Well I’m inundated with black and white Venice work prints and sorting through which images to work on. I have a workflow for my fine art black and white that goes like this: I develop film and make contact sheets, which sit around for a few days while I scan them (with a loupe) at various times and in various moods. The images that seem to have potential I mark with a yellow dot. I rarely pick more than 2 or 3 from a sheet (of 21 images), but the Venice material had a bunch of images I wanted a closer look at. So a day and a half in the darkroom has generated a couple hundred 4½" x 10" RC work prints,.
These I post on a cork board in the kitchen, and let simmer for a few days. I need to have them in my peripheral vision to see which ones are demanding more scrutiny, and which ones I’m done with and don’t need to see again. I edit and rearange and sequence, and winnow the pile down. The survivors are the ones that will become my initial large paints, on 10"x24" fiber paper.
In the next couple of weeks I will block out a multi-day darkroom session. This is the easy workflow, the one I know how to do. Now then, the digital pile.
Doug, Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your Venice travelogue. Though I lived in Italy for more than a year, my only visit to Venice was a long week in the dank chill of December. It was beautiful. I was numb but appreciative. And I took lots of wonderful pictures of people appearing and disappearing in the fog. Can hardly wait to see the exhibitions that come from your trip!
Cheers,
Karen
Posted by: Karen | February 08, 2005 at 10:32 AM