I am sure that some of you wonder about how many pictures does such an extensive trip represent. Well, I took around 22'000 street photographs during the last year, which is about 60 pictures a day. Since I edited while traveling, I only have kept around 6'500 pictures in my archive, which corresponds to 18 pictures a day. Or in other words, about one picture per every hour I wasn't sleeping.
Evidently, there are large variations from day to day, and country to country :
10 pictures/day in Mexico
13 pictures/day in Australia
25 pictures/day in India
40 pictures/day in Myanmar
Does it mean that some countries are better for street photography than others ? Probably yes, at least in terms of opportunities. Yet other factors such as personal connection, safety, local culture and climate do also matter a lot.
6'500 pictures is still way too much, so over the next few weeks, I'll further trim my archive (I won't delete the excluded pictures) and hope to bring it down to a collection of 500 pictures. These images should be the most interesting ones and well representative of our experiences, sort of a souvenir slideshow of the journey. The final step will be to find the 50-100 images in this collection worthy of a book.
Shooting was easy, yet I fear that the real tough part has just begun … it's all in the editing, right ?
Below is the next to last picture I took during the trip. I wonder if the boss keeps production statistics too ? (click on picture for high res)
Leica M9 with 35mm Lux Asph
So your trip is now over? Man…. time flies.
I hope you have fun editing your treasures!
Yes, time flies, but actually the trip went very slow most of the time, we had a lot of time to enjoy it. Cheers
Amazing trip & pictures.
Once you get your pictures down to your favorite 100 (which will only be 5 per stage, not very much at all), I propose a contest : we send you 1 or 5 euros by paypal to vote for our top 3, the person who guesses the overall top 3 gets a printout of the winning photography : A4 format if the winner sent 1 euro, A3 format if he sent 5 euros. How's that ?
Good luck with re-adjusting.
Nicolas
Hi Nicolas, do you organize contests in your professional life ? ;) seems a great idea though I am not sure I wanna manage the logisitics of it. First, I’ll have to do a first editing, than as suggested by some others too, maybe it would be good to have readers participate in the final choices. I need to think about it.
Yanidel, the whole trip was a joy to experience for us, the online viewers, as well. Congratulations on the epic voyage, and good luck with what is indeed a very difficult stage of the process!
I (and I'm sure many others) are extremely excited to see the new book. I just 2 days ago ordered your previous book and I look forward to ordering the new one!
Cheers, and good luck!
Bisher
http://www.bisherphotos.com
Thanks for ordering the book, hope you enjoy it and the surrealism around it ;)
Cheers, Yanick