For those of you who shoot in RAW and take "x" amount of practice pics per day of the same scene/subject, what do you do with all the excess ones once you've decided on your desired upload, do you bother keeping them? I guess it's worth keeping the original to refer back to for any editing or certain crops but keeping them all seem pointless to me and eating up disk space, fast.
I've been clearing up my collection this afternoon, just wondered....
Trash em! I shoot hundreds some days and try to review them, deleting the worst, before transferring to my laptop. Just went through and cleared 20GB from the files on my comp. Still have a backlog to review, DSLR, iPhone and PS. I'm starting to play with the HD video on my Canon 7D, looking at a pair of TB or larger external drives. I don't see a need for holding onto images I wasn't satisfied with initially.
I'm getting more and more cruel with killing my darlings - I do save RAWs of the images I like best, because I know my editing skills can become better over time and may want to go back and re-edit a photo... but I delete a majority of photos I take - like Robert said, why keep a photo if you're not happy with it? I try, nowadays, to only keep the very best one, otherwise I'll fill my hard drive at an even faster rate than I am already doing *grin*
I keep the RAW files for the better pictures as I consider them my negatives. I used to keep them all, but I stopped because they take too much memory.
Practice shooting is good untill you get the correct exposure for the subject.....I keep all of them for some time untill I choose the best of them....and I always keep a RAW/UN/UNEDITED COPY of the image i choose....RAW files are very large files compared to jpegs....they will eat up you diskspace and make you PC run slow....
I usually keep everything, but yeah with RAW files now coming in at 20MB a pop, and my 365 folder standing at 34.9GB, I've been thinking of having a more stringent approach to what I keep/chuck.
I back up my raw files at the same time as they get downloaded to my computer, on an external backup. The backups never get deleted - when the drive is full, it gets switched out for a new one. But the others, once I've lived with them for a few days, do get culled down to only the ones I'm going to use. All my edited shots get copied to two external drives, and remain on my computer for only a year, so there is nothing on my computer over one year old unless I have a specific need for it there. I also make archival DVD backups, which I keep in another location, one set of raw files from when I first download, and one set of raw plus edited files from when I'm done post processing.
I have only started in RAW but still don't know what ot do with them so I delete all the no good images, RAW and jpg and if I want it again I just go and reshoot ... but then I'm only an amateur so it doesn't bother me.
I am zealous with my cuts... I do a quick once through on the day of the shoot and delete everything I don't love... than I do another once a month or so...
Adams(that slightly famous guy) said 12 photos a year is a good year... I am luck if I want to keep 5 or 6 from the year!
I wrote a little java app to clean up my raws. I take too many photos for me to even consider going back to mess with old raws after the first pass. I run my app once every few months which is about 30gigs every two months for raws alone.
I create a daily folder to put photos in so it was a real pain in the ass to go back through all of the folders individually. My app starts at the top level and recursively goes through all of the children folders and cleans them up. It also gives count and size statistics. If anyone thinks they would find it useful let me know and I'll see if I can get it to you.
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Adams(that slightly famous guy) said 12 photos a year is a good year... I am luck if I want to keep 5 or 6 from the year!
I create a daily folder to put photos in so it was a real pain in the ass to go back through all of the folders individually. My app starts at the top level and recursively goes through all of the children folders and cleans them up. It also gives count and size statistics. If anyone thinks they would find it useful let me know and I'll see if I can get it to you.
@icywarm you're far too ruthless on your self
@mrjacob i need to be more like you, organised! Using lightroom , i've got all sorts of folders going on right about now.