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Keepers?

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Jayson A Forum Member • Posts: 84
Re: Keepers?
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bgreg wrote:

I hear the term "keeper" tossed around frequently . A keeper can be a lot of different things to different people and I imagine some people scratching their heads wondering if we all have the same keeper criteria.? I have tossed pics in the trash over the decades not because of the image quality or focus or exposure but because they were just not interesting enough to impress me . I'd need a box car to store pics back in the film days if I wasn't picky.Pics of family are always keepers regardless of image quality. Besides family pics what keeps you from trashing a pic. Is a keeper to you any image that is actually not blurry or very poorly exposed? What's your keeper look like and what will you do with all those keepers in the end?

I've had photos that I glossed over when I first took it thinking it just wasn't interesting, but then I went back and decided to just try editing and now it's a very cool looking image. So yeah, I only throw away photos that I missed focus on or it's so bad that I can't really use any part of it.

Here's the image I was talking about:

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At first, the image just appeared to be a boring snapshot, but as I was scrolling through my photos, the roots caught my eye and I liked the way they leaded the eye into the background so I started playing with a moody type edit and I was pleasantly surprised and now I like the photo 😊

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