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Ok I have thought about this on and off for a while now. See if you can relate to this.

I go out on a shooting landscape shots and come back loading my pics straight up on to the comp and pretty much view them all there are then. At the time I view them unless one really stands out I will usually not be so impressed with them.

Now say 2 days down the line I view these pics again then one or two will seem much better and I will think well how come it didn't appeal to me 2 days ago?

Now I am pretty much putting this down to the original location still being fresh in my mind. When I see the picture I also remember the location and this pretty much shatters any illusion I am trying to create in the image or indeed the world the image creates in the viewers mind.

Sound familiar?

I am now thinking I should always leave a 2 or 3 day gap before I review my images.

Do you guys do anything similar?
 
I'm in exactly the same boat. I'll upload them all, grab the eyecatching ones, and then leave it for a few weeks, go back over my old rolls and find ones that I think 'omg, why didn't I see this gem?!'

and so the cycle goes.
 
I think its the 'oh god I got some great shots' disappointment theory. You are convinced each time you got some classics, so expectations are way too high, so its always an anticlimax, and until that has worn off its hard to look at your work objectively. Well, thats my thinking anyway, and yes, I do exactly the same.
 
It's one way film has an advantage of digital - it forces you to wait.

I generally hate pretty much everything I bring back from a trip but a week or two later have a set I like. And then the long term doubt sets in...
 
Yup, Im the same!
When Ive shot my pics for my nail comps, Ive made the mistake of filling a card, then toddling of with my model to check it out on the pc.
I am always disappointed and over-critical and I think on occasion my model has felt as if its her fault.
So now only ever have a look to check the fall of the light, composition etc, then I wait a day or so before I start making my choices on which images to process.
When I come back to the folder weeks later, I definately find I see them with completely fresh eyes and spot other 'gems'!
 
There was a famous street photographer who didn't check his shots for months after he took them. I think it was so he could revisit the photographs with a fresh perspective. Unfortunately he died with about 3500 shots or rolls unprocessed. Me, I come home and go through my shots there and then. Because of my photoblog I always need a shot for the next day. After some events I'll have plenty of material. Other days I'll browse the archives looking for something. I don't know if there is a perfect time to look at your images. I'm happy if they work. In 5 years everything I'm doing now might seem like total crap. Right now, I'm happy with it.
 
its pretty much the smae for me sie. what i find really frustrating tho is when i photoshop a pic and think it looks great but go back to it few days later and think its all wrong!
pbh
 
Seems as though we all do the same theI'll toddle off now and look at last months rejections - always assuming I can find them:bang:
 
Same with me, really. I go through my shots, save all the OK ones, delete the rest, then usually pick 1 or 2 and process them. I'll go on thinking those are the only good-uns I got until I look back a few days later and find a few more.

I rarely end up with more than 1 or 2 images that I'm really pleased with.

But often the dullest shot can look fantastic with a little bit of photoshopping!
 
shoot, sort, cut the chaff, process the good, done.

go back a few days later and play some more...try a couple new things. with continual picture taking there's a continuous roll over of images. I'm sure many are the same...not always feasible to return all the time to pics you took a while back - plus I prefer to know what I've got all the time rather than 'maybe I've not processed that one yet'...
 
I always look at my pictures again after 2-3 months, before archiving them.
The main reason is, the more PS work i do, i discover better ways of editing pictures. Therefor a picture that was deemed a bit naff, might just make the grade now.
Dean:)
 
always upload and have a quick review and maybe play with a couple about 2 seconds after i have walked through the door then sit down over the next couple of days or so and relook at them with more time and care, and never afraid to go back weeks or months later and have another visit as i am learning new techniques and things all the time that i can then reapply to an older shot and make it better.
 
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