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Korialstrasza

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So, in the first couple weeks with my new 20D i've generated a little over 3000 photos. Naturally, they're not all good. I'm not a professional photographer, just taking my hobby a step further. My question is how do you deal with all these photos you accumulate? Do you find the ones you like the most and delete the others? Do you delete none of them and store the many gigs on hard drives?

Thanks for the advice.
 
I erase the ones that are blatantly bad, like random shots of hats or cans or something. Most other shots I keep around even if they're not salvageable since I can still learn what I did wrong for the shot and how to correct it for future shots.

I store all my photos on the hard drive and make backups to DVD right now.
 
I just keep them in a folder, I have a server in the next room that stores it all. I also every once a month go to the safe vault and grab the HDD in there, put them all on, and then stick it back ;)
 
I normally keep all the shots that I take. Except for the real messed up ones. After converting my raw files to 16 or 8bit tiffs, I stick these into a folder separted by subject. When I have enough for a DVD burn I do that (TY works great). I also keep a jpg version of all my pics on a 300gb secondary drive on my main machine. So I have one jpg copy on my Main machine, and a source copy on a (Decent quality archival DVD's)....
 
Right now I have all (2000) shots in a folder on a secondary 200gb drive. They're all 8.2mp JPGs. When I browse through them in photoshop, it slows my comp like a mofo. Any tweaks I can do to speed that up a bit? (running 3ghz p4 w/ 2gb ram)
 
What version of photoshop do you have. If you have CS2, you can adjust your Memory & Image Cache, and that speeds it up. I also think CS2 is a lot faster than CS1. But I did notice a increase in speed when I jumped from a 3500+ to a X2 3800+. Dual core processors rule...
 
I generally keep every picture (except those way out of focus ones where the scene is one huge blob). I oragnize it more or less by the date of the shot and the event. I have a folder for JPEGs and Converted files, while the main folder has all of the *.CR2 (Raw) files from the event. I shoot RAW + JPEG, which is why I can keep the JPEGs easily.

I'm trying to burn them to Taiyo Yuden DVD media, but I'm way behind. Right now the storage on my workstation weighs in at about 800GB (about 900GB if you count my portable/external storage), and there isn't much free space left.
 
Well I save pretty much all of mine. I put them in named subjects such as, Weather and, sunsets. Also I just shoot random stuff for my own little Photoshop elements file. Then I back-up on DVD or CD depending on which file Im saving.
 
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