Nickaroo wrote:
Yeah, after posting that I thought about going back and editing my reply. I say this because if I look at how many shots that I take, and I just did this for 2 months worth of shooting, I have probably 1 out of 45 that I have edited and put in my edited photo folder for that month. One folder only has 11 files in it and this month I would say that, even though I have shot more, I'm on track for a much lower keeper count, like 1-2. Now, I do backups of my cards, 3, and I even save my cards without clearing them. That may seem strange but I will not sit there and go through 1,000 shots to find "The One" that I need to show someone. I know where everything is at. And Paul, you are right, people are stupid. I have probably kicked keepers out at one time or another just due to the fact that I happen to be a Minimalist. I'm okay with that because I will be damned if I become one of those people that bombard someone with a personal or Commercial Website to show people the work that they have done, and the person looks at the Portfolio and by the time they get home their head is spinning like they just got done playing one of our frats. drinking parties that we did every weekend at U of M.. I don't know if this is a good rule to go by, but I believe that you have one collection on your Website, let's call it Flowers, I would put and do put 10 pics at the most in it. Because I feel that you put your starters out and make a good but hard drive down the Fairway and then show them how well you hit that 2nd. shot, then your sand shot or chip shot, and maybe you didn't quite connect in your terms so you have to whip out that 150 yard 7-iron, then throw a couple of good putts and your done. You have now made it easier on everyones eyes by not sifting through garbage. I have found that in most instances that it is better to hold back a little and if you feel like it later on, then by all means, go back to that Flowers Collection and yank 1-2 out and maybe put a sub in. If you can't get your quality across with 9-11 shots in any Genre, then what makes you think that 30 of them will help. A person that cannot cull and sift to pick, is A) Stupid, B) Can't make up their minds, C) They just don't possess good judgement or have no faith in what they are doing. The Classiest Restaurants, I think we still have those, don't have a Weekend Menu that is more than 2 sides. I'am so Thankful Paul that you said what I have always believed, and YES There Are A Lot Of Stupids Out There.
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Although I agree in the less is more approach, using Flickr as the example misunderstands the purpose of Flickr. "Flowers" there are a collection (Flickr term - Album) of my flower images from now the roughly 15 years of digital shooting. It's not an attempt to present anything other than a convenient collection of images of the same general topic.
I'm not going to tell you how to manage your images and your storage, but your described process sends shivers up and down my spine. I aggressively cull my images, aggressively keyword and catalog in LR, and clear my camera cards for reuse. I can find any image that has been properly processed going back to the 80s, but it's still a WIP effort to complete the keyword and catalog work on older film scans and digital work prior to about 2014 when I started using Lightroom.
I don't worry about what I might have deleted. I don't have that level of attachment to any individual image. Every shutter is intended to be pure gold, but life doesn't work that way. Rather, I try to make every frame as good as possible and I pick out whatever seems promising when I get home and can consider the images in comparison to each other using a large calibrated display.