Do you have a hard time deleting photos?

[Conner41]

Are there others out there, just like me who have trouble deleting photos? I swear I've become a pack rat of photos!

"Hi my name is Conner, and I'm a photo pack rat"!!! :lmao:

 

[bluetibby1]

Yes I hbe an extremely hard tim deleting photos. If it has anything my my daughter or wife or cars...or anything, it says haha. I try to delete the horrible ones like bad focus and such. But I'm with ya Conner.

 

[e.rose]

I don't delete things often. Unless they're SO overexposed they're white... or so underexposed they're black. Other candidates for deletion include: extreme blur or camera shake.

Other than that, they may never see the light of *day*... but I don't *delete* them.

What I have issues with is deciding on what is good enough to *process*. But I find that after I've made the "final cut" and selected the photos I'm going to process... that number STILL gets cut down because the longer I sit to process them, the more tired of editing the set I get, so I have an easier time getting rid of ones I was on the fence about before, just so I dont have to edit them.

 

[Conner41]

Good to know I'm not the only one!!

 

[12sndsgood]

im the same way i will pretty much only delete the really horrible ones. really bad focus blurry uderexposed etc.

i always go thru mine. make a "to be edited" folder, and an " edited" folder and then go from there. and im even so bad is i copy the photo from the "main" folder to the "to be edited" folder so now i have a copy lol

 

[K8-90]

I don't delete things often. Unless they're SO overexposed they're white... or so underexposed they're black. Other candidates for deletion include: extreme blur or camera shake.

Other than that, they may never see the light of *day*... but I don't *delete* them.

What I have issues with is deciding on what is good enough to *process*. But I find that after I've made the "final cut" and selected the photos I'm going to process... that number STILL gets cut down because the longer I sit to process them, the more tired of editing the set I get, so I have an easier time getting rid of ones I was on the fence about before, just so I dont have to edit them.

Same here... I've got several hard drives full of useless pics. Mostly because I'm too lazy to go through them and purge.

However... I have opened a folder of photos I've forgotten about or overlooked, and found some gems! And that just makes it harder to delete things :S

 

[Conner41]

I don't delete things often. Unless they're SO overexposed they're white... or so underexposed they're black. Other candidates for deletion include: extreme blur or camera shake.

Other than that, they may never see the light of *day*... but I don't *delete* them.

What I have issues with is deciding on what is good enough to *process*. But I find that after I've made the "final cut" and selected the photos I'm going to process... that number STILL gets cut down because the longer I sit to process them, the more tired of editing the set I get, so I have an easier time getting rid of ones I was on the fence about before, just so I dont have to edit them.

Same here... I've got several hard drives full of useless pics. Mostly because I'm too lazy to go through them and purge.

However... I have opened a folder of photos I've forgotten about or overlooked, and found some gems! And that just makes it harder to delete things :S

How long you been shooting?

 

[RauschPhotography]

I don't delete things often. Unless they're SO overexposed they're white... or so underexposed they're black. Other candidates for deletion include: extreme blur or camera shake.

Other than that, they may never see the light of *day*... but I don't *delete* them.

What I have issues with is deciding on what is good enough to *process*. But I find that after I've made the "final cut" and selected the photos I'm going to process... that number STILL gets cut down because the longer I sit to process them, the more tired of editing the set I get, so I have an easier time getting rid of ones I was on the fence about before, just so I dont have to edit them.

^^ Same here! I've got piles of pictures that no one else will probably ever see

 

[K8-90]

How long you been shooting?

I have "pictures" from 2003... Taken with a 2MP camera, lol. Not too many of those. But then I got into photography and photoshoping, upgraded my camera twice... And voila. A couple terabytes of photos

 

[DxAxN]

No... I leave them for a while but will go through them and decide if its worth keeping or not then delete

 

[lyonsroar]

^
I do the same. Generally I keep things around for a week or two editing at will. Anything I deem not worth editing gets tossed.

 

[Nod]

Anything that I don't think I can fix, gets deleted immeadiately ! I will save the others for awhile and go through them later with an open mind and delete a few more. I will take maybe 1500 to 2000 shots on a 10 day trip so a lot of them are repeats or different views or bracketing shots and out of that many I'll probably save 150/200.

 

[kundalini]

No, not anymore. Gut reaction works wonders.

 

[Karri]

I am with you too Conner! I may need to be part of support group. Thank goodness I shoot digital now or I would become overrun with pictures and end up on Hoarders...

 

[Dominantly]

I have a ton of old point and shoot shots from my early days traveling the world. I refuse to lose those, but am willing to weed through the keepers and less than ideal current day shots.