[Leica] Editing

[Brian Reid]

My solution to this problem is that most of the pictures I take are 
terrible and it is easy to identify them tell that they need to be 
deleted. Your problem is that most of your photos are wonderful, which 
makes these decisions much harder.

On 2019-07-30 15:35, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> 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.
> 
> TIA
> 
> TIna