As every photographer knows, the very best way to become a better photographer is to take a lot of pictures and edit those down to the best few. In that process, the photographer, ideally, develops an ongoing portfolio and figures out what their strengths are as a photographer. Besides focusing on their more successful photographs, the best photographers understand how to look at their failed images and figure out why those images did not work. Like in many pursuits, photographers learn as much or more from their mistakes as they do from their successes. Most photographers find it hard to edit their own work, especially when they are attached to the content or focused on the emotional experience they had creating it. Unfortunately, the viewer does not know the back story to your image. Looking at photographs as they are, without explanation, endorsement or captions is how almost all end-users of photographs experience them. To be able to edit your own photographs effectively you need to be able to similarly step back and look at the work as an outsider. In this workshop, master photographer and teacher David H. Wells will show you how to edit images — to select [...]
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