I love our newest addition to the family. Our little niki. I took a walk with niki last night snapping some experiments and playing with things like aperture, shutter speed, lightening levels etc. The key word is "experiments". As with science, I think that the results of most of my experiments were crap and should be deleted. I mean, how many blurry pictures of ducks do I need?
As a self confessed digital packrat I find deleting anything very difficult. I'm working on it though. It's one thing to delete travel pictures, but it's another thing to delete shots that I took while walking in my neighbourhood. In any case, I think that I should be more selective with the pictures that I upload. I should probably be doing more post-processing (cropping, colour tweaks, etc) and just not upload everything. But when bandwidth and storage are effectively free, there is little incentive to be selective.
Instead of deleting the bad ones, you could "promote" the good ones. Keep everything, just make the good ones more obvious.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how I'd do that in fickr. Both Laura and I have "favourite" sets and for some things (our wedding) "best of" sets.
ReplyDeleteFlickr has an "interestingness" feature where they rank pictures by some algorithm - I think that it includes views, how many ppl have "favourited" your pic, tags, sets, groups... they patented it if you want to look it up.
Any suggestions on how to promote the "best of"?
Well, a first promotion step could be getting on Flickr in the first place. You can just put pics you like there, not every single photo you take. You can back up all of your photos somewhere other than the public Interwebs.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons why we've been using flickr has been as an off-site backup. Backing them up to flickr doesn't have to mean that they are on the public inter-tubes.... It's been nice that we can organize and share photos there, but I think that only recently other people have actually been looking at them. :-P
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I guess we can do is just hide all non-great photos if we only want to share "the best".
Maybe you should just put the good stuff up on flickr, and then find some other solution for backup. You could use Amazon S3. Granted Amazon S3 will cost you a little, but It could be worth it. Other options include rotating out a portable hard drive to some offsite location every week or two, to ensure you have a good backup of your data.
ReplyDeleteIf I am already paying for flickr, why would I pay for another off site backup?
ReplyDeleteI actually *do* pay for a webhost with unlimited bandwidth / space. But flickr is a lot cheaper at 25 USD / year. If I stop paying for flickr they won't delete anything. If I want to get access to everything again, I just have to upgrade my account to a "pro" again and I've got it all.
http://www.flickr.com/help/limits#73