MJPerini

I do save everything I shoot, but I am a very deliberate shooter , I was a professional commercial Photographer in NYC for many years where most of what I shot was 8x10, 4x5" or Hasselblad. I now shoot FF Digital but shoot far less than almost anyone I know. I do take grab shots like everyone else because there are times when it is good practice to 'capture first, decide later' but I don't do a lot of it.
I keep them because misses can also be instructive.

vg Loc: Kansas City area

A shed on the property will not save your pictures from the weather. Save them on a cloud service.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Not sure I'd trust an AI program to keyword my images. For one thing I want the names of people in the image to appear in the keyword list for that image. And I've seen too many humorous results when AI tries to identify something. That means that all the keywords generated by AI would have to be checked on an individual basis. And if you have to do that, you might just as well do your own keywording.

Having said that, I will admit that I have not tried Excire. There exists a nonzero possibility that it will do better than I expect.

Also, it is likely that it will come up with keywords you wouldn't have thought of. (That could be good or bad).

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Nice! Ive got a few thousand myself, but the scotch might cause some errors in post processing 😀

Physlab Loc: Portland, OR

You also have the option to keyword on your own. The AI keyword option breaks the photos down into something close to 550 different areas. I have several hundred thousand images and I find it extremely useful to locate similar or duplicate images.

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jotaele

I am with you Curmudgeon, I have prints from the 70s, slides (about 20k) from the 80s and 90s and more than 170k digital pictures stored in hard drives and the cloud. I have not looked at the slides in years, but I hope, against all hope, that I will digitize them one day. The digital pictures keep going up all the time with my frequent travels and I only get rid of the really bad ones, almost duplicates, etc. Most of them I have never seen, but again, I hope to get to them one day.
Cheers.

Amadeus Loc: New York

I have photos from the late 60’s, slides. Recently scanned 4,000 of them. Stopped shooting in the 90’s. Started again in early 2000’s. Have about 100,000 pics. Prob 75% should be deleted but I can’t.

TomHackett Loc: Kingston, New York

I mostly saved all my photos and negatives from about age 6 to 18. About that time, I added color transparencies (slides) to my repertoire. I have most of them, to about age 50. Meanwhile, at about age 20, I got serious about b&w negatives and darkroom work. I carefully preserved these and annotated the proof sheets. Unfortunately, after college I began moving around a bit and stored most of these (along with my baseball cards and other "valuables") in my parents' attic. Just by magic, by the time I had a more permanent home, they had all disappeared (including the baseball cards). Fortunately, I still have a couple of 8.5" x 11" prints of the best photos.

Now, since I first started shooting digital, I catalog everything in Lightroom Classic. Every quarter or so I cull out everything rated ** or lower. This leaves me with "only" 95k images. With my quarterly clean-up, I have moved most of those to offline storage (2 copies each). I keyword enough so I can usually find what I'm looking for.

I don't claim that any of this represents a "best practice," but it seems like a good compromise between spending time managing my inventory and going out and shooting more (and enjoying other aspects of life).

ThreeCee Loc: Washington, DC

I edit pix and save the keepers in CR, Tiff and jpeg. Then I make albums based on date and event and post the Jpegs. It is very time consuming. The worst is that when I close my eyes no one will really care about what I captured.

Bill_de Loc: US

Or, Keep only the best and delete the rest.



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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

"Best" is relative.....

Others that are not best are still memories.

delder Loc: Maryland

Yes.
I WILL delete unusable/accidentally shots.

Amadeus Loc: New York

So will I. It’s the ones that you will never process or work on, but don’t have the heart to delete. There’s a lot of those.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

So how often do you review those thousands that you took 4 years ago to do an analysis of each one?

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