Help deleting photos!

[Ducky4Disney]

AGH!


Just got back from a wedding and now I have the cull them and get rid of the bad/unsalvagable ones. But I am such a picture pack rat!

I'm staring at clearly bad photos the need to be deleted but I can't push the button! How do you do it? Should I separate them and keep the bad ones for a while before I delete them? Put them on a CD I can conveniently lose?

Are there other picture pack rats out there with this problem?

D4D

 

[Groucho]

So don't delete them! I wouldn't.

The originals can all be archived away, on DVD or however you backup - then copy the good ones to a place where you'll keep them handy to look at in the future. That way you still have the ones you aren't happy with but don't have to look at them when you look at the good ones.

 

[Shir Kahn]

I rarely delete photos, they take up so little space and I want everything! So don't feel that you're alone!

 

[Ducky4Disney]

Really? It's not just me? WHEW!

I think I'm going to separate them and archive them away. I just don't want to flip through 5 shots of the same thing trying to find the "good" one of the 5!

If after a while I find myself not needing/using the other ones, I'll get rid of them.

Thanks for the moral support!

D4D

 

[Nikel]

I delete the really bad ones. Stuff with really bad expressions, flash didn't fire, etc. Everything else I keep. It may not make the second sort, but it doesn't get deleted either. If I was attending a wedding as a guest, I'd probably be less likely to delete though.

 

[cmwade77]

I read a report a while back that due to digital cameras we are loosing a lot of our history that would still be around on film. As a result I only delete pictures if I am somewhere and run out of memory then and only then wkll I go through them on the camera and delete the ones I deem to be bad, otherwise all are kept.

 

[fitzperry]

I read a report a while back that due to digital cameras we are loosing a lot of our history that would still be around on film. As a result I only delete pictures if I am somewhere and run out of memory then and only then wkll I go through them on the camera and delete the ones I deem to be bad, otherwise all are kept.

But do you back your images up? If the advent of digital photography is causing part of our history to be lost, it's because people don't print their pictures and then they lose them when their hard drives fail, not because we delete bad pictures. I always threw away the bad prints too.

 

[matthew_hull]

Yes. Back them up onto DVD or CD, and then cull them down mercilessly. Since you have them safely backed up, you aren't *really* deleting them. Or at least you can tell yourself that to get past your "picture pack rat" feelings.

I'm staring at clearly bad photos the need to be deleted but I can't push the button! How do you do it? Should I separate them and keep the bad ones for a while before I delete them? Put them on a CD I can conveniently lose?