Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Frank. The only purpose behind editing is to choose which photos might be used to make a difference. I have plenty of storage (just ordered another 10TB drive for the Drobo) and will not through any away. Like Gerry, I use the star system when I edit and put the 4 and 5 stars into a special folder to eventually post somewhere. The stock photos I take are used to create income. The family photos from Central America are used to try to make a difference. Thanks, Tina On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:48 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > It sounds to me like you wish to "throw away" the less good DIGITAL > images..... at least that is what I read into your question...... > consolidate, Maggie Steber, etc all indicate this.... > > The first question is ... Why? Why do you want to edit your images? Are > you being pushed by Almy to limit your Stock? Some other reason? > > Storage is so cheap, I can not see the thought of editing to save HDD space > as a really good idea..... HDD costs are now $20 per TB..... > Doing some quick math... your files are 20MB per image ( a pure > guess)...... > or 50 images to a GB.... > You have 400,000 images in 2 countries.... say half a million to make > things > easy.... That would be 10,000 GB.... > There are 1000 GB in a TB.... > The math says you have about 10TB in images..... for a total HDD cost of > $200. > Is it really worth your time to edit images whose cost to you is your time, > when you could be using that tine creating new images that would yield you > income? > > Is there something about editing that is important? That you NEED to do to > create income for yourself? > What would you do with the "good ones" that can not be done with ALL of > them? > > ITOD, you took your negatives and saved all of them ( ask Ted) .... Why > does Digital Imagery require the throwing away of images? > > Buy more and bigger HDD.... edit when you take the SD cards ( or other) and > transfer them into your computer..... and go take more Pix.... > > Don't worry about Marie Kondo and the KomMari Checklists..... if that is > what is driving the question..... > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > PESO: > > I am cleaning up old files on my Drobo and trying to consolidate > everything. Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks with Maggie Steber, a > photo editor, who helped me edit 50,000 of my Honduran photos down to about > 24. The problem is that I have many, many more than the original 50,000 > that she edited. According to my LR files, I have 174,258 photos of > Honduras. If I spend the rest of my life editing them I will not finish. > But just glancing through, it looks like there are a lot I would include in > a final edit. So what to do? Recently, I have been going back editing old > family photos of European trips. Should I stop that and work on Honduras? > I really am drawn to that because of their situation today. The same thing > applies to Guatemala. I have over 150,000 photos of Guatemala. If I edit > those, I will never get to any other countries. > > I think I have answered my own question but I would appreciate your > opinion, anyway. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html> *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>*