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Delete one photo, throw away one item and it's the one thing you absolutely need tomorrow... one of the first things I learned in business is never keep anything that you can recreate, keep a clean desk, and let the secretary do the filing.
During spring break one year at college a bunch of us drove down to NOLA to enjoy a little French Quarter entertainment... it was great, except that there was no film in the camera ; ) and system failure aside, why is it that in advanced years it's the short term memory that sometimes fails...
Good post Mike... and I would also never think of changing my photo archive "solution"
Casey
Why do we KEEP photographs
Following on from TheMadDruid's question earlier... Why do we keep boxes of slides, negatives, prints, and the digital equivalent. It's too complicated; I have some deep-seated need that I can't resolve when I think of deleting more than a few fuzzy images;
my wife says "Dump 50,000 -- it won't change your life"
my friend Steve says "When my house burned down, I lost all of them; I lost a part of me that I'll never get back"
Sigh.
Cazalea
(Yes, I am stuck in Aperture, and Yes, I am well backed up)
Why we collect photographs is a good follow-on point...
Is more better than less, and have we really lost what "goes away"... it's easy to do a quick deep dive.
Delete one photo, throw away one item and it's the one thing you absolutely need tomorrow... one of the first things I learned in business is never keep anything that you can recreate, keep a clean desk, and let the secretary do the filing.
During spring break one year at college a bunch of us drove down to NOLA to enjoy a little French Quarter entertainment... it was great, except that there was no film in the camera ; ) and system failure aside, why is it that in advanced years it's the short term memory that sometimes fails...
Good post Mike... and I would also never think of changing my photo archive "solution"
Casey
I learned when doing my 1000 Whales in 1 Year project
- Always have spare charged battery(ies)
- Always have spare empty formatted card (or 3)
- Always back up your data on at least 2 different devices
- Never look at your pictures while you are still on the ocean (whale will pop up then)
I can also say that my prior life as a newspaper & book editor, manager and publisher impressed on me the importance of redundancy and backups, because as you know THE PAPER MUST GO OUT EVERY DAY
(or the digital equivalent)
Cheers,
Mike
collection of random pearls of wisdom
01) when traveling take your charger and clean underwear
02) there is nothing that requires an immediate reply
03) check it again and wait a day before sending a reply
04) when traveling for more than a week, take a backup camera
05) when changing lenses, try not to drop one of them...
06) always take a long lunch, nothing is that urgent
07) problems solve themselves if you wait long enough
08) give the man a banana imediately whenever he complains
09) choose a shutter speed to avoid blurr unless intentional
10) convert to b&w using the red channel when all else fails
11) always take the tripod, it makes you look professional
12) don't upgrade until there are no other options
13) eat well and do daily cardio exercise in moderation
14) read every day, preferably non-fiction
15) keep in regular contact with your friends
...
keep pictures
I keep many made pictures.
Sometimes i throw some pictures away.
Why i have so many, i have harddiscs.
Some of my pictures:
Sometimes i throw some pictures away.
Why i have so many, i have harddiscs.
Some of my pictures:
Nope, just an ABR, a Gerber, and P15 Zenith [nt]
I'm sure I have photos of them somewhere but they are on this site too. I don't save pictures of watches that I didn't take myself.
and the Purists ABR which came earlier but there was still inventory
Just search on P10 watch and the articles come up (best done on desktop and not on a phone):
Ok, just two others, from my collection of pictures...
The Montblanc,
The Chopard:
And the LUC Tribute, which is NOT a P 10 Watch, but a watch we could see during our IGOTT 2.
The Chopard:
And the LUC Tribute, which is NOT a P 10 Watch, but a watch we could see during our IGOTT 2.
The list with links
and the Purists ABR
As Casey said, don't keep things you can easily recreate
(and as a moderator, don't worry about things you can easily delete)
I have (coming up on) a century’s worth of prints.
Thousands. I can’t bring myself to throw any of them away. It would be throwing out history. At least that’s what goes through my mind every time I think it’s time.
My uncles about 85 and has a lifetime of negatives and prints
He has said anything about cleaning house ...
He collects photo postcards and I think was nearing 70,000 last time we talked about it.
He collects photo postcards and I think was nearing 70,000 last time we talked about it.
That was something I collected also, as a kid.
They’re all gone; with my baseball cards I suspect.
OK, in the last 2 days I have nuked about 5000 digital photos
not to mention all these:
I scanned in 2018 and tossed the prints and negatives; now I am tossing the picture of the pile of prints. Yahoo! I am not a Prisoner, I'm a free man.
Cazalea
Not quite, I've taken out 3000 more but keep finding interesting things
Like all these blue watches one day in the local dealer's "used" showcase
I used to delete on the fly in camera..
Up until the time I revisited a few and saw something else that I've never seen prior. From then on, i don't delete except for those times when I forget to take off the lens cap :p
More importantly though, if we were to use a roll of film as an analogy, it's probably an 80-20 thing where you only have a couple of keepers per roll. But the others, as crappy on the surface as they may seem, give those couple of keepers context. It could be a series of exposures for a scene. Or it could be various angles of one.
Note how it's so enjoyable to look at a roll rather than just that one nice picture in 24 or 36. They reinforce the memory of the day and that makes me think these throwaways can be just as important.
More importantly though, if we were to use a roll of film as an analogy, it's probably an 80-20 thing where you only have a couple of keepers per roll. But the others, as crappy on the surface as they may seem, give those couple of keepers context. It could be a series of exposures for a scene. Or it could be various angles of one.
Note how it's so enjoyable to look at a roll rather than just that one nice picture in 24 or 36. They reinforce the memory of the day and that makes me think these throwaways can be just as important.
I agree - having before/after as well as the “keeper” is wonderfu
As you says it gives the context and expands the memories
Cazalea
Cazalea