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Originally Posted by Chris Gohlke
But the blurry one is better lit. Ideally, I should fix up the clear one the best I can and delete the blurry one.
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Right! Something this is what you want to keep to remember that memory:
One good photo, not two that are almost the same. The idea of "I'll just keep 'em all" encourages you to not think about which are the best and tweak them to make them even better.
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Originally Posted by Chris Gohlke
I would imagine the same thing that makes someone a packrat with physical items would impact their digital photos as well. The effect might even be greater because there is essentially no cost to keeping everything versus the risk (however unfounded) of tossing something that you would wish you had kept.
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Absolutely! I think, though, that there is a cost, it's not not apparent. It's not storage - hard drives are insanely cheap. I think the real cost may be more related to time and future generations. So here's what I mean by that: let's say you add 2000 digital photos to your collection every year, but you don't cull/correct them. You just amass them. 20 years from now, when you look back on those memories, do you want to have to sort through 40,000 images, half of which are meaningless? Or would you rather have a collection of images that are easier to manage, share, view, etc.?
Also, what about sharing them with future generations? It's the difference between my grandmother giving me shoeboxes full of 5000 images, or her giving me photo albums of the 500 important images. I almost feel like I have an obligation to the future to keep my own history somewhat entertaining. ;-)
I'm realizing also that a huge part of this issue is the psychology of organization that a person has. Myself, I'm fairly "Type A" and like to have things organized. I like having my DVDs alphabetized, my MP3s tagged with proper metadata, and my digital photos organized. If someone reading this doesn't organize other aspects of their life, the concept of organizing digital photos is probably completely alien to them and this article is likely useless. :lol: