Hi Everyone,
I started offering photography services to my immediate circle for their art projects, modeling endeavors, etc. I am new to this starting only earlier this year.
The question I have for seasoned professionals and semi professionals is: do you keep ALL the photos you take of a given shoot? For example, I shot my friend, and we took maybe 500+ photos during the shoot. We sat down together another day and identified like 60 that she wants sent to her of that shoot (no edits, she’s doing that herself/outsourcing it).
The question is: what the heck do I do with the other 440 photos? I have like 15TB of space, so I can keep all the shots with no issue, but this surely isn’t sustainable forever. I come from an Engineering background where archiving files is the gospel (where I may need access to any given revision at any instant) but this might not be the case once my initial 60 “keepers” were identified and sent.
Thoughts and feedback?
I know a lot of people keep raw files forever but I trash them after a couple of months - six, tops - unless it’s something I REALLY think I’ll revisit. I never go back and look at them, so they’re just clutter for me, and when there are too many I get overwhelmed when I need to find something and have to weed through thousands of images.
I keep the jpgs I delivered and that is it