When we first started out shooting photos (almost 20 years ago now) it was little green rolls of Fuji Velvia: 36 shots apiece and each frame would cost around a dollar. The magic was in the processing and editing – scrawling through six frames at a time and selecting the winners – usually 3-5 shots that were sharp, well-composed, perfectly exposed and looked good. These frames would then be cut out of the roll with scissors and placed in small plastic slide mounts. The remainder – the rejects – would fall to the floor.
Every now and then one of the fallen transparency frames would catch your eye and you'd add one more keeper to the selection.
These days it's a little different. Each week we shoot up to 1000 frames on the Eos 5D MkIII. From those, we shortlist about 200 that we like the look of. Then we edit them for technical detail and quality and reduce that to about 100 images that make the grade. Finally we select 8-9 for each week's edition of Dunedin Light.
It is from the cutting room floor that we draw our Facebook images, but sometimes some really nice shots get cut – they just don't fit with the rest of the images – so this week we are bringing you some of our favourites from the cutting room floor.
More east swell this week thanks to this unusual weather system and the persistent high in the southwest pacific. We're excited ...
See you up the coast...
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