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 02/17/2007 10:07:12 AM · #1
These days I am deleting more photographs than I am taking. I have about ten thousand photographs on my PC, and no time for editting.
I hope, if I get rid of the junk first, the job will be easier.
Does everybody does it?
 02/17/2007 10:12:38 AM · #2
I think all photographers go through a similar learning curve. First you keep everything and you shoot tons everytime you go out. After a while you will shoot less, but as your eye develops you will like less and keep almost nothing. Finally you will begin to get out of your camera what you see in your mind as your skills grow and will shoot less and keep most.

That said - I have 2 external hard drives that are full of shots I may or may not ever get around to processing. Day to day I pull out the shots I most want to work on and archive the rest. I'm terrible about NOT deleting anything.
02/17/2007 11:05:47 AM · #3
Originally posted by idnic:
I'm terrible about NOT deleting anything.


Absolutely agree! Not only is there the external drive so I can back up my HD daily, but there are the cases of CD's with pictures. I refuse to throw any away. I just might delete it off the camera if it's not what I wanted, but once it makes it to the computer, it's here forever!

Beth
 02/23/2007 02:38:05 AM · #4
Originally posted by eac:
Originally posted by idnic:
I'm terrible about NOT deleting anything.


Absolutely agree! Not only is there the external drive so I can back up my HD daily, but there are the cases of CD's with pictures. I refuse to throw any away. I just might delete it off the camera if it's not what I wanted, but once it makes it to the computer, it's here forever!

Beth

How do you decide then which ones to edit?
 02/23/2007 02:50:47 AM · #5
Oh no... save them all!
A couple years from now, on a rainy day, bored with what you have presently, go back and rummage around, blow the dust off them, and process them with the skills acquired since taking them, and wow yourself.

Well, maybe not save them ALL.
;)

edit to add:
I started saving pics in folders by date and a word or two, like:
022207 Rainstorm. That folder goes into the 2007 folder. When I open the folder, I can see 02(Feb)27(date)07(year) and Rainstorm and am jogged as to the pics of that day. Then, with Irfanview, I can double click on say the first file to open the image, hit enter to full-screen it, then cursor right (or spacebar) to go to next pic. If I find one I need to dump, hit delete on keyboard, and it advances to next pic (user-setting in irfanview), and so on.
It's a great way to store, view and catalog in my opinion.

Message edited by author 2007-02-23 03:04:36.
 02/23/2007 03:36:39 AM · #6
Originally posted by Brad:

I started saving pics in folders by date and a word or two, like:
022207 Rainstorm. That folder goes into the 2007 folder. When I open the folder, I can see 02(Feb)27(date)07(year) and Rainstorm and am jogged as to the pics of that day. Then, with Irfanview, I can double click on say the first file to open the image, hit enter to full-screen it, then cursor right (or spacebar) to go to next pic. If I find one I need to dump, hit delete on keyboard, and it advances to next pic (user-setting in irfanview), and so on.
It's a great way to store, view and catalog in my opinion.


Im the same with the file dates but I go backwards i.e

2007-12-31 That way they dont need to be in 2007 folders as it will always put the year first, & infranview is an awsome free program
 02/23/2007 07:26:57 AM · #7
Originally posted by Shadowi6:
2007-12-31 That way they dont need to be in 2007 folders as it will always put the year first, & infranview is an awsome free program


I have Nikon Transfer create similar folders, however I still save them in main folders labeled by year, just to keep my image drives organized a bit cleaner.

Message edited by author 2007-02-23 07:27:14.
 02/23/2007 08:58:24 AM · #8
Originally posted by kbhatia1967:
Originally posted by eac:
Originally posted by idnic:
I'm terrible about NOT deleting anything.


Absolutely agree! Not only is there the external drive so I can back up my HD daily, but there are the cases of CD's with pictures. I refuse to throw any away. I just might delete it off the camera if it's not what I wanted, but once it makes it to the computer, it's here forever!

Beth

How do you decide then which ones to edit?


For me, when I'm viewing them after downloading and looking for something in particular, those will be editted. I can always go back and edit later. Just works for me... :)
 02/23/2007 10:11:53 AM · #9
slow down and quit taking so many.....think about what you are doing longer
 02/23/2007 10:18:55 AM · #10
i delete way more than i save
 02/25/2007 03:50:45 AM · #11
Originally posted by David Ey:
slow down and quit taking so many.....think about what you are doing longer

Yes. That would be a good idea.
But if I am on a day trip to a tourist place (say Tajmahal), I am tempted to take some 600 shots, only to find that about 75% are not worth a second look, and I normally delete them.
From the rest 150, I edit about 50 or so.
But really do not know what to do about the rest 100 or so?
 02/25/2007 10:37:06 AM · #12
That sounded a bit harsh of me but rushing thru to the next shot is one of my problems too. I am trying to slow down and reduce the amount of processing....which is basically cropping with my skills....and consider why I am taking the shot in the first place.
As far as the original question, it costs virtually nothing to keep them all.
 02/25/2007 10:44:28 AM · #13
Originally posted by David Ey:
That sounded a bit harsh of me but rushing thru to the next shot is one of my problems too. I am trying to slow down and reduce the amount of processing....which is basically cropping with my skills....and consider why I am taking the shot in the first place.
As far as the original question, it costs virtually nothing to keep them all.


This is similar to how I feel. When I am out, I try not to think about how I can fix this photo during editting, but rather how can I take the picture, perhaps a second time to capture what I wanted. And since I left film so many years ago, it does enable me to take 5 or 6 or 20 photos if I want or need to.

Beth
 02/26/2007 04:41:56 AM · #14
Originally posted by David Ey:
That sounded a bit harsh of me but rushing thru to the next shot is one of my problems too. I am trying to slow down and reduce the amount of processing....which is basically cropping with my skills....and consider why I am taking the shot in the first place.
As far as the original question, it costs virtually nothing to keep them all.

It costs me the memory in the harddisk. The speed gets slow, when all the partitions are full to their capacity.
BTW, how many photographs do you take on a single day, especially when you visit a tourist place? or an exotic garden?? or a zoo???

Message edited by author 2007-02-26 04:50:46.
 02/26/2007 05:55:39 AM · #15
Originally posted by kbhatia1967:
Originally posted by David Ey:
That sounded a bit harsh of me but rushing thru to the next shot is one of my problems too. I am trying to slow down and reduce the amount of processing....which is basically cropping with my skills....and consider why I am taking the shot in the first place.
As far as the original question, it costs virtually nothing to keep them all.

It costs me the memory in the harddisk. The speed gets slow, when all the partitions are full to their capacity.
BTW, how many photographs do you take on a single day, especially when you visit a tourist place? or an exotic garden?? or a zoo???


Between 5 and 1000.

I think that I exhausted myself more in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, than anywhere else in the world - a truly magical place and about as photogenic an area as can be found.

I try to delete the fuzzy and unuseable images in-camera - it is something to do on the journey home. I assume that pretty much every other image could have a use, and so I hoard them! After paring down and getting used to my best images for, say, an album, it is sometimes fun to look through the second rank for a change of view.
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