Taking stock
Earlier, I mentioned that I was going through all my stuff; practically mining it for projects and ideas. Most recently, I’ve been working through photographs.
I have years of digital and film images to work through and my computer is currently crammed with images, so much so that my laptop warns me of an ever more worrying lack of free space. This is my own fault and simple to remedy.
If I look back, with my first used and abused compact and my used and cherished mirrorless follow up, my digital photo practise has been to take images, delete out-of-focus shots and upload the rest to my laptop, prior to image editing. I would cut the numbers down in Apple Photos before editing the images themselves in Adobe Photoshop and then… well, that’s where my workflow ended.
No methodical printing, display or file reducing: all would just sit on my laptop over the years; six to be exact. That’s a lot of images.
So now, I’m cutting them down, with number reductions, file size reduction and image display, partly on my website, but in larger numbers on Alamy, the photo stock website, through which I’ve had a few sales. I’m aiming to sell more.
I’m working my way through to the end of 2016’s pictures, while working concurrently on 2017’s. Marvellous amounts of space have been freed up and more will follow as I work backwards through 2015. Interestingly, while refining images, my digital darkroom technique has got more varied and capable, but I am intending to take the old images to the best point I can and finishing them, rather than tinkering with new techniques ad nauseam. The newest images will get the fullest treatment.
I seem to have a technique at last. With this order, I hope to join the dots between what I’ve made and learned to use on new image making. I will display and aim to sell accordingly.
Burning Details 