Editing with Rhythm

I’ve noticed something kinda humorous over the last year or so. When I’m editing a massive group of photos—sorting out selects from keepers from junk—and I’m listening to music with a good beat, I move between photos in sync with the beat.

Heavy duty strong beat dance music or rock and roll, I move between frames fast. Sometimes on the beat, sometimes every other beat. But my fingers dance on the keyboard right in time. When I get too involved and really start moving too fast, I have to back up a few frames and re-roll and pick a slower subset of beats.

Beat/move, beat/move, beat/move, hold on a few beats and check out this image, move forward on the beat. Move back on the beat. Keep going. Beat/move/beat/move.

I’m sure it looks its craziest when I’m bouncing between three or four images trying to decide rankings. In my brain, it makes total sense. I’m sure that to an outsider, however, it can look like a hyper-spastic seizure-inducing what-the-frak-is-he-doing mess. Fine by me. Whatever works to slice and dice a set down.

This observation brought to you by the ranking of 3 and the right arrow key. Now back to editing another set. The Foo Fighters are up in iTunes. Oh yah.