I often find images that I really like among my missed or mistaken shots. Their random and crazy nature appeals to me
I have written about a particular part of my workflow before. One that some people might find peculiar: I never delete an image.
I keep even the worst and most miserably blurred and underexposed frame, and literally have almost every single shot that I ever exposed on digital and a far majority of those taken on film in my archives. I see no reason to delete them. They take up very little room and eat no bread, and I get a kick from digging out some of the weird, fascinating, beautifully abstract images that hide in this treasure trove.
Others might find me crazy, and I'm sure that a lot of people find the images both ugly and uninteresting, but luckily I can do what I please and like what I want to like.
And I like mistaken shots.
I like what comes from completely unintended randomness.
Sometimes ...
Not all of these random shots come out interesting or pretty, and there's a ton of my misses that are absolutely useless. But I find quite a few that I like.
A few years ago I even gathered some in a small book and had it printed on demand.
One copy. For myself.
I have since done three more volumes of these books, and yet another one was underway, and I had both gathered the images and uploaded the book to Blurb.
But the price for this project went through the roof, and I decided to abort it. The book is 60 pages 18x18 centimeters or 7*7 inches, so a pretty small book, and actually one of the smallest formats that Blurb supports. Including VAT and postage it would cost me 67 US$ to get the hardcopy! That was just too steep for me, and I decided to abandon the project.
That might be it for these book projects. The costs for printing on demand is simply too high for these small “for fun” projects.
I’m no made out of money!
In stead you can see all the images here. In the book they were all cropped to squares to fit the layout, but here you get them in all their random glory.
