Deleting photos

Good Morning,

Sorry it has been a while. School is out and 2 kids are time consuming. Today is just a tip for a pain in the but process I have been dealing with. I have had many times where I took way more pictures than needed to get the shot that I wanted to capture. Like blowing out candles during a birthday party, hitting the ball  during a game, a first kiss during a wedding, etc... Taking a plethora of pictures in this day and age is easy. It is also easy to let a few days build up then a few weeks then a month or two and if you are not careful it can turn into a year or more. In years 2014 and 2015 I took over 13000 pictures each year. Realistically at most about half of those were good quality, in focus, and not a near duplicate image. That brings it down to 7500 each year. While spending hours going through and deleting these I realized that it would have been easier to go through them after uploading. With our megapixels increasing hard drive space becomes limited, a 2 gb card will hold around 115 raw files from a 16mp camera or 57.5/GB. One terabyte would only hold around 58,000-59,000 of those same files. 16mp isn't even a large image size either anymore, a quick search showed a 50mp camera from Canon. My advice here is to delete the photos that aren't your best after uploading them. It takes a few minutes and give you time to enjoy your photos. If it becomes a habit then you don't have to look through thousands of photos all at one time because you are running out of storage space.

These two images were taken 1 second apart and there were 3 captures between these images and about 20 captures total. I kept five or around a quarter. Delete, free up some space, grab your camera then go out and shoot.

~Scott

Magazines

Good evening,

Magazines are a common item to acquire and they often have a useful article or two in each edition. Now keeping a magazine for one article is a little much. Unless we are collecting them to keep in pristine condition as a collectable or because one has been featured in it. Most of the time that is not the case though. I am going to pass on what I do so I don't have stacks and stacks of magazines all over the house.

I took a 3 ring binder and some letter size sleet protectors. I then cut out the articles that I want to keep, staple them together, then recycle the rest of the magazine. Most of it is just advertisements. For the same size as 5 mags we could have about 10 pages worth of articles (and that is being generous most of the time it is 5 pages) from 25 editions or over 2 years worth a monthly subscription.

A 3 ring binder and some sheet protectors

Granted most articles are online now so they could be saved on the computer or cloud and that is fine. Magazines are still being printed so people are still buying them and storing them too. This post wasn't really about photography directly. I just got a copy of a magazine and thought that I would share my storage process with you all. So take the previous information and go out and shoot.

~Scott