Photo Editing

[shootingstar]

I take alot of photos. I should be more ruthless--maybe I'll pare down and delete 8% of shots or so. Otherwise it will cost me computer memory-wise! I have looked at some photo blocs months later and pared down even more.

Since I blog, in addition just wanting photos for personal memories I'm taking a broader range of pics. Dearie also uses some of my pics (different ones) for his blogs and other stuff related to cycling advocacy.

In sending a few photos of myself to loved ones by email, yes about 25% of them are me on bike because I'm vacationing somewhere, but more often it's photos of me that has nothing to do with biking --I think that's how they would like to remember/visualize me: they know other facets/expressions of me.

Yesterday I recently submitted a short blog post about self with requested photos of me in action to a popular blog --which means on bike or snowshoeing. After scrolling through thousands of pics (yes) taken on my camera in past 8 months, I found I didn't have many decent ones of me close-up on bike. So after approx. 25 pics by dearie later yesterday, there were 3 good ones. I sent one I liked the most --a rare shot of me, from a distance, cycling against a snowy city skyline/ background. The sunlight was just right..

[rebeccaC]

Since I now use manual focus digital rangefinders I shoot in a completely different way than when I used dslr’s.

It’s been good for my creativity to get away from superfluous menus and back to taking my time to seeing light, setting exposure, focusing and composing. Even if I’m setting exposure, using zone focusing, composing and shooting quickly I feel I’m getting more of my creativity into images……and I have a lot less photos, but no less satisfying ones, to look through when I start post processing.

[shootingstar]

Since I now use manual focus digital rangefinders I shoot in a completely different way than when I used dslr’s.

It’s been good for my creativity to get away from superfluous menus and back to taking my time to seeing light, setting exposure, focusing and composing. Even if I’m setting exposure, using zone focusing, composing and shooting quickly I feel I’m getting more of my creativity into images……and I have a lot less photos, but no less satisfying ones, to look through when I start post processing.

Well, rebecca are there any manual pocket sized digital rangefinders? I used to deal with my Nikon manual SLR and took some good shots..ages ago when hard copy prints was the main option.

[rebeccaC]

not pocket size but much smaller than dslr's and with mine at least image quality very close to medium format. I can easily fit one of my rangefinders, an attached lens and another lens in my small topeak handlebar bag. There are some small mirror less cameras like the sony nex series that still aren't pocketable but in a good price range, easily used manually, with sensors as good as comparable dslrs and again much smaller than a dslr.

[BikeDutchess]

A timely thread as I'm working on a photo book about our trip to Australia last month. I managed to cut 1000+ photos to under 300. Used iMovie to put them together in a slide show (which I also uploaded to youtube) - this will probably be how I'll share them with most folks who are brave enough to ask (it's still 20 minutes long!). But I'd like to get them printed in a nice photo book for ourselves and it is proving to be a LOT of work. Blurb has a 40% off coupon which expires tonight - I really don't know if I'll make it by the deadline!

[rebeccaC]

A timely thread as I'm working on a photo book about our trip to Australia last month. I managed to cut 1000+ photos to under 300. Used iMovie to put them together in a slide show (which I also uploaded to youtube) - this will probably be how I'll share them with most folks who are brave enough to ask (it's still 20 minutes long!). But I'd like to get them printed in a nice photo book for ourselves and it is proving to be a LOT of work. Blurb has a 40% off coupon which expires tonight - I really don't know if I'll make it by the deadline!

asking

[BikeDutchess]

You brave soul! And not even a relative ! PM sent.