Thursday, May 12, 2005

Show only 1% of your photos

"When you have hundreds of pictures where you used to have one, people are less likely to ever go back to look at any of them," said Nancy Van House, a professor in the school of information management and systems at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies the social use of photography. "A lot of people are getting to the point in their digital photography now where it's becoming a problem."


Nice article on CNET about slow drowning in digital pictures. Edit, edit the hell out of your pictures. Leave only the very best. No, 100 out of 1000 is not the very best. National Geographic photographers shoot thousands of images per assignment and still only 4-5 end up in the magazine. The very best. And they sure do impress the viewer and stick out. So delete crat, file away stuff that has meaning to you and only show your very best to friends and family.

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