How are you deleting photos from the card?
I'm just not confident enough yet to not look at my screen after every couple of shots.
"The most endangered species? The honest man!"
John37 wrote: I'm surprized more people aren't deleting on the field. I'm (proudly) a chimp'er! I'll delete the obvious OOF shots right then and there. I know some frown on chimping. But at this point I'd rather look like an amateur and chimp, then not check my screen and get home to find all my shots suck!
I'm just not confident enough yet to not look at my screen after every couple of shots.
I use my eyeballs in the process of creating visual art all the time. It works well for me when I am drawing, painting, and sculpting. I am thrilled that I can do it with photography now too.
Chimping has no bearing on how I edit photos or manage data. I always have plenty of memory with me, so space is never an issue. I don't delete in the field because I want to do my editing on a monitor. My current cameras have nice LCDs, but they aren't good enough for me to determine if something is slightly OOF or not. I have to look at it on the big screen. Also I've had more than a few shots that I didn't think were working out when I first viewed them on the LCD screen. Later they turned out to be the main ones I went with. I'm a better editor when I give myself time and a big screen.
As for obvious screw-ups, they already took up too much of my valuable shooting time. I'm not going to lose even a second more to them.
It's been common advice from my mentors and teachers in creative fields from writing to art to not make snap judgements about my work. Put it away for a while (sometimes years). Give it some time. Revisit it later. Your own opinion can change. It's easy to delete whenever. It can be hard or impossible to recover deleted files if you change your mind. I also find there is at least a little educational value in looking at my old photos even if I now I'm thinking "Peeeee-yoooooo! This stinks!"
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