Do you keep EVERY picture you take?

Just wondering if you keep every pic you take, or pick the best ones.

nope, alot of the times I take multiple pictures because I am still learning and then I usually just keep the best couple

I usually keep ALL of them, thats why I have no space on my 2 hard drives

not every shot I take is a winner.Plus once I burn them onto a cd for the costumer I delete them off the PC

79TAKid wrote in post #2473498
I usually keep ALL of them, thats why I have no space on my 2 hard drives

40 gigs worth of pictures over the last year on mine. I think it's time to start backing them up!

Just deleted 12 of 26.

I probably have 100GB of images on mine right now, but I shoot for pay and sometimes shoot 1K images per week, deleting about 20% of those. I've been burning mine to CD's and uploading them to online galleries before deleting them from the hard drive. More than likely, I'll soon invest in external hard drives to store wedding and portrait images since the price has gotten so cheap.

It depends on what I am shooting. If out and about hiking the woods looking for that one nature shot, my keep to delete ratio is low and I can get rid of nearly all I took except for a few. If trying new technique or experimenting, my keeper rate again is low. If it's an event with family and friends, I keep any that are in focus and closer to properly exposed so my keep rate is quite high. If I add them all together, I took about 4000 pics last year and a quick check shows that I have 2142 so my keep rate is about %50.

I have PSE5.0 and they have a great way to check the pictures you want to put on your hard drive. I don't go through the shots every time, but when I do, I find I keep about 80% of the whole. Can't save everything, only have 2 external hard drives. I also take around 500 shots a week on a regular basis, not as many as Liza, but still, can get really full on the hard drive with the 5D and 20D. I go through all my CF cards sometimes in one shoot, that's 8 GB's of stuff.

any blurry or soft shots get chopped right away, then its more technical. I keep about a third overall, from there only a select few make it to the web and even fewer get printed

Review in Bridge with a slide show. There are things I snap that even CS3 can't fix.... I delete them immediately.

No way just wouldn't make a whole lot of sense some don’t even make it out of the camera.

John Nicholas wrote in post #2474077
No way just wouldn't make a whole lot of sense some don’t even make it out of the camera.

You know, maybe if I chimped more often it would cut down on my process time. Perhaps I should follow your lead!

liza wrote in post #2474100
You know, maybe if I chimped more often it would cut down on my process time. Perhaps I should follow your lead!

I do the same. I chimp a LOT.

I delete OOF, camera shake, crappy composition, and those odd pictures where someone is in the middle of blinking and looks like they are in a coma, that sort of thing! and the odd outright cockup like ISO 3200 in broad daylight or forgot to set the flash or wrong Av/Tv values. I do a lot of that....

But I do keep a lot of crap too.