Do you have CDS

happysmileylady

As in Can't Delete Sh!t?:D

I shot a backyard bbq reception last night and shot about 500 images. Like any other event, there are plenty of shots that are obviously garbage-flash didn't go off, blinks, things that I tried that didn't work etc etc.

And I know these are garbage, I know they will never see the light of day! And yet, not only do I feel compelled to keep them, but apparently redundantly back them up, along with all the rest of the photos.

Storage space is going to quickly fill up with all these garbage photos. If you had CDS and have successfully recovered from it, how did you do so? And I know there are others here with cds, their hard drives, externals, disks, files etc are full of all the garbage shots, test shots and others that simply aren't worth keeping, but we keep anyway.

Richard

happysmileylady wrote:

If you had CDS and have successfully recovered from it, how did you do so?

Practice, practice, practice.

Seriously, I don't know how long you have been doing photography. I am into my fifth year, and every year I take fewer shots and keep fewer pics. I would like to think that it's because my critical sense has improved, but maybe I'm just getting lazier. As you said, it chews up storage and if you are processing and/or keywording all your shots, it also consumes time that would be better spent on shooting.

I wouldn't worry about, though. Storage is cheap and you can always delete the garbage later if you want. As time goes on, I expect the problem will take care of itself.

happysmileylady

Richard wrote:

Practice, practice, practice.

Seriously, I don't know how long you have been doing photography. I am into my fifth year, and every year I take fewer shots and keep fewer pics. I would like to think that it's because my critical sense has improved, but maybe I'm just getting lazier. As you said, it chews up storage and if you are processing and/or keywording all your shots, it also consumes time that would be better spent on shooting.

I wouldn't worry about, though. Storage is cheap and you can always delete the garbage later if you want. As time goes on, I expect the problem will take care of itself.

He He, the answer to how long I have been doing photography depends on what you consider "doing photography"

When my oldest was born (she's almost 14) I started working at Sears Portrait Studio:D . Some folks wouldn't consider that "doing photography" and others would. Almost 14 years later and I am nearly through my first year of serious, in business for myself, making my own money off of my own images photography. And in between I have done everything from simply taking snapshots with a p&s, to assisting, to editing etc etc. The bulk of my experience is in the working with people, posing, composition sections. Obviously starting where I did, technical knowledge-the best way to set up lighting, choose the right shutter speed to get exactly the effect I want, etc-is something I have less experience in.

I will say, 14 years ago, I began with film....and took fewer shots, just out of necessity-film is not nearly as cheap as digital storage. With digital, I find myself taking more, just because I can. The idea that I can take whatever I want and delete the crap later......results in more crap shots that I feel compelled to NOT delete

InsuredDisaster

Depends on the crap I shoot. Test shots, yeah, they are fair game for being tossed. And every so often, I'd go through and trash a few thousand photos, even though my soul burned every time. Thing was yeah, the shots weren't great, but since I take photos to remember the trips I go on, I felt that even the not so great shots helped fill out the story or give the 1 good one a better context.

Then recently, I was nearly out of space. I'd filled my internal drives, and I had photos on 3 different external drives. It was a mess. It was time to go in there and do some major cleaning.













So I bought a 1TBx2 hard drive set for redundancy, and put away the garbage bags.

davev

I normally don't delete anything that I've shot, even the way out of focused shots.
I've had digital cameras since 1996, an Epson PhotoPC.

I'm guessing I have close to 100,000 shots on 3 different hard drives. (meaning all of them on 3 different drives)

denisegoldberg

I can't imagine keeping everything that I shoot. As I grow as a photographer I get more and more picky about the keepers. Yes, I do keep some not-perfect shots when they help me to learn. But I toss many.

For those of you who keep everything you shoot - do you ever go back and look at those photos, learn from them? It seems to me that with "bad" photos scattered among the good shots that it would be painful to go through old photos.

--- Denise

InsuredDisaster

denisegoldberg wrote:

I can't imagine keeping everything that I shoot. As I grow as a photographer I get more and more picky about the keepers. Yes, I do keep some not-perfect shots when they help me to learn. But I toss many.

For those of you who keep everything you shoot - do you ever go back and look at those photos, learn from them? It seems to me that with "bad" photos scattered among the good shots that it would be painful to go through old photos.

--- Denise

See, I use lightroom. I just flag the ones I really, realy like, and then if I'm looking for good shots, then I just do a search for flagged shots, or 5 start shots, etc. I used to delete 90% of the shots I took. But then i realized that I had some good shots, but lost a lot of the context shots. Sometimes I like to just go back and look at the "snap shots" and enjoy my travel shots. Othertimes, I look for the best of the best.

Angelo

After a shoot I will run through my jpg thumbnails once and not again for at least 12 hours. At that point I begin flagging what I really like.

On a third pass I start deleting the obvious garbage.

On a fourth pass I open RAW files of questionable images to see if there's anything salvageable and delete anything that's even remotely questionable.

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