dmunsie
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Jun 5, 2012
- Messages
- 137
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- 12
- Location
- Texas
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
Edit-delete-repeat as needed. The past year I have been saving every shot as well, and spent the last couple of days deleting images I didn't need. I can't imagine having to go back a decade or more. wow... makes me appreciate the need to spend a little more time on each shot and get it right the first time or so.
Let's not make assumptions. The guy is a fairly world-renowned photographer. I'm not saying super-famous but pretty known. I'm sure he gets it "more right" on the first try than most people do. He's been doing it for decades and has made a pretty decent living at it. I'm not going to question his ability or his workflow. He said he just came back from a month-long trip to Africa and brought about a 100GB worth of photos back. It's not that much if you think about it. His wife is his partner (also a photographer). If they both shoot 50 photos a day each for 30 days, that's 3,000 shots total. Let's assume that they don't use super high MP cameras and the raw files are 30MB/pc, that's 90GB. That's just the unedited versions. If they want to keep all the RAWs ("negatives", if you will), the amount of data will add up pretty quickly. There might be other photographers that work for/with them that I'm not aware of.
The assumptions were for my own limited skills and shots. I've quickly accumulated alot of images and I still...can't fathom how someone could go through decades worth of material. So for me personally...I've quickly learned that post organizing / processing is much more time expensive than I realized so instead of taking a plethora of shots each shoot, I'm spending much more time on composition and taking much fewer shots.