Kill your darlings

A problem I always come across during the post-processing of a shoot is doing the selection. Rarely do I already know during the shoot which photos are the final ones as I often end up taking more photos than necessary.

This image, which used to be my Facebook cover for a long while, didn't fit the story of La Calavera de Karima.

The most frustrating is the moment when you discover you didn't take enough photographs, luckily, this doesn't happen a lot. But what happens most of the time is that I have too many images. For instance I decide to go for a triptych and end up with 4 images I really like. Or when I planned to have 10 images and I shot just enough looks to get to that, but ended up taking more close-ups and detail shots than planned and now can't choose.

Didn't mean to have a portrait for the Caterpillar's Sister.

In those cases it's a classic case of killing your darlings. Like with the Caterpillar's Sister portrait. That editorial never was supposed to have a close-up portrait, but for some reason I did shoot one. Now I don't know whether to consider it as a single shot or an extra in the editorial? On my website I added it as an extra photo, apart from the editorial. Perhaps that answers the question then.

Not always do the extra photographs come online. I actually think that most of the time they end up in the archives, never to be seen by anyone.

One of the latest editorials I shot was especially hard to choose from. I don't know why exactly, but it took me a really long time before I had the selection done. Unfortunately, I can't show the editorial itself yet but I can show which photo didn't make it to the final selection.

photography VIORELLA LUCIANA

make up and hair PASCALE HOOGSTRAATE

model KARI VAN DER VOORT

top and skirt LINDA FRIESEN

special appearance LUCY

This really was a matter of killing your darlings, as multiple looks and photos didn't make it to the final selection. However, I liked this image too much to just keep it for myself.

Viorella