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After downloading my shots I am normally quite ruthless, and delete most things which don't meet my expectations.

Though for once I am glad that I kept a shot taken earlier in the year, that seemed without merit. A shot that I'd taken only as a sort of sketch for a possible future video project. It must have fallen through my usual slash and burn approach, and it remained on my drive.

A couple of weeks back, I was commissioned to shoot a mountain biking feature, on a classic route in our area. One thing he customer said would be great was a a shot that showed the whole route.

This would have entailed a 4 hour walk if I hadn't already got it.

Oh, and it now graces a double page spread. :)

Have you ever binned a shot that you've later regretted?
 
Nope, but had a similar experience.

A rider lost her horse suddenly and emailed me asking if I had any of her. Turned out I had a few which I didn't think were good enough to put on the site but she was delighted :)
 
Never delete anything EVER (apart from obvious 'fails' - like exposure errors and accidental releases).

You never know...
 
Arkady said:
Never delete anything EVER (apart from obvious 'fails' - like exposure errors and accidental releases).

You never know...
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Agreed. I only delete totally obvious shi*e. Just buy bigger hard drives. Prices are coming down all the time now...
 
My 500th post. Will give myself a :clap:

Has only taken me just shy of 3 years. I'm a bit sloooow.
 
I'm a complete hoarder by nature and never delete anything. I could perhaps do with learning the skill of selective delete LOL!
 
I never ever delete a single image. Even those stupid ones which you take with the lens cap on (doesn't that happen to everyone?)
 
A terrible photograph in a photographer's eyes will potentially be a wonderful photograph in Joe the Plumber's eyes (cue McCain jokes :p). They don't see the technicalities, the flaws in composition, the bit of spec of something in an irritating place.

Oh, the burden of being a photographer :p
 
aligibbs said:
I never ever delete a single image. Even those stupid ones which you take with the lens cap on (doesn't that happen to everyone?)
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No, but those stupid exposures where it was really bright and you go inside and forget to change the settings and it's pitch black.

I delete the fluff - overexposed/underexposed/blurry/severely out of focus/etc
 
dod said:
Nope, but had a similar experience.

A rider lost her horse suddenly and emailed me asking if I had any of her. Turned out I had a few which I didn't think were good enough to put on the site but she was delighted :)
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exactly the same with me last week! :thumbs:
 
I had a band promo shoot yesterday, they picked 5 shots that I would have binned.

If it is not plain outright salvageable, bin it, otherwise keep it.
 
I took some photos of my brother and his new fiance, they liked all the photos but their favourite is out of focus. I also took some pictures at a local sprint day and one guy asked if I had any pictures of his car. I only had 3 as I was there to take pictures of a friend going round the track but he was chuffed to bits with them, even though they weren't the best :thinking:

Non photographer types are easily pleased it seems. I dont delete a thing now, one day my PP skills might be able to save them :lol:
 
I delete almost half the stuff I capture but then I do shoot on continuous and take at least 2 or 3 of the same subject. I find it works for me as a beginner or if shooting slow shutter speeds so the initial button press doesn't add unnecessary blur.

I think if I was shooting commercially I'd keep everything until the customer had chosen what they wanted.
 
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