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?

  • 0000GKP@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    have like 15TB of space, so I can keep all the shots with no issue, but this surely isn’t sustainable forever.

    I have 35TB of storage, 100,000 pictures on the drives, and probably room for that many more. I was tempted last year to go back and delete all non-delivered pictures from all projects more than 10 years old, but that seems like such a hassle. It’s easier to spend another $150 on a new drive.