Keeping photos

mangobreeder

mangobreeder

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Can we have a poll please

1. I keep every single photo regardless
2. I delete ruthlessly and only keep the very best
3. I keep more than I delete
4. I delete more than I keep
 
4. I delete more than I keep.

I'd love it to be 2, but I think "hmm I might want to access that photo in the future".
 
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Up until recently, "I keep every single photo regardless". But I'm now trying to unlearn that habit
 
It really depends on how the shoot has gone, I tend to delete any blurry or out of focus images, such as not focused on the eyes, that sort of thing. Other than that I'll keep most photos unless I've burst shot and only need one shot from it. On average I'm probably 3. Used to be 1 though.
 
Between 3 and 4 for me. But I don't machine gun my camera at 12FPS and hope for the best. My photography has a much slower pace to it. I still may get a fair few photos of certain scene, bracketing exposure or focus, trying slightly different compositions, recording changing illumination as the sun sets, etc. So I will hack down quite a lot from time to time.

Also when you shoot wildlife you never know what you will get so one often start photographing a distant animal in not ideal light, then at a later time (or date, maybe days or weeks, or months later), you get better compositions/lighting/get closer.


Any blurred/out of focus/badly exposed shots get deleted, often in camera.
 
I started off with 4 as I just don't really see the point in keeping a photo I don't like. As I have learned how to use my DSLR and got over the initial novelty (if you know what I mean) I only take a photo if I think it has potential rather than random firing. That has led me onto being 3 now.

However, when I shoot sports I am still 4 as, although this may sound a poor excuse, sometimes my AF on my 55-250mm isn't quite quick enough to keep up with a game of rugby.
 
I reject in lightroom, I'm yet to get a point with disk space where I purge those though. Joys of having 7tb :D
 
3 - i keep nearly all my photos both the unedited and edited once but i do delete the odd photo because it a rubbish shot (blurr, out of focus, something got it in shot that shouldn't be their etc) or got another shot of the same photo but one that is better. my one problem is i shoot primary in raw so im startin to run out of space on my mini mac from storing raw and psd files.
 
I think I probably qualify for 2. Out of every 100 photos ill probably delete anywhere between 70 and 90% of them. In fact, for the first time a couple of weeks ago I came back and deleted every single one.

And it's not because I'm bad, I just don't see the point in keeping photos that are just 'ok'.
 
mangobreeder said:
Can we have a poll please
1. I keep every single photo regardless
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You need to do a cost/benefit/risk analysis.

Deleting photos saves money. For me, I need to delete 360 raw images to save a quid;s worth of storage. It is a low rate of return for the effort.

Deleting photos brings risk. Risk that you delete something that you later want for some reason or purpose that didn't exist at first.

For me, my storage is cheap, I am time-poor and don't like the risk.

If you are time rich, and are limited to expensive internal storage, you might reach a different conclusion.

Andrew
 
I think it's not an issue of space, but organisation, and separating the dross from th good stuff. I'm willing to bet most people have one cat in light room and all their photos are kept in there. But I guess that's where proper tagging/ratings come into play
 
My other half takes 900 photos in one day, on a day out, and keeps probably half isn't that the benefits of Compact Flash, SD cards and 3TB hard drives?
 
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