Bolivia
While editing for the story in Bolivia, my thought process was to find the pictures that accurately depict some of the more visuals aspects described in the article. I chose the images that impacted me the most then went from there. I wanted to have a really strong start and ending to my slideshow so I consciously worked around my two chosen images. I also wanted to make sure there was a good visual variety and that similar situations or visuals were not together.
Some of the difficulties I ran into while creating this edit were the repetitiveness of the images and the limited number of pictures. Many of the pictures show the same idea or same action but with different people and different angles or times of day. Both large and small numbers of pictures to choose from at the beginning of an edit have their downfalls and benefits. I want to see more from the photographer’s take so I can understand the lives of these people and more of the things they do, but I also do not want to have to sift through thousands of pictures. The limitation of such a small number of pictures was a good learning curve for me; it made me narrow down what I wanted to see much faster and helped me develop my ideas.
Images by The New York Times for educational use only
