Do you delete photographs?

[Cogito]

One of the joys of digital photography is, of course, the ability to keep on pressing the shutter-release without worrying about taking too many photographs (as long as your memory card is up to the job).

However, that does mean that you (or at least I,) end up with alot of similar shots. This may be particularly true for me as I am fairly new to photography and still very much experimenting.

I am still working out the best way to organise and manage the myriad of images I take (and then, of course, there are the different versions after I have tried a load of different edits via Photoshop).

Up to now, I've kept everything. But the number of images is getting so large I am beginning to wonder if this is wise?

What do others do? Do you keep all, or only the best, and how do you organise your image collection?

Regards,

Neil

[mib2]

Re: Do you delete photographs?

Hi Neil

I was much the same with digital but I tend to be a little more careful than just shoot the card these days.

First process for me is to get rid of the total rubbish but I keep most stuff.

Dave R

[Barr1e]

Re: Do you delete photographs?

I have a habit of downloading the images first and then going through them over a period of a few days trimming the numbers - for instance yesterday I made a folder for pix I had taken whilst in London. This evening I have none of those left in the computer - they were not good enough. However, as cards are cheap I leave about 90% on those and if needed providing the memory is switched on in my brain I can refer back to the cards.

Regards. Barr1e

[Cogito]

Re: Do you delete photographs?

I seem to be heading for a similar system..... relatively few are ending up on my internal hard-drive, backed up on an external hard-drive. However, as memory on the external hard drive is so darned cheap, I am tending to keep most of my RAW files on that in an unprocessed state, even when the image doesn't make the cut for my PSE workflow and saving/cataloging.

Regards,

Neil

[DTD]

[jds9000]

Re: Do you delete photographs?

I normally bin the really blurred, and then have two 500gb 'mirrored' drives, just for photos. If their really 'primo' stuff that I really have to keep, then DVD's. I probably do keep too much, but hate to trash anything ... 'just in case', so now have almost 100,000 pictures on the drives !!

All video also goes on a 300gb drive, but is edited, and transfered to DVD and then removed as it takes up lots of space ...

Jay

[ryme-intrinseca]

Re: Do you delete photographs?

I take far too many photos, because it's easy when they're digital. I usually delete about 75% of them, but that still leaves me with dozens from each shoot. I have thousands of photos stored, but only about 150 that I'd consider entering in competitions, and only about 20 that I'm really proud of.

[Pol]

Re: Do you delete photographs?

Absolutely! Anything I have that I consider precious, or indeed worth saving, gets printed and archived in albums or an art portfolio.

The 'other stuff' is stored on portable hard drives and regularly 'filtered'. I used to keep a lot more of the digital files than I do now.

Pol