How to Make More of Your Back Catalogue as an Artist

About a year ago, I made a post on social media showing an image that I’d been working on for a project called “Benches”. It was an image that I’d made, and at the time of making it, I was thrilled with the composition, I’d waited patiently to make sure the scene had the elements that I needed and nothing more. The post production work was and is still in progress, but the rough treatment was about where I wanted it to be. It’s the cover image for this post.

Well, I’ve been reviewing that trip again  and found another great composition that I really, really like.

I have more post production work to complete, for instance I don’t like the vertical  bar close to girl and there’s work to do with the low and high lights, but it just goes to show, as photographers you’re never really done finding images in your back catalogue. The image of the couple is going into a work called “Ephemera”, which should be published this year. The image of the girl, I’m not sure. It has a place somewhere, perhaps in competition or a magazine submission at somepoint, the main thing is, this wasn’t one I’d picked out while initially reviewing the images made during the trip which was back in February 2023.

Put time and space in between the shoot and the image review

Reviewing the images you make immediately after a shoot, you’ll see your star images, the ones that stand out, or the ones you really wanted to hit and there’s a triumphant feeling when you see that you have it. Letting images ‘soak’ as I like to say, that is letting them marinate for a while, let’s you see them with the benefit of distance. If you give it a couple weeks months or even years as was the case with Girl on a Bench you may see more in the images you’ve made.