I'm not the most professional of the voices here, but I've done some family shots and some baby shots. I've been classifying my pictures into four groups.
I take a first pass and delete the majority of my shots (I hope to have this number fall and fall) as being flawed technically. Bad lighting, bad focus, flash didn't fire, really weird face, bad angle, whatever.
During that first pass I move out the ones I think are "good" into a folder I creatively call "First Pass". I move both ones I think I really good, and ones I think may capture something fun or sentimental. Like even if a picture isn't technically or compositionaly impressive, if the subject has a really natural laugh or something like that, or a tender expression, or whatever, I may toss it over.
Then I take a second pass to see if any jump out at me I may have missed.
This is the point I, in theory, delete all the extra junk ones. So far though I've been too paranoid to get rid of them, so I've got them hanging around forever.
Depending on how many made it into the First Pass folder, I'll either process all of them, or selectively process only the best ones. I've been then just doing quick color correction on the rest, scaling them to more web-album size, and dumping them into a zip file and giving that to the parents. Then I put only the best, fully processed ones out for public display/ordering through smugmug.
10 to 15 pictures an hour worth displaying is pretty accurate for me as well, but I haven't promised anyone anything! I usually get about 5 I love, 5 more I really like, 5 more I think are good enough to do something with, and then maybe another 20 that I think they may like enough to have as a screensaver or to send to grandma. With emotional events, like children or weddings, I'd personally want to give them the ones that weren't much more than snapshots for their memories, but I'd downsize them and I certainly wouldn't mark them with my logo (you know, when I HAVE a logo) or process them. They'd be, oh and here's some snapshots for you.
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Last edited by Mr Guy; 11-21-2008 at 03:05 PM.
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