What do you do with your "garbage" photos?

What do you guys do to your pictures you decide not to keep? Put them on an external HD? Delete them from your card completely? Keep them and buy new cards? Etc.

Delete completely and forget they ever happened.

I'm thinking about doing that. I just don't want to regret it later on...even though I'll probably never look at them to begin with.

i download all the shots onto my hard drive, burn a dvd as a backup then when im editing the shots, delete the ones i dont need.

If they're junk now then they'll still be junk later. In fact, as your skill grows they can only become worse with time. Most of my keepers from 10 years ago make me laugh these days.

Something to be said for deleting them... and I do.

However, I often wonder if it might not be better to just burn them to DVD, just for posterity. I mean, a DVD costs nothing and if I ever did need the image, it would be nice to open a box of DVDs, and find that image I needed.

How many RAW files can a single DVD hold though? Obviously you'd need to buy more than 1 DVD, but I'm curious as to how big this box would need to be

Download to the PC and critically evaluate then delete. May go back to the folder a day or two later and delete some more.

HankScorpio wrote in post #11002356
Delete completely and forget they ever happened.

+1

Cole_Schmitt wrote in post #11002450
How many RAW files can a single DVD hold though? Obviously you'd need to buy more than 1 DVD, but I'm curious as to how big this box would need to be

Well, I figure I shoot most shoots with a single 8GB card - it'd be one dual layer DVD per 8gb card.

Of course that may vary, but it gets you into ballpark.

I delete ones with screwed-up focus or composition or badly muffed exposure right off the bat. what I do from there depends on what the material is, how meaningful it is, how I need to use it, etc.

tonylong wrote in post #11002640
I delete ones with screwed-up focus or composition or badly muffed exposure right off the bat. what I do from there depends on what the material is, how meaningful it is, how I need to use it, etc.

Yeah, Tony, I think that should be a given. I mean who needs blurry, dark, OOF shots?

(Unless maybe it's Bigfoot or something!)

Todd Lambert wrote in post #11002682
Yeah, Tony, I think that should be a given. I mean who needs blurry, dark, OOF shots?

i never shoot blurry, dark, OOF shots!!!! lol i shoot jpg so storing them on dvds is no problem.

howzitboy wrote in post #11002747
i never shoot blurry, dark, OOF shots!!!! lol i shoot jpg so storing them on dvds is no problem.

Me neither... just sayin'

I carry a mini-usb to mini-usb cable and transfer them to freind's cameras when they aren't looking...

Hilarious Fun!