[Leica] Editing

[Tina Manley]

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.
>
>
>
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