To delete or not to delete

Actually, it’s about managing our fast growing photos, deleting the unaccepted photos is the first step, perhaps. Sometimes, I have hard time to click “delete” if the photo holds the memory, special moments, or happy experience, like the blurry galloping horse photos I posted yesterday.

Three weeks ago, I captured an eagle at a nearby park with my iPhone, the bird was about 25 feet above me. After I cropped the image, it looked even worse, but hubby was able to tell it was an eagle. It was my first ever photo capture of a flying eagle, and I was unwilling to delete it.

Thank you for sharing your experience of organizing and managing old and new photos. I have gathered some feedback. They are below these photos, hope you’ll find it helpful.

I have done a couple photo book projects this summer. One was for my brother, I gathered the photos he has emailed me and photos of our Bangkok trip and made a photo book. He said it brought to tears as he was looking through, I imagine he was holding sweet memories. I guess a tangible photo book telling stories still means a lot to us, no matter how convenient it is to view online. The first photo book I made for myself was the photos of bees, butterflies, and dragonflies. My next one may be horses and deer. 🙂

Oh, I almost forgot, Bambi showed up last Sunday. This time, he was out of woods, staying behind grass and weeds. He has grown a lot since last time (some two weeks ago) I saw him.

Do you print your photos or make photo books?

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Thank you so much for sharing how you manage your photos. I have learned so much from all of you. Thank you! 🙂

  • I keep my photos on a memory card, external hard disk of 1TB as well as on memory sticks. I try not to keep too many photos of local sights as these can change so I thrash often.

  • I keep the photos I need easy access to, like the ones I print, on my computer. I will go through fairly often and put the rest on my external hard drive.

  • When I have imported the photos, I delete the memory card when I put it back in the camera. A professional phtographer once looked at my workflow and advised me not to delete the images on the memory card whilst it’s connected to the computer. So I delete all the images after every shooting except when travelling.

  • I tend to organise my photographs in stages within a few days of taking them. I first scroll through them on my camera and delete images that are too blurry or where I have only caught a tail or hindleg from the dogs. I do another big sweep once I have downloaded them on the laptop and decide which ones I want to run through lighroom.

  • I use a portable hard drive. My pics are very important to me.

  • I keep everything and everywhere,which makes the situation chaotic.

  • My unacceptable pics gets trashed immediately after any photography session. I shoot raw and all my images remain as raw. I don’t store any jpgs. All my images remain on my laptop and gets synced on to my RAID based 2TB HDD at home. But its filling up fast.

  • As for orderly archiving I am fairly useless but have started to upload the ones I really like to a photo printing site – turn them into something tangible – any that come out well will be kept in a folder on the hard drive and backed up externally too.

  • I delete photos from the inserted card via my computer, then load the new “Saved” ones onto a computer file for that specific time period.

  • I am good at deleting photos after I have downloaded them onto my computer. I also review photos on my camera at the end of the day or session and delete from there as well. Sometimes I need to see the photo on a big screen to decide whether to keep or delete.

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