Purge Rejects
I used to keep every photo I took. Every. Single. One. Then, disk space became a consideration. Sure, it’s “free” on a per-image basis. But over 4TB later, well, it’s not so free. It’s cheap. But not free. It’s certainly not free from a backup, archival, or mental housekeeping point of view.
These days, I purge all the rejects. Out of focus shots. Test shots. Shots where the subject’s eyes are closed. Images that you’d never show your grandma, much less the public. Sure, it’s easy enough to say, “Maybe I can do something with that image someday” and convince yourself to keep it. But you’re lying to yourself. Grow a pair and delete them out of your life.
I suppose the sensible thing is to process all the RAWs into some other (compressed) format and then purge those too.
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