All language subtitles for 9. Looking Back at Your Work

Editing is so important.

Knowing how to edit your work, knowing
what you have.

I was very lucky because, as b fightler

took me under her wing and gave me some
extraordinary

advice.

That for someone who wasn't listening
to anybody,

I'm kind of amazed that I listened to
her.

She designed mis magazine for Gloria
synum.

She was, of course, the art director at
harper's bazaar, after brodovitch with

ruth ansell, and did

an extraordinary number of years there.

She knew how to edit, and I did not
know how to edit my work.

I learned how to edit my work

through her.

She would look at my work, and

she knew right away what the good
picture was, and I couldn't understand

it.

How she knew that.

And I was sit there and

delaborate for

looking at every single frame for

hours, and then come up to the same,

wonder why she picked a sheep, ackned,
and try to

understand that.

And I think by doing that over and over,

I began to realize how to look for work

for the better work.

Editing is so important.

Knowing how to edit your work, knowing
what you have

tied with that very closely is another
thing.

That bha taught me or told me, which is

to look back at your work,

to stop every now and then

see what you have.

Edit that

no matter how much I was looking at
other photographers were,

you would have no sense of what you
were doing unless you stopped

and looked back

at what you had done

and made some sense out of it.

That was probably the

greatest advice

that b gave me.

Because

it's interesting to me now is years
have gone on, how so many photographers

don't do that.

Has so many photographers to shoot and
shoot and shoot,

and they don't stop

and look at and see what they did.

I think that this selection process can
be a very personal one, that it has to

do with where the image might end up.

I looked back and saw my early
repetage, and I was

envious of that young photographer
going out there and taking pictures

with such abandonment.

You can't go back, you can't go back
there.

But you can learn from what you did do

and apply it to going forward.

And I actually did try to borrow from
that a bit and put it into the more

formal portrait word.

I definitely used that experience

to go forward.

That is why it's important to look back,

to stop.

And look back, you'll be surprised,

there'll be something there you didn't
expect to see.

This was great roose, and it got it all
contrastsy and weird.

And then

I saw the Xerox machine version,

and it's much more beautiful

and not as contrasting, weird.

And it has more total range in it.

And then I sucked this on top of this.

And then I guess Alex went ahead and
made that, which was so nice, you know,

even though it's cool, it's a really
nice print.

So it has some blacks in it, but it has

colors.

And it's not like, when you look at it,
you just see contrast.

So I'm just let, you know, if you get a
Richard file,

you can, especially in the bigger
pictures,

you should.

We can always get into dalex, but if
you want to do, if you're doing them

too, thank you are.

If you just make sure that we cover the
gate.

So I said that was a good example.

As may go after,

I don't, I know we're not going over
here, so

just take yourself here.

But that's stuck here in,

just this, next to the big picture.

Michael mcclire,

to the left of it, right under Michael
Bluefield.

These are two saras's good music
stories, which I'm just waiting to see

what happens here before I move into
that.

Ok?

You just have to work and not give up
during the miserable times, and just

keep doing it.

It's rewarding to keep doing it.

When you think

you can't do it anymore,

it only gets more interesting.

And who knows what's going to happen
with technology.

And what's how you want to apply it

to what you're doing.

But your work is so important.

I can't tell you how important it is to
express yourself, and then take your

own feelings and express what's going
on in this world.

You do this long enough, and there are
so many different ways

to approach

every single day.

Some days will be really hard, and some
days would feel like magic, and some

days will feel terrible.

Like life.

It is a life, and it is a relationship,

and it needs to be nurtured and taken
care of and Fed.

Their rewards

can be wonderful.