Letting go of images. (Deleting)

MaleficZ

Anyone else have a hard a time as I do deleting pictures? I just went through alot of deleting due to low HD space. I know I'll probably never use the pictures, and I have them uploaded and backed up on CD somehwere, but its still SO HARD to delete any image. Is it just me? :dunno

David_S85

MaleficZ wrote:

Anyone else have a hard a time as I do deleting pictures? I just went through alot of deleting due to low HD space. I know I'll probably never use the pictures, and I have them uploaded and backed up on CD somehwere, but its still SO HARD to delete any image. Is it just me?

Used to have that problem. What I do now is firstly - delete the unimportant and hopeless shots in the camera. From there, the CF card gets burned direct to a CD or DVD. I have a small burner/card reader device for that. I make two copies in case one goes bad. I have forced myself to do these backups first, and don't need to worry (much) about losing the images. I keep a printed log of what's on each CD, in each shot, with exposure info, file #, etc. for instant reference without having to refer to a computer at all.

Only the real keepers get loaded onto the computer's HD for editing. I can always edit a shot better in the future, so I don't even worry about losing an edited shot on the HD if it crashed, which it will.

So this is my NoFear method. It took me 6 years to get into a disciplined routine.

ginger_55

By coincidence, I just installed what I thought was a DVD writer. Turns out that it only PLAYS DVDs.

I have a CD writer on my PC, but CDs are not big enough, takes forever to back up. That is why I wanted a DVD writer. I even bought the damn DVDs. They are 16Xs, so what should I have bought as an inexpensive, very, DVD writer to put the darn photos on?

ginger

dragon300zx

Erase files? What? Never heard of that. I just archive. 0 image loss tolerance here.:D

Harryb

MaleficZ wrote:

Anyone else have a hard a time as I do deleting pictures? I just went through alot of deleting due to low HD space. I know I'll probably never use the pictures, and I have them uploaded and backed up on CD somehwere, but its still SO HARD to delete any image. Is it just me?

I used to have a hard time deleting shots but after burning a few hundred CDs I started to get a tad more picky. I would say that I now delete about 80% of my shots. I just don't have the time to process or store a medicore shot.

ginger_55

I just spent a 1/2 hr deleting, and this was supposed to be a TV/reading/relaxing evening.

Yeah, it is getting easier to delete. Especially if it doesn't move. I can come back to those. If it does move and I haven't done anything recently with it, well, I have other stuff waiting.

But it is still time consuming. I cannot delete at the beginning, I am not smart enough to be sure of good/bad, and I really don't know for at least a week, then I precrastinate.

I have 30.00 worth of DVDs and nothing to write them with.

ginger

gluwater

I'm still trying to decide the best way of backing up/storeing/filing/tagging my shots. My current work flow is to delete hopeless shots on the camera at the time I take them. Once at home I transfer to my computer via $20 Card Reader(Best $20 I ever spent). The .cr2 files go to a "New Pictures" folder on my storage drive. Then I go through them in Camera Raw and Tag/Process the raw files and save them to a "Processed files" folder. Within that folder are sub-folders such as "Family" and "Forest Preserves", within those are further sub-folders describing certain locations or events, and within those are folders by date "2005_09_09", and within the date folder are two more folders, "jpg" and "raw". In the raw folder I save a .dng created through ACR, and the "jpg" folder should be self explanetory. Once I'm done processing the files I like and have saved them, I delete the folder in the "New Pictures" folder. I think it is easier to delete this way because I am not haveing to push "delete" as I am looking at the picture. Three more steps. I upload to SmugMug, Burn to DVD, and upload to my Epson P-2000(jpg only of selected shots).

Hope that helps rather than confuses.

gluwater

Does anyone else use Tags to find shots? I use locations, and lens type in my tags. ACR makes it really easy cause you can make a static list of tags and then just select the shots and then click on the tags you want.