[pure-silver] Re: Getting Organized
- From: MICHAEL KIRWAN <mkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:11:48 -0700 (PDT)
Interesting dilemna, I was going through a bunch of negatives I had discarded a
number of years ago. One caught my eye, I scanned and brought in Photoshop, and
Oh My Gosh, Made a number of prints, all the way up to 20x24 and this image
will be the center piece for my upcoming show.
I have a tiered filing system, and I am glad I do as this negative could have
been lost forever
Mike
--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Getting Organized
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 7:48 AM
Elias Roustom wrote:
> At the risk of revealing too much about my worst habit, the lack of habits,
> I'm going to ask if anyone else has the same problem I'm having.
> Two years into photography, I now have sheets and sheets of negatives,
> prints experimenting with every sort of technique or paper or developer,
> and no order to any of it. I'm at a point now where it's getting hard to
> move forward with any photographic project without looking for something
> under something else... I'm going to assume I'm not the only one who has
> an obsession with this craft and is also very busy (with paying work).
> I've got some ideas of how to dig out, straighten up and fly right, but
> I'm curious how some of you have dealt with putting your house in order?
> Not only about storage and retrieval, or record keeping, but about anything
>pertaining to managing current projects and planning future projects. I could
>use some inspiration, and some good ideas.
>
When I shot mostly 35mm negatives, I got overwhelmed with all of them.
Switching to mostly 4x5" helped a lot with that because I was more careful
about what I took photographs of. I certainly through out negatives where I
goofed in one way or another (jiggled the tripod, forgot to stop down after
composing, etc.).
Even so, things got out of hand. I decided to do posterity a favor (not
expecting to become a highly regarded famous photographer), and threw out
all the negatives I made up until then (whenever that was), except for the
very few I thought I might wish to print again. I also throw out all
negatives I have made and not printed in a year. If I am not interested in
printing within a year, I will probably never print it, so who needs it? It
may be that the one-year interval is too long. Perhaps if I do not print a
negative within about 3 months, I should discard it.
Those negatives that survive go into mylar folders in archival envelopes for
4x5. For 35mm, the same, but the sleeves are polypropylene (IIRC).
Ansel Adams said, approximately, that the most important darkroom accessory
is a large waste basket.
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