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?

  • Cat_Noms_3489@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Heck yeah!

    I don’t delete anything, except if I can in camera I catch blurry or blinking photos. Generally I keep everything. I buy a hard drive about every 9 months or so depending on how much I’m shooting. I keep RAW photos from everything even weddings where I take 3000+ images. Keep it all because you never know what will happen in the future.