Sea_Dog opened this issue on Dec 21, 2009 · 25 posts
Sea_Dog posted Mon, 21 December 2009 at 11:17 AM
Just a question of general interest - How do you decide what images to post here at RR? I've been here almost a year now and I am just flat blown away by the skills and talents of the artists who share their work.
What has me curious though is how they choose what to post. We see everything from snapshot pet and baby pictures to highly manipulated artistic images. As I look through the "what's new" gallery I find myself wondering why the artist chose a particular image to post?
I'm asking because I was "culling the herd", so to speak over the weekend, e.g. getting rid of some old shots that were blurring or poorly composed or which just made me ask "what was I thinking". In the process I realized that I had close to 3500 images in my files, and yet had posted just a little more than 100. So I asked myself "why those 100".
I think at first I posted almost anything that was in focus, had a reasonable subject and acceptible composition and lighting. Over the year I became much more restrictive about what I thought was "good enough". Granted "good enough" is highly subjective, but I find now that my posts come from a selection of 2-3 images out of 75-100 I shoot on an occasion.
So, how do YOU decide what you post?