3000 photos. One mans dream is another’s nightmare.

I think it's a dream if you know your aim at the onset is to get 2-5 good shots out of it, so you know you're going to quickly go through and delete almost every photo. Just scan the whole thing and see if there are any that are great.

If you're undisciplined and only delete the obviously bad ones, and end up with 1800 photos that you think you'll look through at some point, well then you have a pile of junk you're never going to look at again.

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PaulHoule 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I do events for the Finger Lakes Runners Club which I look at like "Space Mountain", you paid admission so you should get at least one good pic, at this event there were a total of 1000 volunteers and runners and I think I got about 600

https://www.behance.net/gallery/232159469/Skunk-Cabbage-Run-...

mainly camped at the finish line. I went to a double-header basketball game of men and women Aug 31 and finally got around to developing it last week and got maybe 400 images that I processed with DxO, that is part of a program of building up a stock of images so I can always be posting them to social media. All of those are "good enough" but yeah the best 40 or best 4 of those are better. If I was selling pictures to the local paper I'd be selling 1 to 3 per game. My secret weapon for going through huge numbers of photos is an XBOX controller and

https://keysticks.net/

so I can push a couch up near the computer and sit back and grade photos quickly. I hear some pros shoot 10,000 images at soccer games. I regularly spend more time processing images from an event than I spend at the event.

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the_af 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> and end up with 1800 photos

I suffer from this when taking photographs of my daughter. I suppose every parent does. And the end result IS that I end up with a pile of photos I'll never look at again.

"I should delete 99% of these photos I took from her birthday. But she looks so cute in this one! Oh, and this one! Which is a minor variation of the other one. But I could never delete it."

I'm much more inclined to delete redundant photos of nature, landscapes, etc, but then again -- since they are static -- I also tend to take fewer of those to begin with!

	▲	SamBam 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Fully agree, as a parent. I used to set goals for myself during my train commutes, to try and delete 100 pictures during my half-hour ride, but I didn't keep it up long enough to really make a dent.

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squidsoup 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like a nightmare. My cameras gives me 10 exposures. I think about them carefully.