What do you do with them??

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A question that popped into my mind today that I thought I must ask you all.

I haven't really had "the bug" until about 6 months ago but I am notching up pics at quite a rate now.

I don't print them, I don't sell them and my Mrs won't let me put them on the wall... just what on earth am I doing with thousands of photos?? Apart from convincing myself that I need yet another hard disk to keep them on (as I am dead scared of loosing them on a CD/DVD/floppy disk)

What do you do with yours?

BTW, do you ever have the heart to bin the rubbish ones and just keep the "keepers"??
 
I've got three printed at 20x30 and they are on the wall in my uni accommodation.

A lot of them are uploaded onto networking site like Facebook because they involve my friends etc.

Most stay on my computer as a reminder of where I've been (both physically and as a photographer) so that I can look back on them after a while and think "wow I'm so much better than I was when I took those" :p

The latest ones get uploaded here for critique so I can continue to improve.

I think you have to be quite harsh on yourself when it comes to binning the rubbish ones. Firstly it saves on HDD space and secondly if you kept the bad ones you would never improve because if you are happy keeping the rubbish there's nothing pushing you to do better.

Just my 2p :)

Panzer
 
I'm pretty much the same, I don't really do anything with my photos, just like it when I take a good one. As for keeping the rubbish I edit the best photos and store them in a seperate folder but keep some of the better photos (that arent really good enough) just incase I decide I wan to use them at a later date. I despise deleting any photo so really only delete repeats and OOF ones (as well as really bad ones). After only a couple of months photographing properly I already have over 10GB of 'keepers' and thats after going through them recently and being really harsh on the ones I want to keep.
 
I bin loads. I average about 20Gb per year of "keepers" but probably take 5 times that. I need to sort this year as I am up to 16.5G already!
 
Have any of you thought about how to archive these yet? I mean getting them off of your hard disk, or at least backing them up.
 
Now I have a tad more experience I am slightly more ruthless at binning the duffers....but it would take for ever to go through my back catalogue of "snaps" so I'm not bothering. I have a hard drive on our server at home for all of my images, past and present, with a backup extra hard drive that I am supposed to use regularly, and I always burn a DVD as soon as I download from the card (duffers and all) as a further copy, just in case one of those duffers turns out to be an undiscovered work of art! :lol:

I used to print favorites, but the wall in my study is now full and I can't bear to throw any away! My printer is just about dead anyway.......:(

I don't share on the internet, except for here......can't see the point yet.
 
I wallop mine onto an external drive.
The only ones that are printed are for work or competitions within my industry (Nails).
Id love to shoot/create something, that I felt was good enough to my eye to go on my wall, but alas tis still nekid! :naughty:
 
most of mine are printed at 6x4 for the wife to sick in an album or send to relatives, the good ones i like i keep in a (very empty) folder on my pc, most piccies are backed up and stored on dvd and external drive. Have no prints on my wall, but i need to do a couple of abstracts for project X at work
 
i keep every single one. Even the bad ones as i learn from them.
Old ones i go to and in say 6months may post process it differently to improve it as my skills mature.
I print some 6x4 and have a couple of 20" one on the wall. Even send snaps and portraits to family etc.
 
I think I've got between 300/400 GB of pics now, the vast majority coming from motocross/rallies etc. The bulk of these are held on two hard drives in the PC. Another two drives hold back up copies of them :|

Most are processed into low res copies for putting onto my webbies, quite a lot of the wife on her horse and the dogs are printed out and are on the walls at various sizes. I wouldn't have printed some of them but I don't get a say in that, she likes them so up they go ;)

The worst of the rubbish gets deleted during the initial previews. The borderline stuff gets deleted at the processing stage. I didn't used to be so brutal but about 2 months ago I had a good spring clean and deleted about 10GB.
 
Hi
I dump about half of what I take, process some as required. Backup to an external hard drive and rarely print.
 
I never delete anything. I have an external hard disk which has a PHOTOS_IN partition where everything gets downloaded (so the raw files and preview JPGs) so nothing deleted, and a PHOTOS_OUT partition for the ones I process (the TIFFs and output JPGs).

I have a second external hard drive used for backing up my laptop and will not reformat my memory cards until everything has been copied onto that too. Then when I have a DVD's worth I make two DVDs, one to keep at home, and one to keep at my parents', and delete them from the second hard disk. So basically I have everything on HD and backed up on DVD.

When someone like Photobox has a 1p print deal I will get 6x4s made of all the processed ones. Easier to show them to family that way, but it is very helpful to see how they look printed out. A monitor is only around 72-100 pixels per inch so will never be able to compare with the quality of a 300dpi print. Something that appears okay on screen might not work printed, or (and more often the case) look so much better. I would definitely recommend having prints made.

At the moment I only post them on forums because I am lazy.

Michael.
 
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