'Rejects' - or images that at first sight ....

"Love it or heave it"

is one way of doing it. :)

I have a Panasonic GX1 that has the entire camera "Reset" positioned between card "Format" and "Number Reset". Couldn't be in worse spot.

:eek:

Having spent years chasing the perfect PanX/Microdol crispness, OOF or blurred shots were never something I appreciated. I find that this has changed a bit. Here is one I almost deleted from a couple weeks ago--and "rethought" just the other day. Called 'Travellers' it will be included in a planned show! Sometimes it takes weeks or even years to bring new eyes to a shot. Hence, I never delete anything--except of course those occasional shots of my shoe or the sky... :rolleyes:

Having spent years chasing the perfect PanX/Microdol crispness, OOF or blurred shots were never something I appreciated. I find that this has changed a bit. Here is one I almost deleted from a couple weeks ago--and "rethought" just the other day. Called 'Travellers' it will be included in a planned show! Sometimes it takes weeks or even years to bring new eyes to a shot. Hence, I never delete anything--except of course those occasional shots of my shoe or the sky... :rolleyes:

 

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I really like that shot. But as you say in my first cut I might have deleted it - although there is something about that one that grabs you immediately. I think it's the girl's eyes - that's 99% of that shot.

Also a bad picture 99% of the time stays bad.

Well said!

I deleted 6 full photoshoots through my career. No looking back. :mad:

I delete 90% before I get home

I never delete in camera but cull images once I am home. How many I keep varies - more if it is from travel, less otherwise; but in general, still too many. Storage isn't that cheap once you realize you need a 6TB drive just to hold your images (and two more to back those up). I seem to be shooting less nowadays, but image file size is increasing with MP count - and overall the storage needs increase.

I delete probably 20% in-camera, and a further 40% on loading into Lightroom. I'm indecisive. This is nowhere near enough. If I could be bothered to revisit files after even a few weeks, I could probably lose another 20% at least & the only reason I don't is that I don't want to waste time going through pictures I don't much like. I have never, in 11 years of digital photography, regretted deleting any image or found a use for anything if only I hadn't deleted it. In a previous life using MF film I threw away at least 25% of the frames I took, and put another 60% minimum , still in strips, in albums and put them in my attic, literally never to be seen again. If we move they'll be in the skip.

I find both the process and the result of getting rid of images cathartic. I like my collections a whole lot better when they are of manageable size and the good stuff isn't smothered by piles of rubbish. I like what I've done on a trip much, much better after I've got rid of the worst. And btw I don't junk stuff because I'm hugely prolific- 100-150 shutter presses a day is a really big day for me on a trip geared around getting pictures; but I still get enough duplication or( in retrospect) bad pictures to throw a large proportion away. I really struggle to understand the thought processes of people who think that everything they do is of value, might be of value, or relish searching endlessly through a back catalogue to find an photograph they didn't much like first time . Its hard enough to choose between the 10-20% that I quite like without expanding that universe & reminding myself that most photographs- mine and other people's- are junk.