![]() They’ve got three main options: increase the tiers, add some straightforward, assisted way to cull photos, or add an archive facility. Keeping the top tier at 2TB with no option for more will be untenable for Apple. Over time, if the storage tiers stay constant, people’s photos and videos will inevitably rise to meet those limits. I’m glad for it, but also just a little put off that I didn’t get one more week for personal projects. I was interrupted by a phone call summoning me back to work this week. I even started on it as I watched the rain fall. You know what they say about how to make God laugh? Yesterday, I informed a close friend of my intention to tackle this project in the coming week. (In the meantime, Fuji please share your compressed raw recipe with Apple.) I’d have very little need for raw if this came to pass. I’m also hoping that camera makers will make HEIC native. (The film simulations in my new camera ease this decision.) I will use raw for a session, especially if I think there will extensive retouching or if the light is challenging and I doubt my ability to nail the exposure, but mostly I’m going to capture it in camera or miss the shot. I’m also reducing the data inflow by mostly shooting JPG for day-to-day photowalks. (Do I really need Yellow Defender in the Woods #2,763 from the 1996 OVLR Birthday bash? Granted it’s beautifully composed and immaculately exposed but does it truly bring me joy? I will render a high quality JPEG image of the survivors and trash the raw files along with the rejects.Īs file sizes grow I am seriously contemplating moving the time at which I dispose of raw files (for 3 star) forward. After that period those threes (including sentimental value handicap) will be re-evaluated with an eye towards culling those deemed unimportant. I’ll keep three star and better for the past decade. I do try, and sometimes succeed to cull genuine mis-shots on intake. I’ll keep (almost) everything from the past five years. I haven’t defined the timeline yet but in essence my approach will be the older an image is the more rigorous the standard of excellence/appeal/sentimentality will be applied to it. Once again a scaled approach is called for. This has softened my resolve to delete images in the past. That being said there is a school that condones a save everything policy. I can make a fast pass through a years images in an evening. It’s a big project, but I have an editor’s eye and a very fast trigger finger when it comes to “crap”. Much of my earlier work was shot on film or transparency film and only a very small number of those images have been (or will be) scanned to digital. ![]() The older an image is, the more “cullings” it has already survived. When it comes to reviewing my back catalog, I won’t be starting completely from scratch. I’m back to doing a fast edit on intake and killing bad shots right away. The recent addition of RawPower to my workflow has me (finally) committing to the iCloud lPhotos Library and I’m rededicating myself to the task of proper archiving. I wasn’t enjoying my archiving process so I was mostly dumping images, first into Lightroom and then Photos, pulling the selects for post processing/printing/distribution, and ignoring the rest. This was particularly true for the period when I was struggling to develop a post-Aperture workflow. If I didn’t I’d already be pushing, if not exceeding the 2TB mark. Your better practice is a discipline that I often preach and do my best to practice. You’re correct in saying that curating a large back catalog takes time, but it’s nowhere close to forever. Maybe a shared gallery so I only have to staff it one weekend a month. I am half heartedly looking for a gallery/studio space but I’m not sure I’m ready to give up my weekends. but I don’t make my living shooting photographs on a daily basis. (Maybe a Prosumer?) I’m a pro In the sense that I have been paid for my work, published, etc.
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