Sorting the Days Work . . .

I have similar but 5th grade system.
1 st cleaning in camera viewfinder before making buton clik,
2 nd after shooting during reviewing in LCD display (to clean obvious mistakes)
3 rd - I burn CD, to have them all
4 th I choose to have sth best to work on (with)
5 th I chose some to share with others ...


and it work really, even when I feel blue and deleted some realy good one, I still have them on my CD garde 3, or in my head grade 1st

So it is called "Hording" I was not aware it had a formal name. I am going to try a one step program this morning . . . I will let you guys know how I do.

I'm afraid to delete most of my photo's .

Other than the obvious OOF or pure crap, I keep them all.

My PS treatment skills are always improving, and I don't know enough to know what is not ever recoverable, when they're close to OK. Since I shoot in RAW, I may, sometime in the future, develope the skills to make these keepers.

Who knows what the future holds for Digital Developement? When I was in college, the "internet" still belonged to DoD, and look where we are now.

DVD space is relatively cheap (compared to HD), and this is where I keep everything.

Besides, you will never get the chance to get that same photo again.

As well, I'll need something to do when I retire (and there is bad weather).

Man I guess I need to find a different support group, I have no problem getting rid of bad shots and even sometimes good shots that are part of a sequence.

I shot a wrestling regional this weekend, 6 wrestlers from the one school participated. Since the client is only interested in ones that make the finals, or consolation and advance to semi state, I didn't even arrive until the first round was over.
Usually I go thru and submit what they will use, and write the captions, so I get to be my own editor, so to speak.

My way of doing it is to open 10 at time in PS. If I see one I like, I minimize it and look at the next ones. I then open another 10, so on and so on until I have looked at everything on the card. This weekend out of about 75 images, I got down to about 30 on the first pass. I open batches of 10 and pick the best 3-5 of each wrestler. So now I am down to about 12-15 shots. I pick the best 1 of anyone who didn't win the final match, then concentrate on the best of the guy who did. Sometimes I will then crop, sometimes not, depending on how much of deadline I am up against

In the end there were 6 shots, 3 of the guy who took 1st place, 2 of the guy took second and 1 of the 3rd place guy.


p.s.if your interested, they can be seen at http://ftonews.com/spo​rts.html just scroll down until you see the wrestling pictures.

I split mine into two categories:

1. Family shots. I keep all of these, even the crap ones, because they are documenting moments that are important. Actually some of my crap ones turn out to be good ones in the end - I took one of my daughter with the shutter still set for a long exposure experiment I was doing and when I looked at it weeks later I kinda liked the effect!

2. All others: I cull the really bad ones in camera. Then I cull the next worse ones using PSCS. But I am really only culling the REALLY bad ones. The rest I keep.

Here's a more fundamental question for fellow horders. What are you keeping them for?

dewmuw wrote:
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Here's a more fundamental question for fellow horders. What are you keeping them for?

1. In the hope that this CSI-plugin will be reality once
(you know, the one that makes of a picture from standard vidcam from a distance of 1 km a picture where you can even see the white in the eye of the villain )

2. Once, in a very far future, people will like OOF-pictures and won't like sharp ones

3. (More seriously) Better have a bad picture of a subject than not having a picture at all...

Ikinaa wrote:
1. In the hope that this CSI-plugin will be reality once
(you know, the one that makes of a picture from standard vidcam from a distance of 1 km a picture where you can even see the white in the eye of the villain )

2. Once, in a very far future, people will like OOF-pictures and won't like sharp ones

3. (More seriously) Better have a bad picture of a subject than not having a picture at all...

CSI-Pulgin - ROFL!! In an epsiode last week Grissom took a half burnt polaroid and then, using his PC, enhance the picture to be able to read the lable on a medicine bottle in the background in the picture!! I snorted in derision and my wife told me off for being a photo-anorak!

I'll be honest and say I keep them because I like having them. Nothing more than that. To me it is a bit like keeping a diary!

dewmuw wrote:
. What are you keeping them for?

Because I can!

Mostly for the reasons other have stated, I took them, and I might find something I can use in them again.

I tried to throw some away today . . . but now I am going to keep them all! CSI-plugin for sure.

Take a look at Pixort (free). You can sort RAW pics into 1st, 2nd, 3rd,... priority folders with it.
http://www.pixort.com/