saw before. Sometimes I
think my past self was not capable of seeing
the best ones.
Throwing away pictures before we have a
chance to examine them over the years is a
waste of a precious personal resource. Just
by holding our own work we can know both the
work and ourselves better.
In particular, digital (or digitized ...)
pictures are great because of that wonderful
slideshow function. I like to have work I'm
editing playing on the screen when I'm doing
other things because it's practically
subliminal ... (and, as an aside, as I
discovered last night, my own work playing on
the screen is a great antidote to the Borat
movie; my mind's eye needed a shower and
shave after that one ...).
>The problem is that when having memory card instead of a film you take
>more photos than with an analogue, isn't it?
>
>I'll stay with 12 non-eraseable frames on 120 film...
Me too!
regards,
--le
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>Cheers,
>Maciej
Greg "_" - 27 Nov 2006 23:30 GMT
In article <18qlm2ltncnb7leb8n6p0fdgenhjkqujb1@4ax.com>,
Lloyd Erlick <Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com> wrote:
> November 27, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick,
>
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> any negatives have escaped me. Now that I'm
> an incipient old-fart,
Gees you must be at least 50 :)
>I can look back with
> fresh perception. People change as time goes
> on,
Yes fungus and hair grows in strange places.
>so our relation with our own work
> changes.
After you alienate all your friends and relative your stuck looking at
old pictures.
> Often when I look over old work I
> see pictures I never saw before. Sometimes I
> think my past self was not capable of seeing
> the best ones.
Male or female?
> Throwing away pictures before we have a
> chance to examine them over the years is a
> waste of a precious personal resource. Just
> by holding our own work we can know both the
> work and ourselves better.
How much of a klutz I was.
> In particular, digital (or digitized ...)
> pictures are great because of that wonderful
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> email: portrait@heylloyd.com
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j - 28 Nov 2006 01:06 GMT
Lloyd Erlick wrote:> On 26 Nov 2006 09:53:19 -0800,
> I have a file of negatives dating from the
> sixties. I'm basically a pack-rat, and hardly
> any negatives have escaped me. Now that I'm
> an incipient old-fart, I can look back with
> fresh perception.
I am the same.
Significance of some of our photographs back then tell us that we were doing
the right thing by making them, even if we were unsure at the time. I am
happy that you made such.
Post them somewhere so that we may join you.
==
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