Wow! We're just gettin' started here. We have 500,000 more images to
critique. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/20/2012 7:37 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> Hi, Moose -
>
> A couple of years ago, Maggie Steber, former photo editor of the New York
> Times, spent a week with me trying to teach me to edit. We edited the 5000
> photos of Honduras that I had already scanned into an ABC edit with 139
> photo in the A pile, 550 in the B pile and the rest in the C pile. After
> an intense week with Maggie, I still had a terrible time trying to edit
> anything because I know the people and remember the families and cannot be
> objective about the photos. She told me to get them all scanned and she'd
> help me again. She also said I should scan them all anyway so I can leave
> them to a university or library when I die. She said they would probably
> not want to be responsible for storing the 11 lateral filing cabinets of
> actual slides and film but would consider the scans an invaluable addition
> to the history of the people. So that's what I'm doing. I post a few here
> and there and go by what comments I get in an attempt to whittle the pile
> down a little. Any help I can get editing is always greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tina
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 6/18/2012 12:24 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>> It has occurred to me that I don't really have to have batch processing
>> for
>>> a super-duper scanner. I could use the Nikon for batch scanning, edit in
>>> LR, and pick out one or two out of every thousand or so to do the
>>> super-duper scan on! If you find a super-duper scanner, I would be
>>> interested.
>>
>> I've been wondering about the larger aspects of this project, stepping
>> back to see the forest, so to speak.
>>
>> If these were my images, and thus this were this my project, I'd ask
>> myself several questions.
>>
>> Is there really any value to having scans of every one of these images? I
>> have a hard time imagining what practical
>> things I could do with 500,000 scanned images. Even if stock values were
>> to come back, that's simply too many to index
>> in useful detail, too many for a client to go through.
>>
>> Do I want to spend a significant part of the remainder of my life editing
>> half a million images? Is this more or less
>> enjoyable, more of less good for my health, than other things I could be
>> doing? If not, how much actual commercial value
>> would I be creating?
>>
>> If I am interested in posterity, do I want to leave an indigestible mass
>> of images, or a carefully selected, still quite
>> large, selection of my best images?
>>
>> I suspect my answer would be that I would prefer to find a way of going
>> through the slides and selecting out those worth
>> the time, effort and expense of preserving in digital form. I'd keep all
>> of the originals in a safe way. Maybe I'll end
>> up well enough known that some future grad student will scan them all for
>> a dissertation. :-)
>>
>> I'd be looking for a viewer that will allow me to go through my slides
>> fairly rapidly, sorting into scan and hold
>> groups. If it works out on the porch with a beverage and fowl antics to
>> break the monotony, so much the better. ;-)
>>
>> The whole project then becomes much more manageable, and the results
>> actually more usable and possibly more valuable. If
>> I manage the whole thing before I go senile, die or lose interest - and I
>> haven't worn out the available supply of
>> scanners, I could repeat the process with the rest of the slides.
>>
>> Forester Moose
>>
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