What a load of dross!

King4aDay · 7 Jan 2014 at 17:00

Just spent today going through five years worth of Lightroom catalogues. I'm not even a prolific shooter and was only roughly sorting files but I just cleared out 120gb of out of focus or completely misexposed shots that have been malingering for years. I daren't start culling on artistic grounds or I'll have nothing left

Anyone else completely useless at quality controlling on import?

PU7E · 7 Jan 2014 at 17:10

I'm guilty of clicking import all then clearing up later

King4aDay · 7 Jan 2014 at 17:24

Same, except my 'later' seems to be once every half-decade

dannyjo22 · 7 Jan 2014 at 18:05

I import all, then before I do any processing whip through them hitting X to reject, then mass delete. I have always been pretty ruthless with that or similar photo's. If I didn't do that I'd put the processing off for months.

ElDude · 7 Jan 2014 at 18:17

I import all, then delete as I'm choosing which I like. If it's a decent shot but I prefer another, I'll still keep it, but if it does nothing for me or is borked in some way, I'll purge then. I've still got a few from before I started doing that when I backed up after import. A LOT are utter pap

Zogger · 7 Jan 2014 at 20:21

have been doing the same the last couple of days, nearly 4 years worth in lightroom and about 5% of the way through so far... I think this is the first time I'm making a new years resolution..

That's not to mention tagging...

PistolPete · 7 Jan 2014 at 20:49

I import all then initially go through and X any I wont even entertain looking at and delete.
Then I go through again and I mark in 1 colour the ones I want to keep & process and another colour the ones I might want to process; any not coloured at the end get removed from the catalogue (but not deleted just in case)
I then process the keepers and if I have time or want more I process the maybes.

Storage is cheap enough these days but cull the useless stuff as it's just wasting space.

The_Abyss · 7 Jan 2014 at 22:44

I keep way too much, but I'm always hooked on saving a good deal of 'maybe' images in the hope that technology will one day evolve to the point where they'll become decent images.

It won't, of course, so my purge of images takes several steps of acceptance before action.