Recently Rediscovered...and check out those flares man!!

The process of setting up my portfolio site (that's www.saulmolloy.com if anyone missed it!) put me in mind of something I'd read a while back about photos which stay with you, that you take and you like, and keep liking for years and years. Most of my images aren't like that, and I expect that in that I'm no different to most photographers. I might shoot a couple of frames of something that I'm initially very excited about, get them home and realise that I did pretty well. I'll leave them for a bit then get round to processing them, tweak this or that, post 'em here if I still like them and them move on.

They'll pop up again every couple of months whilst I'm incidentally glancing through the catalogue. Occassionally I'll stumble across something that I'd forgotten all about, but mostly these are images that have inhabited the space around me for substantial chunks of time, through editing, posting, viewing on my own pages as I make my way through the web-world and the rest.

Some of them, I'll keep on enjoying but most just slip off my 'like meter', there'll be something about them that isn't quite right, something that shows a technical deficiency that I've since learned about and overcome, maybe I'll just have seen too many the same from other people and eventually I just look at them and think 'naaaaaah'.

I think I'm a pretty harsh critic of myself, and particularly of my photographic output. If I can't quite count on two hands the photos that I've taken that I really like, I certainly wouldn't be needing all my toes. Photography seems such a disposable artform now - taking an image and getting anything more that a brief glimpse and a 'that's nice', is a difficult challenge. I know that a lot of photogs seem to ram hundreds of images onto their folio sites. I'm not sure I'm ever going to do that, so that 'portfolio' is going to take a while to grow. Is that good or bad? Should I be showing off hundreds of photos for potential clients to look through or just a few? It seems my own judgement wont give me that choice.