culling photos
Aug 9, 2018 10:16:07 #
I'm pretty much in CHG Canon's camp. I try to be really ruthless but not too quick about it. I find that I can be more effective at the process if I let a few days to even a couple of weeks pass before I make my second or even third pass at further reducing what I keep. My culls are deleted permanently.
Aug 9, 2018 10:30:44 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning ou... (show quote)
I permanently save all raw files. I then use Lightroom to pick the photos I want to save or edit and save and proceed to editing including using Photoshop for additional tweeks. Once I have finished all editing, I permanently save the PSD files of just those pictures I have edited or designated to save in LR. I then make JPGs of the files needed for electronic display or printing and permanently save those files. Once that is complete, I delete any duplicates of the same file type.
Aug 9, 2018 10:36:23 #
steve49 wrote:
...I try to reduce keepers from any given trip to under 100 images.
I don't have any set limits, but my skill does plenty of limiting. No problem keeping the number of keepers low.
Aug 9, 2018 11:22:53 #
steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning ou... (show quote)
Steve, I’m 72 and grew up during the ‘50s-‘60s era. As a young kid, I watched tv with lots of space hero shows, including “Flash Gordon”. Flash’s evil nemesis was known as “Ming The Merciless”. Whenever I move my household, I remember Ming and harden myself to be merciless about tossing out anything I haven’t looked at or used in years. Like old photos.
Aug 9, 2018 13:48:49 #
steve49
Loc: massachusetts
rjaywallace
im pretty close to you age wise…
this is good advice in photos and everything else.
I have moved toward doing an annual book with assorted family, trip, miscellaneous photos to mark the year.
It will be good someday for the kids to have something akin to the old photo albums stuck full of 3-5 photos to check out.
Something physical... you can take down and page through.
I guess the digital stuff will go off into space somewhere.
im pretty close to you age wise…
this is good advice in photos and everything else.
I have moved toward doing an annual book with assorted family, trip, miscellaneous photos to mark the year.
It will be good someday for the kids to have something akin to the old photo albums stuck full of 3-5 photos to check out.
Something physical... you can take down and page through.
I guess the digital stuff will go off into space somewhere.
Aug 9, 2018 14:04:31 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning ou... (show quote)
If I kept everything I'd have over a hundred thousand raw files on my hard drive by now at over 35mb per file. That would come to over 4 terabytes of disk space just for my photos Culling photos takes effort, but in the end it's necessary if you want to separate the crap from the keepers and keep yourself from going crazy.
Aug 9, 2018 14:14:26 #
steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning ou... (show quote)
I use Lightroom's annotating feature when going over newly imported images. 1 star gets deleted, 2 goes to Develop Module for future work, 3 for Instagram, 4 for posting on line, 5 for inclusion in portfolio.
Aug 9, 2018 14:16:09 #
Aug 9, 2018 14:18:22 #
Bultaco? Do you own/ride a Bultaco.We had a 250 Water cooled road racer back in the seventies here in New Zealand.
Aug 9, 2018 16:43:34 #
If its not worth hanging on your wall for your friends to see - delete it.
chances are post processing will not make it better (or you would have done so)
chances are post processing will not make it better (or you would have done so)
Aug 9, 2018 20:08:07 #
steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning ou... (show quote)
It is in a remote subparagraph of a subsection of an ancient but still effective collection of Murphy's Law. If you throw out a photograph today, your aunt's third husband's grandmother's great niece's former boyfriend's mother-in-law will need a copy (and will subpoena it) for her divorce proceeding, just because you were at the drunken reception filling in for the pro (Uncle Silas' grandnephew) who knew what was going to happen and deliberately dropped a 16 lb. double each hammer on his toe the morning of the wedding.
(Note: There quite a few sub-sub-paragraphs to this example, covering eventual familial relationships of this scenario. I suggest a locked room, no phone and at least one liter of single malt before beginning the search - and since the photograph Nas been subpoenaed, the photographer who discarded this out-of-focus insignificant should plan on considerable contempt-of-court charges for daring to throw this picture 32 years after it was taken - on a borrowed undramatic)!
Aug 9, 2018 20:48:21 #
It’s like drinking wine. If it doesn’t please you it’s not worth drinking. If an image doesn’t please me, it’s toast.
Ruthless. Storage may be cheap but DAM isn’t.
Ruthless. Storage may be cheap but DAM isn’t.
Aug 10, 2018 00:49:42 #
I considered what would happen to them after I'm done sucking air and the likelihood of going back through them. To start I instantly trash the bad ones. Personal photos of family and pets and other stuff I keep. Then I go through and pick out ones I'd like to share on social media. Once posted they're trashed except for the rare few I think are worthy to be printed and displayed, there are extremely few of those. Yes, storage is cheap but going through 100s if not 1000s of photos can be quite time consuming plus I know I'll be taking a bunch more.
Aug 10, 2018 06:23:56 #
Chaostrain wrote:
I considered what would happen to them after I'm done sucking air and the likelihood of going back through them... Yes, storage is cheap but going through 100s if not 1000s of photos can be quite time consuming plus I know I'll be taking a bunch more.
There's an app for that.
Get Lightroom (or some other program with Digital Asset Management). Put keywords on your photos. Enough keywords to describe the photo but not so many that it becomes cumbersome to think them up.
When you need a photo you don't have to go through thousands of photos. You search for the appropriate keywords and the photos appear in seconds.
If you're thinking about someone else going through them, make sure they have meaningful file names so there is at least some description of the photo in the name. Then standard computer searches will do the trick for those other people. Nobody wants to go through thousands of photos with the file names like DSC_4823.
Aug 10, 2018 07:06:33 #
steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning ou... (show quote)
I don't have yours or others attraction to saving pictures. Whenever we are at an event or at a location with family and friends I take a lot of pictures. My wife much more than I. I run them through Lr and Luminar do what needs to be done send them out through DropBox maybe a print or two for the ones I like the most and dump most of them. My wife, not so. June was our 50th wedding anniversary. We went to Paris for five days. When we returned our children took us to dinner. They chipped in and bought her a Sony; a7R111 camera and lens. She could not contain herself. Me; I got a case of 12-year-old Macallan's. Both happy campers. She keeps her pictures on different portable storage devices. Me I see no need to keep them. I do save pictures but not on the level that most do.
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