Editing -Thursday 7th August 2008

Ok, so finally on to editing the Thames Town project.  Getting the images down from 350ish to fewer than 100 wasn’t too tricky by just generating jpegs of all the images and flying through Bridge with them.  My poor laptop is suffering enough with the heat here without having to do all the work on the full sized 70mb scans…  After dividing the images up into groups by subject I have managed to get them down to about 45, with the possibility of substituting some of them for images I initially dropped if they fit better into the layout.  Had to drop some of my favourite images from the shoot like the antenna image and an image of a coach under a sun awning with a house roof ‘sitting’ on top visually.  They are strong images but do not fit in with the aesthetic of the whole so have to go.  Reminds me of one of the first lessons in editing a story we learnt at Newport –quite often you have to drop your favourite image because it just does not fit or add anything to the whole.  Because they can’t make the final cut I have included them here…

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