Decisions decisions

Editing is the hardest part, for me, in photography. That and the writing. For my digital class, the professor is 'gifting' us a 36x44 inch print. He has his own shop so he will be printing them for us. So we have to come up with a digital image that we want to print that big. And I canNOT fucking decide what I want to print. Should I do a landscape? Portrait? Still life? I have a few photos from my Australia trip I'd like to make large, but they require a lot of optimizing since there were rarely good photographic days. A lot of the images are quite flat (lack of good shadows and highlights).

On the other hand I have some images from a state park that I think would be better to print. I think some are on my flickr site. I like the reflection of the branches in the water (I think I called it abstract reflection or something). I may simply print that since it won't need much optimizing.

I also have to edit my photos for the Senior Project. Then I have to hope that what I do choose is cohesive and will fit into my theme. I am going for a memory lane type theme. I've been having issues with getting older (not that I don't like it, but the fact that I feel like I haven't accomplished much, did I make the right choices, life was so much simpler back when I was a kid, yadda yadda). So I photographed things that remind me of my childhood days. THings I used to do. Items I used to play with. Objects that remind me of being a kid. But now I have to put them all together so that they will say what I want them to say.

Editing is difficult because what I like may not be what most people will like. Yes, it ultimately is my project and my choice, but I do want others to relate and like my work.

Decisions decisions