I do not know about Victoria, but me, personally, I have decided I am going to do this for 1099 days. Although I am 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 you 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 if they take you to their computer to show it to you practically on an edit they have 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, to how to edit them, to which 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 have earned it. Get them those few hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trust me. They will love you forever for seeing right into their hearts.
I will be pulling double-duty a little so that I catch up on the 3 days I have missed so far. I should be up to par by the end of next week.
Meanwhile, I am 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?