How many files do you keep?

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Hi guys

I'm currently waiting for my hard drives to arrive. But I am wondering how many of you keep everything you photograph? Do you keep only the best few out of that 100 you took on one day, or do you keep all 100. Also, what file type do you keep the files at for those you choose to keep?

Any help/advice gratefully received

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Sarah
 
Personally I keep them all, keep the raw files straight out the camera:thumbs:

I look back at them every now and then and chuckle to myself:help::lol:
 
I keep all the raw files on a ex'drive after getting rid of the c**p, and any files I use for the web etc, you never know when you might need a file from year's ago..:)
 
I back up pretty much every raw file on external hard drives though almost never use them again. I should probably delete more rather than just keep buying more storage space but it seems such a big job to trawl through everything and decide what to keep and what to delete.
 
everything!!! :D

normally raw files onto ext hard drive, and jpegs on laptop... well, till it gets full and I've got to dump them onto the ext hard drive too.
 
ive started pruning the rubbish out of the raw files, although i did delete all the raw files from my last trip out, after id converted them to DNGs so i could view them in lightroom. i need to start saving hard disk space!
 
i tend to look through all my days RAW files, choose which ones i want and save these to an external hard drive, then i send them to lightroom and process them into jpeg and store these on my PC hard drive in a file with the month name (ie August) at the end of the month i save all the procesed jpegs onto a DVD and delete from my PC.
So i have the original RAW on my external hard drive and the processed jpeg on a DVD.
 
I keep about 10-25%. I pretty ruthless and prefer it that way, makes you think more when taking a shot.
 
work everything but the oof shots

personal I cull to just the good stuff

portfolio is a separate set and catalogue which only every has the best stuff in it
 
First thing I do is backup everything from the shoot, I then back these up on two external drives and delete the crap originals on my main laptop when working on them. I then export all the finished images as JPEG and keep three copies of them.
 
Over the last few years I have been deleting a lot and trying only to keep the photos I think I might want to use.

Today however my project is making brushes and it does not really matter if the images are OoF as I only need bits of them - so all those bird flight pictures that I dumped would be really useful now :D
 
I only keep about 10% of all the photos I take, 3000+ RAW Files per airshow would fill my drives up far to quickly.

Once I've done my PP I keep the JPEG's in one folder on one External drive and the original RAW files on another External driver in a folder for location per day. I then have a ROBOCOPY Job which mirrors each drive to a matching drive.

so all in all I have 2 copies of each PP JPEG and 2x copies of my RAW's

I used to backup my RAW's to a single burn DVD but after a year or so I tried to recover some shots but it couldn't read them back 100% due to crc errors.

Steve of Stevipedia.co.uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevipedia/with/4855727757/
 
Personaly i only keep the good ones, I think the best way to learn and improve is to not look at the crap you too, but look at the good and try and improve it.

It also saves disk space cutting out all the blurred, bad composition shots.

I only shoot in Jpeg too as i am trying to get into the habbit of getting it right within the camera and not spending too much time in PP, after all thats what i think makes a good photographer, getting it right and understanding where the mistake was, there's no talent in shooting RAW then spending an evening making it look pretty, anyone can do that (opens up a can, sits back and waits, :D )
 
I cull straight from camera, those who make it through that usually stays. I store the RAW files on external drives / network, and the finished edit on laptop.

Exception is if I'm just experimenting with settings, etc., where I usually delete everything after I've analysed it on the computer.
 
Lazlo Woodbine said:
I back up pretty much every raw file on external hard drives though almost never use them again. I should probably delete more rather than just keep buying more storage space but it seems such a big job to trawl through everything and decide what to keep and what to delete.
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Same here. I realy should set aside a couple of days to just go through and bin the chaff. (There is plenty of chaff!)
 
I get shut of the duffers as I take them, out of focus, missed target and so on.
I then write everything to DVDr
I then get shut of the multiples and I keep the prefered image of the sequence, most are people blinking they go I always shoot 3-4 frames just to make sure I get everyones eyes open and they live on my server which is using a raid 5+1 for redundancy and also uses an AIT for tape backup. but that is mainly for work not photography but I use it for photos as well so they are backup with everything else.
 
So many methods and variations! Thanks guys, will have to try a few see what works best for me! :thumbs:
 
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