First pass RAW editing question

This is a really basic question for many of you I'm sure but here goes. Up to now I have only processed small numbers of RAW images from a days shooting (maybe 50ish). I was doing mostly landscape stuff and really took my time with each shot so most were workable.

Now I'm venturing into people stuff where I'm doing a lot of experimenting and such. My question is when I sit down and start going through hundreds of files where there might only be 50 "keepers" how do I quickly sort though and dump the ones that I know right off don't work? And when I say dump I mean deleting off my HD. I know there are ways to "tag" images, and then choose to only view the ones with the tag you select (ie. stars). But I want the ones I screwed up on completely gone from taking up space on my HD right from the get go.

Part two of the question is once I have the "keeper" pile and the "trash" pile is there a way to physically segregate them so I can dump the whole "trash" bunch in one easy step (like deleting a folder)?

I hope I'm explaining this clear enough and I know it's probably a very elementary question. I have just never delt with this many images from a day before.

Software I'm using is Lightroom and CS2. I have DPP too but have never really used it.

Thanks for any help.

Chris

I'm familiar with DPP. You can tag trash seperately from keepers. Select (by tag) the trash & delete en-masse. Very easy & worth a look.

Ok, so I could do that in DPP then import the keepers to LR from there I guess. I'll check that out and see if that works for me.

I'm basically trying to understand how I can quickly go though hundreds of images as if I was looking at real photos I got back from the lab and sorting through them going "OOF (trash)", "eyes closed (trash)", "good comp (keeper)", "lens flare (trash)", etc.

Thanks for the reply

Chris

It's done by check marks & you have 3 to categorize "trash", "Keepers", or possibly "undecided". DPP (in my opinion) doesn't get the credit it deserves my many people. It's kind of a "sleeper" program that is quite good if you just give it a chance. Explore, experiment, have fun & good luck.

If you have CS2, you have Bridge as well. In Bridge, give the keepers a rating of 5 stars. Rate the dump-files with 1 star....or even, no stars. From the main Bridge Menu: View-Sort-By Rating. Click the first dump-file, hold the shift key, click on the last dump-file, and lastly, click on the trash can in the upper right hand corner. All selected dump-files will be deleted.

Cheers