When it comes to photoshoots - and editing the results - I often find myself being incredibly ruthless when I start to "cull" the selection. Slight mark in the frame? Goodbye. Just looks odd? Goodbye. Getting bored of looking through the photos? Meh. Close Lightroom and revisit at a later stage.

This rather unorthodox process often neglects photos that may have had potential, but since I didn't feel like dealing with the editing process at that exact moment in time, I just skipped over it and carried on.

So what's wrong here?

A case in point can be seen in this photo above - taken during a shoot for a friend of his incredibly aerodynamic racecar (believe it or not, this is based on a Nissan 200SX). While it may not be a traditionally bad photo, I saw the slight light trail on the middle right of the frame (I was light painting), and immediately decided to skip over this one. Now, close to a year later, I came across these photos again on a hard drive, and thought "hey, maybe that one isn't as bad as I thought".

And maybe it isn't. Am I being too harsh? I could have always removed the lightrail in Photoshop, as well as touching up the weird shadows that appeared there.

No creature comforts to be seen inside here at all. And yes, this is another photo that was never used.

Strangely, most of the photos that I never originally choose and only see the light of day later elect a positive response. I guess I stand quite strongly by the "quality of quantity" motto, but when it comes to a very rare car, maybe quantity wins here.

What's your view on photoshoots? The more the merrier, or rather a few, thoughtful selections?

The garage in these photos also houses another breed of JDM beast - for when you want your speed and comfort fix all in one.

Thanks for looking!

See the original photoshoot here

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