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Ok guys. Imagine the scenario. You are a noob (me).

You take a day to e.g. the zoo. You take your DSLR & snap away happily. You take (for arguments sake) 200 pictures. However...

You get home & you have 8 good ones.

Now...

Do you keep the 200 pictures & waste HDD space? Or do you bin the rubbish ones, keep & process the 8 good ones & say "these 8 pics are of my day out at the zoo". :thinking:
 
I keep most. I just delete anything that's out of focus, has motion blur, chopped off heads, or is a picture of the inside of my bag (or the ground/something equally as ridiculous). But a lot of those will get deleted straight off the camera
 
I delete the really awful ones. I edit the ones I really like and put them in a sub folder.
 
I am still learning, and keeping most as RAW files in a folder, buried deep in the PC for when I have mastered PS and can correct them!
 
I keep everything, not sure why...............perhaps OOF, under/over exposed etc will make a comeback.
 
I usually delete straight from camera; the ones that are there when I get home usually stays.

This is partly psychological; if I have a higher ratio of "good" pictures when I do the import I feel better; vs having to see a lot of bad ones and digging out the good ones. :)
 
gnom said:
I usually delete straight from camera; the ones that are there when I get home usually stays.

This is partly psychological; if I have a higher ratio of "good" pictures when I do the import I feel better; vs having to see a lot of bad ones and digging out the good ones. :)
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This. Plus, I spend a lot of time over a shot and have a very high keeper rate even from the outset. Just because one has digital doesn't mean you can't still put thought into a shot!
 
i delete the obviously really crap ones but if the others are of interest to whoever i was with when i took them then i'll just put them on facebook or something. even pics we dont like ie slightly OOF or soft etc are still loads better than the noisy drunken phonecam smears most people put on there :lol:
 
I keep mostly everything, get home and trudge through. If it's of a day out or holiday or something, I keep everything as JPEGs. I take the good ones and process them and keep those as raws for portfolio.

if it's a shoot I delete anything that isn't even worth processing.
 
I keep everything, just as I used to keep all my prints pre digital, I finally allowed myself to shred my OOF dodgy prints maybe one day I will delete my bad digital shots.
 
Thank you so much guys. Those few answers have helped me out loads already :)
 
Depends if you want a 'record' of your day?

even poor photos evoke a memory of what you wanted to shoot.

After a cull during the day for the really bad ones, I now copy to disc and store the days shoot, and keep the good ones in a folder on the pc for faster use and uploading. That way I still have a backup of all photos in case of a crash.
 
i keep the ones that capture memories even if they are a little soft or not composed correctly but deleted everything else.

if your pictures at the zoo tell a story then keep them, if they are a few duff shots of animals through a fence that came out wrong then i'd probably delete them... at 25mb an image in my case, i can't afford to keep everything.
 
i generally keep what i get unles i delete them off the camera and then put the good ones/edited in a seperate folder - though i will have to have a sort out soon as iv almost filled up my 500gb external hard drive aswel as my pc aha
 
I've started deleting in camera and wish I hadn't got into the habit as recently after a whole day out with my camera I've returned home with b****r all !!
 
I pretty much keep everything now as I found that going back some months later shots I'd discounted turned out to be interesting for reasons other than what I was aiming for at the time.
 
I dump everything other than the pictures I keep, no point in wasting HD space.
 
I remove only the obviously bad pics from camera (and reshoot), then the rest is sorted through right after import. Shooting in RAW, those 20+ MB pics add up..

Pretty heavy-handed with removing pics though, and having a 27" screen I have to try and remember that they will almost never again be viewed at that size.

A fuzzy pic that captures a moment is better than nothing.. But 18 fuzzies of the same moment are just useless.
 
I keep most, if not all of my pics on an external HDD, the reason is pretty simple. I'm not that good at photoshop, but obviously get better as time goes by. I'll show you an example of why I always keep my shots....

This was one of my first shoots. I'd had my camera just over a month.
jen1.jpg
(edited cause links being dodgy for some ***)

This is what I did to it 6 months later (which isn't much! But I would've chucked the first one back then)
jen2wm.jpg
 
Always bin the rubbish ones, following McLean's rule of turds, if it's crap it's crap, delete it.

A few years ago when digital photography first took off, I used to keep 'average' and some bad images, hoping I could make them good in processing, I wasted many an hour until I realised the futility of it.
 
They are the same pic, - the first one I uploaded the wrong one at first, but then changed it (deleted first PB upload, renamed the second upload to have the same name). For a while it showed the old picture for about 5 mins but it's showing the newer upload (same pic but unproicessed and pic 2) for me since. SHould be the same for everyone else...
 
MagicMynx said:
I keep most, if not all of my pics on an external HDD, the reason is pretty simple. I'm not that good at photoshop, but obviously get better as time goes by. I'll show you an example of why I always keep my shots....

This was one of my first shoots. I'd had my camera just over a month.
DSC01180.jpg


This is what I did to it 6 months later (which isn't much! But I would've chucked the first one back then)
jen2wm.jpg
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WOW how did you turn her in the photo not seen that done before:thinking:
 
RobC said:
I've started deleting in camera and wish I hadn't got into the habit as recently after a whole day out with my camera I've returned home with b****r all !!
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The next stage, for me, is to stop using the review screen altogether. I've turned off auto review already, but it's quite hard to resist pressing the review button after every few shots. I dunno, I just like the way it was done in the film days, you had to put it to chance and skill.
 
trencheel303 said:
The next stage, for me, is to stop using the review screen altogether.
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I never used auto-review, on either compact or DSLR; and very rarely do I review the pictures straight after I've taken them. So my LCD is off most of the time.

Having said that, there are some good (and necessary) usages for the LCD; for me they are

1) Check the histogram etc if unsure about exposure.
2) Delete images.
3) Record video.
 
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