After a day of shooting I import to my PC. I delete the obvious rubbish in a first-pass prior to processing. Typically only around 10% of the remainder are deemed worthy of careful processing and export to some other format for display, so yes, my hard-drives are full of 'wasted' bytes. Those that are deemed worthy of export find their way to dpreview or facebook typically. When viewing at home I either do that on my PC or on my TV.
I do. I have a 16x20 landscape shot with a 12MP Canon S100 P&S, looks great. This is the print that tells me I don’t need more MP. And have several prints of photos I liked that I took over the years. I also print family photos, 4x6 and 8x10 and keep them around the house, and give them to our families.
I only format the card in camera, bedore starting a shoot not after transfer to computer.
Every month I have a folder, and during the month I constantly select, delete and edit raw’s after the month end I export what’s left selected and edited. I keep the raw’s and exported jpegs as separate libraries. I delete A LOT, usually I keep from 80-200 shots a month. Even from vacations and photo trips, I don’t keep more than 200-300 images. After 25 years of shooting, my library is about 350GB. I only started to shoot raw in 2010, the rest are jpegs from cameras or scanned film.
All that matter is that I like the photo and consider it to be good enough to be printed and looked at it every time I run around the house. Sure I do exchange them with new ones from time to time, but I have a few that hold their place 10-15 years.
usually
Not until the PC copies have been backed up
about 100,000
I use Lr to tag my images with keywords, making it simple to pull them up based on filter criteria
when browsing the archives I usually find images which are too similar to others in a set and I choose the best and delete the rest. It's an ongoing process.
Wall space. I only have 2 large polycarbonate prints on the wall and they were chosen because of the emotive impact they have on my wife and me. After 2 years of hanging, my wife still points at one of them and says "I love that image"
I recently printed a 72" wide panorama. I have multiple copies of the images that matter to me which are mainly photos of my family and friends . Firstly there is no way that every images is perfect , harsh culling of those images that do not measure up will whittle down the numbers rapidly. Secondly alas beyond perhaps family photos of dearly departed loved ones which may resonate with the next generation basically no one cares about your images
Speak for yourself.I print large quite often and rotate them as my mansion is a bit short on wall space
The somewhat obsessive retention of what sounds like every image they ever take by some forum members is a tad OTT
Jim Stirling
Same story here; some 10-12 yes ago I was listened to a Photography lecture and the key thing that I still remember from one of the photographers was to print a dozen of your favorite pictures large, then try and take a dozen better photos the next year to replace them. Right now I am working on replacing 3 in my front room. These will be scenery portraits of my kids. After that I might do up a panorama in my office (as I don’t have one yet).
Yep, got about 30 on our walls, mostly 11x18 (cm) and A4 prints.
Sometimes. More often I leave them on the card and unload once a month, except on holidays or other locations I have not yet been. Then I copy the data every evening on several harddisks.
Nope, I leave them on the cards until I get home.
Yes, that is indeed a problem. I have way too many shots from the same thing, location etc., most of them will of course never be printed. This will get better once I manage to advance my book projects ...
No, the truly bad stuff gets thrown away before its stored in the final folders, the rest I keep.
Hmmm, what I consider to be the best recent images. But I do not change them very often ...
On my walls?
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