Right! ;-)
Tina
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
> >>
> >>
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