skywalkerbeth
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Hi everyone
What do you do with photos you've culled? Especially when you find your hard drive free space dwindling?
When I am going through photos I've taken, the first thing I do is sort them. The truly bad ones get deleted immediately - out of focus, etc. Then of the lot that is left, I first sort into two folders - "don't bother" and "keepers". I keep culling until I'm down to a manageable "keepers" folder (knowing that NO ONE, including me.. will look at every single one of my photos if I put them online).
It's not that ALL of the "don't bother" folders are bad - it's just that they didn't make the final cut. Will I ever look at them again? No idea. So far, I have not. Will I later think "hey, these were actually good enough to see the light of day"? No idea since I rarely have time to go back through.
What do you do? Do you save even the also-rans, or do you delete them immediately so that you aren't wasting time AND SPACE later, wondering what to do with them? This wasn't an issue for a long time but I'm finally nearing the end of the space on my 100 gig hard drive. (not all photos obviously).
What do you do with photos you've culled? Especially when you find your hard drive free space dwindling?
When I am going through photos I've taken, the first thing I do is sort them. The truly bad ones get deleted immediately - out of focus, etc. Then of the lot that is left, I first sort into two folders - "don't bother" and "keepers". I keep culling until I'm down to a manageable "keepers" folder (knowing that NO ONE, including me.. will look at every single one of my photos if I put them online).
It's not that ALL of the "don't bother" folders are bad - it's just that they didn't make the final cut. Will I ever look at them again? No idea. So far, I have not. Will I later think "hey, these were actually good enough to see the light of day"? No idea since I rarely have time to go back through.
What do you do? Do you save even the also-rans, or do you delete them immediately so that you aren't wasting time AND SPACE later, wondering what to do with them? This wasn't an issue for a long time but I'm finally nearing the end of the space on my 100 gig hard drive. (not all photos obviously).