steve49 wrote:
What does everyone do when it comes to thinning out the photos that they shoot?
Do you save everything cause storage is cheap or
do you delete photos for good once you have sorted the " keepers"?
It is so easy to build a huge library with the ease of shooting digitally and I guess I wonder
how often I will revisit old material.
I travel a lot and generally sort by trip but do have a hard time picking what to save and what to chop.
Lately I find myself keeping the best and deleting the rest...
Anyone else wrestle with this?
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In film days, I cut 35mm negs in strips of six and put each roll into a Negafile glassine, AFTER first making a contact sheet on 8x10 paper. I labeled the contact sheet the same as the negatives, so I could file them separately. Year/Month/Subject/Roll # of #
Now, I first load my originals into a file folder structure I can access with any application.
Year folder (contains the .lrcat Lightroom catalog file)
Month folders (in the year folder)
Event/Job/Subject Name (in the month folders)
In the Event folder, I'll have some of these:
Raw Images
Camera JPEGs (if captured)
Intermediate TIFFs
Print JPEGs
Print TIFFs
Proof JPEGs
[Other] JPEGs
Then I "import" them "in place" into Lightroom, evaluate in full screen, give them star ratings, add metadata where warranted, and delete the no-stars. Then I process the five star images. Next, I process four star images, three star images, and take a longer look at the one and two star images. By that time, I usually have what I need. I export to one or more of the folders created earlier, depending on the need.
At the end of the year, I just back up the year folder to an external drive, and start a new structure and a new Lightroom Catalog! If I need to go back to an old event, I just plug in the right drive, switch catalogs, do what I need to do (often just work on a single image or two), then switch back to my current catalog and drive.
Yes, of course I back up everything in several places...