Sunday 4/18/16 Week 2

Today James and I decided that we needed to finish phase two of narrowing down our photos. Phase one consisted of us going through our photos independently and narrowing them down to the photos we liked. Today we met at James's house and went through our narrowed down photos together. After phase one I had 240 photos left and James had 500 left. We went through all 740 and decided kept only the ones that we would be proud to see in our book. We also had to avoid keeping two similar images. For example, I had a really cool star trails photo that I wanted to use but that meant that I couldn't include another impressive photo I took of the stars in the same location. It also turns out that many of our photos are nearly identical and we will have to compare them side by side to determine which one we want to use. After going through the majority of our photos we ran out of time and I had to come back to James's house after dinner. Then we were finally able to complete phase two. The further we get in narrowing the photos down the harder it's getting. Sometimes we disagree on which photos should go in and it is hard to come to an agreement. We both want the other person to get their favorite photos in the book but the thing is that the book will have both our names on it. We are having to walk the fine line between letting the other person put the photos of their choice in and keeping the book true to the original vision.