Comments on: Picture Purgatory

By: The View From My Studio | latoga photography

The View From My Studio | latoga photography — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:41:23 +0000

[...] The studio view pictured above is the same view I have from my home office. The home office which I spend many a day in for my day job. So when the evenings or weekends come, it can be a real struggle to spend more time in the home office to work on processing photos. This has resulted in a lot of photographing just to change my view, but photographs that most don’t see…photographs stuck in my personal picture purgatory. [...]

By: Photo: Half Dome Rush Hour | latoga photography

Photo: Half Dome Rush Hour | latoga photography — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:04:12 +0000

[...] some perusing through my picture purgatory tonight and came across this great photo from a few years back when I hiked Yosemite’s Half [...]

By: latoga

latoga — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:51:27 +0000

Great topic mark…lately I feel like all of my photos are sitting in picture purgatory since the day job has exploded in activity (recession…what recession?) and photos languish on my hard drives waiting for my eventual return.

I guess the question in my mind is: does purgatory only start if you have already done a first pass through a set of photos? In my case, I’m saying yes…otherwise I would feel more guilt ridden than I already do.

By: Michael Durham

Michael Durham — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:02:13 +0000

Given the luxury of time, the expectations of what we might have hoped to catch for a shoot pass into appreciation (or disappointment) for what we actually capture. It can take a little time for the mind to “change channels” about our expectations.

When I have that time (I usually don’t), I try and take a week or two before making final edits. Fresh eyes bring a second look removed from the immediacy of the moment when the image was made.

This is a similar idea to reviewing the old dustbin of discarded images.

I also have a catalog that is for “review later” when images present technical challenges, or need more time than I have to refine such as complex panorama images that need stitching, or captions that need extensive research.

When time allows I will put some of these images back in the workflow – such as this photo of a Malaysian Rainforest that I stitched long after my return.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2327421019_1e7ab1f139.jpg

By: Paul Grecian

Paul Grecian — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:46:43 +0000

It is interesting how we look at things differently as time passes. I submitted work to an Audubon Calendar a while back that contained some older work. An image that didn’t strike me at first was used and has become a popular print. It’s an important exercise Mark, thanks for lighting a fire. Because of your post I pulled out an image I blogged about here – http://photonz.wordpress.com/

By: Paul Lester Photography » Blog Archive » Rescued from Picture Purgatory

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:23:22 +0000

[...] Graf came up with an interesting concept in this post. In the post he says: I thought of a series called “Rescued from Picture Purgatory” that I [...]

By: Lana

Lana — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:14:24 +0000

I love this idea, although I don’t have time to participate right now, unfortunately. I’ll be back when I do, however!

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:12:14 +0000

I would give it a go, but man, I went through my archives last year and did a “major delete” of images that I would never show a client.
Wow, … that was some two week period!
But still, … I can easily create some new junk to rescue!!

By: Daniel Sroka

Daniel Sroka — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:12:55 +0000

I just ran into a similar discovery, rediscovered a photograph that had been moldering in a folder for almost a year. I wrote about it here:
http://blog.danielsroka.com/work-in-progress/work-in-progress-glass-slipper.htm

By: julie

julie — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:01:18 +0000

I was thinking of something along the same lines, also as Paul had replied to someone else who mentioned not posting some thigs they think are maybe a bit too different, I have a few of those I’ve been too reluctant to share – so it sounds like a plan for an hour or two this weekend!