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5Oct/050

Quality vs Quantity

As everyone knows, userinfohelloheather and I shoot a rather large number of photos with our digital camera (a Canon A80). That's a bit of an understatement actually. :)

Our basic philosophy with using this camera is: shoot more now, edit later. That is, we shoot a lot of photos during the event, and cull the bad ones at home. The cost to shoot a single photo with the A80 is amazingly small, therefore it doesn't make sense to /not/ shoot whenever and whatever we want.

Those that we want to save, are posted to our online gallery.

However, for a long time, our culling was...reserved, let's say. The number of photos going online was rather absurd, given the importance of the event. Now, of course, part of this comes with the "ooh look shiny" part of owning a new camera and the dead-easy way in which photos can be distributed, but our methodology resulted in bad habits being formed.

There is a constant struggle between wishing to "tell a story" with the photos we post, and simply present some nice photos from the event. I have to constantly remind myself that our online gallery isn't (or shouldn't be) a flip-book of the event, but a showcase of our photography. I don't mean to make it a resumé, just a nice family album.

In the past couple months I've been put more thought into the image review and posting to the web. I've tried really hard to take a much more critical eye to the photos we shoot and eventually post, limiting images to those that really jump out. It is my hope that, as I take a more critical eye to those photos that I've already taken, I will take a more critical eye to the photos I /am/ taking. That is, an improvment in deciding what makes it to the web will influence my thoughts before taking photos in the first place.

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