Recently I've been trying to get more into photography, at some point in the near future I'd like to pick up a DSLR and a few lenses, but before that point I'm trying to learn as much about it as I can about the hobby.
Part of that is editing and optimizing photos, and general photo management. I tried to centralizie all my digital photos, and came to realize at best guess have almost 7000 pictures, totaling 14GB. I don't feel I take a lot of photos, have only had a digital camera since 2006, don't have a camera phone, and generally look with contempt towards people who think themselves in a mirror, food, or pictures of a group of feet are photo-worthy. (I guess it's only 1k photos/yr, and you can easily shoot 100+ on a day trip, but still)
I've been going through a lot of them, and realized a fair number are garbage shots, or not even oriented correctly for viewing.
This begs the question, if I couldn't even be bothered to go through a lot of them once to take out the obvious duds and orient them properly for showing off, what was the point of the photo? Or the rest of the ones which are good?
So what do you guys do with your photos? Make prints of the good ones and hang them? Do you actually go through them after each day taking pics and optimize them? Just show them to girls when you want to subtley show off? Or just look at them on your own when you want to go down memory lane? Or do you just hoard them on your card until it's almost full, then offload them onto your computer?
Part of that is editing and optimizing photos, and general photo management. I tried to centralizie all my digital photos, and came to realize at best guess have almost 7000 pictures, totaling 14GB. I don't feel I take a lot of photos, have only had a digital camera since 2006, don't have a camera phone, and generally look with contempt towards people who think themselves in a mirror, food, or pictures of a group of feet are photo-worthy. (I guess it's only 1k photos/yr, and you can easily shoot 100+ on a day trip, but still)
I've been going through a lot of them, and realized a fair number are garbage shots, or not even oriented correctly for viewing.
This begs the question, if I couldn't even be bothered to go through a lot of them once to take out the obvious duds and orient them properly for showing off, what was the point of the photo? Or the rest of the ones which are good?
So what do you guys do with your photos? Make prints of the good ones and hang them? Do you actually go through them after each day taking pics and optimize them? Just show them to girls when you want to subtley show off? Or just look at them on your own when you want to go down memory lane? Or do you just hoard them on your card until it's almost full, then offload them onto your computer?