How do you decide which are your best photos?

8 years 5 months ago #462431 by Greg Friedman
I know, hard drive space is cheap these days.  I've set up a folder on my Mac for my best photos, the rest I'm saving on external hard drives.  What I struggle with is picking my best ones out.  Sometimes with me it's a delayed "nope" that one doesn't belong here.  

It's idle processes of the old squash above my shoulders.  Just curious how others are going about this?


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8 years 5 months ago #462488 by Conner
I have a ranking system 1-5.  Only the 5's move on and stick around in my favorite folder


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8 years 5 months ago #462510 by KENT MELTON
In Lightroom with the stars


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8 years 5 months ago #462511 by KENT MELTON
In Lightroom with the stars, it's based on what pushes my buttons that day


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8 years 5 months ago #462540 by Joves
I just look at them. I never look at my photos on the day or hell even the month I sot them for the most part. I like being far removed from my mindset that day. That is the beauty of not doing it for a living. :lol:


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8 years 5 months ago #462544 by effron

Joves wrote: I just look at them. I never look at my photos on the day or hell even the month I shot them for the most part. I like being far removed from my mindset that day. That is the beauty of not doing it for a living. :lol:


Agree with this. I cull the out of focus and obviously junk shots after download to computer, and the near repeats. I won't do a second cull until I do a second hard drive save, usually months later. There are times I didn't notice a good one, and much time later, I processed and printed it. I also am rarely in a hurry to process....

Why so serious?
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8 years 5 months ago #462553 by stuartsbarbie
I, like effron, get rid of the out of focus, the doubles, the o crap why did I shot that, and any others I just don't like.  Then in Lightroom I compare the ones that look similar side by side and get rid of the "worst" of them.  I will save an iffy one if it is the only one of that subject. (cause I usually can't go back and get another one).  Then I come back in a couple of weeks and look at them again.

It is like house clutter, if ya ain't gonna use it, haven't looked at it in 5 years, or just don't like it anymore, get rid of it.


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8 years 5 months ago #462583 by Chris Briggs

Joves wrote: I just look at them. I never look at my photos on the day or hell even the month I sot them for the most part. I like being far removed from my mindset that day. That is the beauty of not doing it for a living. :lol:



Agree, this gives you a clean slate to work with


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8 years 5 months ago #462730 by Zeberk
I'm in Lightroom too, and will go back and forth with photos from the same day.  I'll make it a point to select one best from the shoot and the rest get stored in away.


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8 years 5 months ago #462944 by KZAM
Frankly, I just pick which looks best for me.  Generally out of each shoot, I'll pick my favorite 3 and index the rest.  

I don't need no stink'in Signature! ha ha ha
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8 years 5 months ago #462947 by Hassner
Luckily my first job was with a newspaper in film days.
No time to think. Clip the film on the lightbox as soon as it is dry, into the darkroom and print.
Today I delete 40-60% and process about 20% of what is left.
I keep the 80% unprocessed RAW, but rarely process any more when I go back to them again.
Everything is saved on three external drives. I keep the last six months shoots on my laptop in case I need to retrieve any while on the move.


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