Do You Save Bad Photos?


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  1. 1. Do you Save Blurry or Out of Focus Photos?

    • Yes
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    • No
      18
    • Depends How Bad
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So not all the photos you take are going to be good, but do you save those that are blurry or out of focus?

At the moment, I do, but since starting to shoot in RAW then I have realised they are starting to take up space on my tiny hard drive.

Just wondering what other peoples thoughts are on the matter.

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It depends how bad the photo is.

If it's just a grey smudge I will delete it, but everything else gets categorised into two folders: 'Facebook Worthy' and 'Non Facebook Worthy'. :p

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Posting pics on Facebook... Why?

What happened to cataloging on PC and sharing it through Flickr to only a few friends than allow every friend on Facebook access your photos?

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If the photo is blurry or out of focus, then it's a no-no (N).

But if it's "bad" as in composition and such, I still save it, but I know the day will come when I'll go through all these photos and delete them :D

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Posting pics on Facebook... Why?

What happened to cataloging on PC and sharing it through Flickr to only a few friends than allow every friend on Facebook access your photos?

Manage your friends lists for access rights? :p

Anything I put on Facebook Photowise I dont really have a problem sharing.. to be honest

I do more or less delete most of the blurry/out of focus pictures unless they are really worthy..

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Most of them I keep which are recognizable later when i saw ....... other i delete them while transferring to PC

i use picasa very good to manage PIC

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Usually I keep everything on the camera that I take (unless I run out of room on my memory card), then I'll transfer everything to my laptop, and get rid of most of the terrible ones then. I still have quite a few bad ones on here though, I'm just too lazy to sort them out lol

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If I take an out of focus photo it's on purpose since I have an Autofocus motor on my camera lenses. So yeah, I save them.

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If I take an out of focus photo it's on purpose since I have an Autofocus motor on my camera lenses. So yeah, I save them.

Autofocus combined with user error can still produce out of focus photos (bad lighting, fast movement, focusing on unwanted point, wrong focus point selection, etc)

Actually If I want 100% precious focus of my critical shots I use a tripod+Life View on LCD+magnification, then manual focus :D

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Autofocus can still produce out of focus photos (bad lighting, fast movement, focusing on unwanted point, wrong focus point selection, etc)

Actually If I want 100% precious focus of my critical shots I use a tripod+Life View on LCD+magnification, then manual focus :D

I know, but I was just using that as an excuse for my OCD complex when it comes to perfect photography.

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If it's hideously underexposed (completely black) or overexposed (completely white), or *really* out of focus, I delete it. Usually delete it in camera before even downloading to my PC. If its just poor composition or a bad angle or whatever then I keep it - hard drive space is really cheap and who knows, might want stuff...someday.

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Posting pics on Facebook... Why?

What happened to cataloging on PC and sharing it through Flickr to only a few friends than allow every friend on Facebook access your photos?

I only add Facebook friends I know and trust.

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I keep most things, and once a month (or so) I'll go through everything and kill any that I don't like.

I actually turned one really blurred photo (accidentally blurred) into something cool while messing with Photoshop - just being blurred doesn't mean it can't be something good.

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I don't delete anything. My camera screen is too small to make any decisions like that - so I wait to upload them. Storage is cheap now-days, so I keep everything.

I know I've looked back on stuff I've initially hated, and fell in love with it. Sometimes it just takes a fresh day to realise something :D

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I know I've looked back on stuff I've initially hated, and fell in love with it. Sometimes it just takes a fresh day to realise something :D

Exactly (Y). I do the same every once in a while.

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I keep everything I take.

Im close to filling a 250GB hard drive with pictures. I need to get a new one shortly, ill probably go with a 500 or 1TB depending on cost.

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I will remove the bad photos once I view screen them on the computer, then of course I keep the good photos and convert them from RAW to JPG, sort them as such:

2008

-06 - June

--10

---JPG photos

---RAW photos

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For the most part, yes, I keep my images. The ones that don't meet my personal standards of putting on the web, in a portfolio, or even putting my name on are potential money makers in the stock industry. :shiftyninja:

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Well, I have decided to delete some of them. Its not like I am ever really going to go through them, so I will delete some of the really bad ones and keep some of the nicer bad ones.

Thanks

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