Comments on: Don’t Delete Your Digital Photography Mistakes Too Quickly

By: Baseball Bat Reviews

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By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:05:47 +0000

I thought I took a lot of pictures, some of you have me beat by a lot. I think I took 1500 one day on vacation to the Blue Ridge Mountains. the most I’ve taken since, in a single day, was 655. I never delete until I get them home in my computer where I can make some kind of judgment.

the truly bad can be worked into some fantastic digital images when massaged with my Serif and Ulead photo programs. (Yes, I use 4 sometimes when one program won’t do what another will, or not as easily.) I own an old version of photoshop but it’s only on disc and not in my computer anymore.

Some results can be seen in my DigitalM gallery at imagekind.

I do a LOT of weeding. My old mind cannot keep up with settings and most of my images are ’snap shots’, seldom posed or even the time to pose them.

By: Tracy Fanslow

Tracy Fanslow — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:19:22 +0000

Great reminder. I all too often unnecessarily delete stuff off if I’m out and about and bored. I have a 16GB card, so I haven’t even run into any space issues just being out for the day. I will save all shots until I get back to the big screen from now on! Thanks!

By: Lu

Lu — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:57:30 +0000

I couldn’t agree more about waiting to delete photos, for a couple of other reasons. I am an “amateur photoshopper”. I create a lot of collages. Some of the “bad shots”, especially of colorful things like flowers/scenery, sometimes make great backgrounds for photos when a filter/blur is added to them and a gradient placed over them.

That being said, people have looked at me very weirdly, as I have taken pictures of brick walls, empty swimming pools, plain green grass, sand on a baseball diamond, and shadows of trees on a sidewalk. You never know what might make a great “texture” for a portrait background.

Also, some pictures that I think are blurred when I look at that little LCD screen are sometimes “out of focus” because my forehead has left sweaty, oily marks on the screen and turn out to be in focus after all.

By: LifeSparkle

LifeSparkle — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:48:35 +0000

I’ve kept reject digital photos from the “olden days”. As technology moved along, some were able to be fixed in the newer programs. I have also done this with audio files and have been delighted that my patience has paid off.

By: Mayur Channagere

Mayur Channagere — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:26:56 +0000

I absolutely agree with you on this … I used to delete images based on the quality I see on the view finder … but only to realize that few images that I thought were good actually turned out to be bad & There have been instences were it was the other way around.
Now I keep all the images and carry extra memory cards on long trips.
I know this is slightly off the topic but, I have also realized with the ease / cost effectiveness of digital we tend to go trigger happy … I can always delete right?
On the contrary I feel if you get selective about what to shoot more thought will go into the image composition and will definitely improve your output.

By: Tim Griscom

Tim Griscom — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:19:50 +0000

Two photos, which I initially planned to delete, won first and third place in a photo contest. The lens flare enhanced the photo rather than detracted from it, and the high contrast and the position of the sun made the photos.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:50:42 +0000

I agree whole-heartedly. I still have many images that I just won’t let go of. Some for different reasons (saved to use later for creative incentives, etc . . . ). Also, sometimes a photo not quite in focus can be processed through a paint program (Essentials for example) and create quite a pleasing result. Also, with today’s memory cards you can get a slew of photos on one. I’m not a pro, so I don’t shoot thousands or even hundreds (dare I even say tens) of photos a day, so I’d rather wait to delete (if ever).

By: Ian Seddon

Ian Seddon — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:54:01 +0000

I learned NEVER to delete anything while on a shoot, as you can’t really judge from a 2.5″ screen what’s in the shot, invest in some extra memory cards and a portable disk backup device.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:36:01 +0000

I am most definitely with the “not to delete” crowd on this one. If for nothing more than, it takes too much time to do in the field. I like to shoot landscapes primarily, and it can be tempting to delete the ones that “look the same”, but with a 42″ monitor you can see everything. The point made in one of the other comments is perhaps the best reason: you can fix most problems in post….. unless you erase it first. The only bad shot is the one you don’t take, and deleting it before you can really “see” it is the same thing. Every shot has something to be learned from it