I don't know about Victoria, but me, personally, I've decided I'm going to do this for 1099 days. Although I'm currently 3 days behind.
One of the fun parts about being in the edit suite is making the decision on how to bring out the intent of the image.
Do I want it grounded in realism, or do I want it stylised? And if stylised, in what style, and with what intent? Point towards fantasy? Travel back in time? Feel like a page out of a comic book? Make it look like a painting?
Well, I say fun... Sometimes you have so many options before you that you even get paralysed by the sheer variety that you yourself have just created - if know a photographer, ask them about this, and watch how their face lights up at the prospect of sharing this very specific experience with you. Heck, bonus points to you if they take you to their computer to show it to you practically on an edit they've either done in the past, or are currently doing 😂
Innumerable choices are made from the moment those [easily] 1000+ raw files are moved from the camera to the laptop - from which of those 1000+ are worth editing, to which ones are worth trying to save (because there are always the shots that you really, REALLY like, but is either too noisy or not in focus), to how to edit them, to which ones of those edited ones are worth sharing, to which ones need a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th round of edits...
So when your photographer friend or lover tells you they feel like they want a pizza, a holiday, a perfume, a new lens, or a few thousand dollars, they've earned it. Get them those few hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trust me. They'll love you forever for seeing right into their hearts.
I'll be pulling double-duty a little so that I catch up on the 3 days I've missed so far. I should be up to par by the end of next week.
Meanwhile, I'm genuinely torn between these two edits. One feels perfect for a postcard, the other feels exactly right for a wall-mounted canvas print.
Or the other way around.
See? Be as kind as to help a photographer decide, would you?
