How many of you do this? Or is it just me?

It's a really good idea to wait several days or so before doing your final edit otherwise you'll be stuck with a colour cast that might be off.At least this is the biggest mistake i make when editing. :P

And going over them all again later IS a good thing,no matter how many mistakes you find! It means you are making the most of -and practicing-your editing talent.It's a great way of accellerating the learning curve!!

Found it!
Here's a great article by mike johnson on editing
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/​sm-10-06.shtml

Noticed that if i view the photos after taking them i have no feeling/reaction to them at all. But when viewed days later i can tell which is decent and which is bad. It's as if to erase memory of them then taking a fresh look.

I put all my photos in a folder under a month (04Jan, 04Feb etc) heading called INBOX. I normally have two JPG INBOX and RAW INBOX. I weed out any of the duff shots (too dark, out of focus, bad composition) but keep everying else in the INBOX's. As I process them I then save the processed file (as a TIFF) in seperate folder (FORPRINT, FORWEB) or in a WORKINPROG folder under the month directory. That way as I learn more PS tips I can always go back to the originals (which I archive to CD/DVD) and hopefully get a better result. After the initial clean out though I tend to keep pretty much everything.

I will have (if time allows) someone else look thru the pics on the FlashTrax Drive and see what they think. I too look at them on it afterwoods as I scrutinise the pics more. I'd rather have their input then I will possibly say what I think. I usually don't say much about them. It comes down to sometimes you are your own worst enemy. Failing that when I get home, I will organise them in the "RAW Stuff" folder by what event it and make that the folder name, like "Scotland Trip 19-27 May 04" or "Irish Pub Tour 15-23 Mar 04" or "Heathrow Plane Pics 10 May 03" and so on. D:\RAW Stuff\dcim\xxxcanon\CR​Wxxxx_.CRW From there, I download it to the computer and will look at them further at my leisure. I haven't had much time to sit down and look at the pics of late. I have over 6800 total...like 6818 total pics now including deleted ones. This is what the last file, CRW_6818.CRW was. From there, I try to tweek it and see if it is woth my while. If it isn't, I delete it on the spot; if it is keeper, or think I can salvage it, I will tweek it. I will save the finished/inwork in the "Improved" folder under whatever event it was, like the RAW Stuff folder so it will be D:\Improved\Irish Pub Tour 15-23 Mar 04.

I will usually wait a few days after even looking at the batch I took most recent. I will however, look at older stuff then.

oh yes i do this but hey i am a newbie got a kodak easyshare a few monhts back and now my rebel is in the mail.

a lot of my pics a while back were crap!


i know i will continue to do this though thats how i am with my painting why would photography be different.

but i cant be too bad the pics i took for my friends with my kodak easy share got my hubby bombarded at work ( our friend works in same building) with emails. 5 people already want to pay me to shoot some for them when the rebel gets here! i am not supremely happy with my owkr yet but i will improve and at least while i leanr appaertly i can make a few people happy with the photos.

so i am trying not to be overly critical.

one woman said she payed a professional to shoot her wedding she hated the pics then she saw some i took and wants to pay me to redo them.

Thanks everybody for your comments.

Now, I have some pictures to edit...

Even with my digital camera, where a shot costs nothing more than a little CF card space, I shoot sparingly. I probably seldom have more than 50 photos after a day of walking around with my camera.

Often when I see something interesting, I try several times before I'm satisfied with the photo, for example to get the exposure or composition that I want. I delete the photos I'm not satisfied with directly on the camera.

So my really bad photos most of the time even don't make it to my computer.

Still there's only a small percentage of my photos that I really like and that I find worth printing. Already when I'm busy making the photo, I'm thinking if it will be good enough that I'd want to print it and put it on the wall.

That's exactly what I am talking about.

If that's the case, then I am a like "Man, all of these are worthless!".

SIGH

You mean you're dissapointed at throwing away so many?
My 300d says nearly 6000 pis taken...and i only have several hundred at most

There is nothing wrong with purging the bad stuff, nobody should see those but you, LOL.

Don't be so hard on yourselves, if you have an image that you think is good don't look at it later on and tear it down. Be proud of what you have done and see the good in that image. Lord knows there are enough critics to put your work down, build yourself up.

Sometimes editing the next day or even later will make you see things in a different way. Tomorrow I will shoot an extreme sports competition. That ends around 4pm and then I have a dinner to attend at 6pm. I wouldn't go except that I am the PR person and a board member of the alumni association. So when I get home, around midnight, I will edit and upload the images from earlier that day. I need to have them posted ASAP while the excitement is still there for the competitors so they will buy some of the images. Now if not for the dinner, the images would be uploaded and displayed by 7pm or so. It is not always practical to wait to edit. Learn to edit and pick the best shots ASAP. Don't second guess yourself, learn what to look for on the first preview and learn to choose quickly. The day may come when the ability to pick the right shot and get it out quickly may be the difference between selling an image or getting a nice "thank you, great shot but we already have a shot of that we are using" letter.

This is what my routine is like:

1)Take pictures and download them to PC. Make a main folder that's titled after the session. For example: "Elena Nudes."

2)Make a seperate folder inside the main folder call "selected" and put the images that I like in there.

3)In the "selected" folder I make another folder called "edited," and that's where I put another copy of the selected images after I've done post processing on them.

4)In the "edited" folder, I make another folder called "resized," and those are copies of the edited images resized for the web.

5)I upload the resized images to my website, and post them in photography forums to share with fellow photogs.

6)A few months go by, and I go back and look at the original shots again, and almost always, I find shots that didn't get picked the first time around that looks quite nice the second time around. I then take those shots and repeat step 2~5 again, except this time, I title these shots "Second Looks," because they are shots that looked good on second viewing.

Don't confuse "art" with "important" You may have many pictures that are important to you (family, events, so forth). They suck as "art" because they don't transcend your own personal experiences.

Then there is the "art" Things that are visually appealing, or universally affect people the same way. You might have 100 pictures for each picture you think qualifies as "art", and then 100 of those before you get something really good.

The real question is do you have fun taking pictures? If the answer is yes, then who cares? The art will come.

Mike

I normally do a first weeding session to delete the photos that are technically bad (out of focus, over/underexposed beyond salvage). Sometimes this can be seen in the RAW image, sometimes I weed some more after transferring to 50% JPG.

Out of the 50% JPG, I select the photos to transfer to TIFF and work upon in Photoshop. This are normally not that many. Those go to a 'selected' folder.

However, I burn all the CRW pictures to CD, because it happened to me that I was looking for a specific motive later or a specific crop. Or, one of the relatives I took a photo of, wants to have some and I look through all the photos of the venue to get all the photos that were taken of him. Then, I might add some photos to the 'selected' folder if I think that they are rather good ... or delete photos from it.

When I need space on my hard drive (especially on my laptop), I delete the CRW and the 50% jpgs.

Best regards,
Andy
Andy