I’ve been sorting all my photos lately – doing the external hard drive storage shuffle that is often required when you take quite as many photos as I do. And I’ve been looking through photos that I have from old newspaper jobs, and rescuing the rejects.
They are rejects because when you shoot for a newspaper not only is your print space limited, but you just can’t print lots of the blurry, underexposed, too dark pictures that you quite like. My newspaper (thank God) didn’t have the light, tight, bright regulations of some, ahem cough, ‘newspapers’ but these pics would never have made the cut.
They aren’t the pics that would have illustrated the story in the best way, given the space available. To be honest, they wouldn’t have printed very well on those super absorbent paper pages. It wouldn’t have been worth the time lightening and sharpening them. And I’m guessing my aesthetic has changed a lot since I stopped photographing six jobs a day and started teaching and experimenting more.
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I like that last one. There’s a nice sense of anticipation.
Only six?
hehehe
I Love this work Gem! Doesn’t the young girl in the front of the first photo look like Melody in the face! this is a fab series Gem my favorites are the second and the last, great artistic work. Mammax