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ricardovaste wrote:
Well, I have finally become one of those people who leave their personal photos untouched, in RAW (except the odd individual print).
Up to, say, August 2013, I always just used film for personal stuff, which naturally meant I'd send the images off and get them back and be able to view them in their (more or less) completed state, ready to go. Now, I have 12 months+ of digital images of personal life which aren't even processed, apart from the odd individual print (but very few). My project involved creating an album, which I guess is a saving grace of sorts, but it still means everything is left until the point of creation.
I think at some point I intended to gradually edit and put pages together as I went along, but that never happened. Maybe I thought things would be more consistent, as a final output, if they were all editing together - perhaps. At the same time, even when using film, it would still involve one final effort of culling and assembling and choosing.
My dilemma, or question, lies here:
1) Can you lose some of the connection or intention if reviewing several months down the line?
2) Or is this in itself the test of time? Whether the images still convey what they intended to you, when you're not as connected to the moment in time itself.
p.s. this post was written whilst looking at alt gear....Show more →
At one point, I had the same problem of RAW files piling up without being processed. And these were mostly folders full of family pictures from say a trip to Disneyland etc. Eventually I realized that I am never going to be able to keep up with the processing work for them. I am not accomplished enough in my processing skills to say process 200 pictures in a 2 hour session. Then I switched to RAW + JPEG for a while with the intention that I could go with jpegs for most pictures and use the RAW only when needed for challenging ones. That may actually be the right route for you as well. Personally, though I have switched out of even that and now I typically use RAW only for my "serious" photography endeavors and use jpegs for most casual family pictures.
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