Post #426,614
12/5/18 10:38:04 AM
12/5/18 10:38:04 AM
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I am an outlier.
I curate my pictures. If I take a couple or three dozen photos at a gig*, for example, I will end up keeping perhaps two or three. My "camera roll" directory (I've had "upload to OneDrive" turned on forever) has 1,417 pictures in it, going back four years. I really don't understand keeping ten pictures all of the same thing, from fractionally different angles. If you've got TB of photos, you're literally only going to look at a tiny fraction.
I am aware that I'm very much in the minority here**.
That said, if you (royal "you") put a post on FB that says "drook added 150 pictures to the album 'pavements, sidewalks and other concrete flooring structures'", that's a pretty good way to ensure that I will never look at any of them.
[teach the controversy!]Stop taking pictures, you fuckers! Enjoy things! Experience things! Remember things! If you must take a photo, take ONE or perhaps TWO! Not everything needs to be recorded forever![/teach the controversy] *I'm increasingly not taking pictures at gigs at all. I certainly didn't take any band shots at the recent Slayer gig, despite it being their farewell tour. Beardy selfie with mates, etc. and that was it.
**I'm not a packrat for anything, digital or corporeal
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Post #426,617
12/5/18 11:27:11 AM
12/5/18 11:27:11 AM
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We select about a dozen from the pictures we take each month
And send those in a nicely formatted fashion (on good photo paper) to the various relatives, accompanied by a letter explaining what we've been up to and why those photos are significant.
I have a lot of dross in my photo collection mainly because I can't be bothered to sort through them. Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #426,619
12/5/18 12:39:47 PM
12/5/18 12:39:47 PM
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When I was younger if it didn't fit in a backpack I didn't need it
Now if it doesn't fit in the RV I don't need it. Good thing the 55" tv fits "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #426,621
12/5/18 1:18:58 PM
12/5/18 1:18:58 PM
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Yeah, I know
A lot of the volume - I would guess about half - is video. That still means $way_too_many pics. I need a methodical way to prune the pile, or no one will ever look at any of it.
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Post #426,628
12/5/18 3:51:07 PM
12/5/18 3:51:07 PM
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Videos are a killer on storage for sure.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #426,623
12/5/18 2:21:08 PM
12/5/18 2:21:08 PM
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When I made my er, shape-shifting change,
My rule became: it all must fit within a car-trunk/ not a 2 tonne van.
This worked for n-years, just fine (myTee Vee was the bitchin 5" Sony Trinitron, a marvel of its type-and-time
--up close it is ~ a kodachrome slide. (Useless now, natch. and the sucker weighed ~18 pounds-not-Sterling.)
Alas, with this plot to maintain and remaining techno labelled test-gear ... then there are Books..
well, you know..
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Post #426,634
12/5/18 9:12:53 PM
12/5/18 9:12:53 PM
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You're not an outlier.
My photo taking is also highly selective. On trips they are usually reminders of memory, not replacements. It means slideshows for friends need commentary. :-)
I remember when I visited New York there was at least one whole afternoon I put the camera away because I got sick of looking at the place through a camera lens.
Wade.
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Post #426,636
12/6/18 7:24:00 AM
12/6/18 7:24:00 AM
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When it's me and the wife I do that
It's when we're doing something with the kids that I get shutter diarrhea, so I can show Grandma when we get home. I just need to start pruning the collection after showing her.
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