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?

  • TinfoilCamera@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Paid Gig: Forever

    The culled shots are already gone, I not only don’t keep them, as far as I’m concerned they Never Happened in the first place.

    But anything else? I’ll eventually convert the RAW to DNG for long term storage to save space but otherwise there’s no real reason to delete anything.

    Copy #1 on my workstation. Copy #2 is backed up to my NAS, and Copy #3 is on CrashPlan off-site.