Do you hoard?

I've found that I have a tendency to never delete a file..even if it's junk. Space is so cheap now that it seems like you can have thousands of pictures and never sift through them.

I really should as having a huge number of shots like I do is pretty pointless for the junk ones, particularly RAW files. Also, do you always keep the RAW of a keeper, or after you are done and have it out as a jpeg do you delete the RAW?

It depends. Some do some don't.

I used to, but I've gotten MUCH better about this over the last couple years. I only keep photos that really have a purpose now.

If I'm keeping the photo, I am always keep the RAW.

timnosenzo wrote in post #13532838
I used to, but I've gotten MUCH better about this over the last couple years. I only keep photos that really have a purpose now.

If I'm keeping the photo, I am always keep the RAW.

Yeah, my biggest thing is time, between two crazy kids and everything else I never seem to have any time to really sort out the shots. Although I did just get a remote desktop app for my iPad, so now I can maybe go through them and delete the obvious junkers and clean up while not being hunched over my computer desk and away from the kids.

I'll keep the RAW file of a JPEG, but if it's a junk shot no sense in keeping a junk RAW file

This is on my list of things to do, but with over 20,000 pictures, it seems like a losing battle.

At first I rarely deleted any files except unusable ones but now I don't think much about deleting something. If it doesn't "move" me enough to do anything with it for 3 months it obviously isn't a keeper for me.

I'm the other way around on this. As much as I may like a shot at first glance, after 30 seconds of really looking at it I'll think "Meh..." and delete it.
I kind of wish I had kept more of 'em so I could go back and take another look, or play with them in post a bit.

I deleted almost 200 photos on the flight back from Walt Disney World earlier this year. I had uploaded all 900 onto my iPad. I shoot the heck out of pictures and then cut out the chaff. I shoot RAW and keep em so unless I am printing, exporting to flickr or Facebook, or emailing them. I find it easier to shoot a few and delete a few.

I delete some while still in the camera. Then I look at the rest in the computer, and usually delete about fifty percent. I rest I enter into LR3 and rate them with stars. I look at them again later and anything that is "meh" gets deleted.

I do have some icky pics of trips, just because I want to remember the trip and the fun I had. Those I never delete, they are records of a fun vacation, not an artistic statement.

I try to delete files that aren't worth of keeping. I always try to keep my photo library pretty clean!

Bryan

Yes! To the extent that it's stupid. :P

It got to the stage where I couldn't even use photoshop without "...the scratch disks are full." error popping up.

It's something I need to do more when I import my photos - separate (and delete!) the "rejects" from the keepers. Thing is, I quite often see myself coming back to a photo that I wasn't too fussed about to begin with and having a complete change of opinion.

Storage is cheap so I only do a cursory edit and delete obviously bad files, but then generally hold on to the rest.

Space is actually pretty expensive right now with the flood in Thailand as the world's biggest hard drive makers. I used to keep a large percentage of my shots, now I'm beginning to be even more selective.

I'm guilty of Hoarding due to Expediency...

I do go back and get really medieval on my folders, eventually...

Unfortunately, within a given year I move from shoot to shoot so fast that I usually only have time to cherry pick, upload the best and then move on to something else.