David Alan Harvey Loft Workshop, entry 11: it is time to stop and go to bed, so here is one token image from Times Square
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 1:31AM ;)
In the end, for reasons that I will explain later, I would have one hour to edit my Times Square take and pull the selects together to take to the final critique that would determine what the final images for the evening slide show would be.
As I had only one hour, I did it in an hour and took a decent selection of images to the final critique - still worried that I would not have enough that would make the final cut. Now, however, I have no such time restriction. I can take five hours, ten hours, 20 if I feel like it. So it is much more difficult to edit them down and make a selection.
Only now have I finally found the time to sit down and look at every image that I shot in Times Square. I have spent the last several hours going back and forth through my take and I am not even close to being ready to make a selection to post here.
I want to go to bed, so I am going to post just this one image for now. I selected it for one reason - simply because this is the final image of my Times Square take. I reached it just a little bit ago and so decided to post it and stop for the night.
It is not one of the images I that I brought to the workshop or that went into my piece of the class slideshow. I will not post any of my images that went into the slideshow in what will probably be a multiple-part Times Square series to follow over the next day or so. At the end, when my coverage of the workshop is all done, I will present my part of the slideshow, but I don't want any of the images to appear in this blog until I do.
Also, David was very strict with us about narrowing everything down to only our very best work. I will not be so strict with the images I present here - in part because in many cases I do not know what the best image is, and also I want to show the process that I went through to get to where I wound up.
Friday will be a busy day for me. Among other things, I must go to Anchorage to pick Margie up and bring her home. I do not know how I will find any significant time for this blog, but I will try. Plus, all the images of my initial edit are in my head and they will be playing in my mind even as I go to Anchorage and take care of all these other things. So maybe I can get the Times Square posts all done before I go to bed Friday night. I hope so. The Loft Workshop was a great experience, one that will be with me for the rest of my life, but still it is time to get it all blogged and to move on to other things.
Reader Comments (4)
narrowing it down must be difficult, it is such a subjective task. I can't wait to see it.
I guess by now you are seeing it. Just one more post to go.
The editing and sequencing was a key activity for us that week - and I've learned much from David in that regard. However, I also think selecting shots for the final projection yielded a different purpose and different outcome, and there are now many shots I look back on that resonate more with me as I continue my own project. Not only do I feel the same is true for you, but it's very evident that in the final hours awarded to you, you managed to come back with hundreds of frames that are now bubbling up beyond just a stream of consciousness - your story now seems that much more powerful.
I'm playing catchup on your blog after a couple of days away and recovering from the flu but I'm looking forward to relishing in all these Times Square shots you posted. This blog is a whole other workshop - at least for me. Thanks for this effort, Bill!
You're welcome, Zun!