The way you put it, reserving higher star rating for the future, I can really relate to. As my time available for photographing is slowly decreasing for every year, but I still really enjoy carrying my camera around and I do take more photos with a higher keep-rate, the culling and star-rating process need some attention. I get encouraged I’m on the right track by watching this great video. With regard to my mobile backup, I dump it once I transfer those files to my desktop Drobo which is backed up to local drives as well as BackBlaze in the cloud. 🙂 I’m trying to get back to that film way of doing things. Someday I might go back and look through the unmarked ones again (or not). If I’m done editing a folder and I’m satisfied, then I dump the ones marked for deletion and call it good. If I don’t get what I need from the 2 stars, I look to the 1s (and rarely the unmarked). What I now do is leave those I really can’t immediately decide on unmarked, flag what I think is junk for deletion (and filter to hide them) and mark the 1 and 2 stars. For some reason we want more from our digital files and it’s harder to scrap.
You shot 36 and on a good roll you kept 10. 🙂 I remember in the film days just tossing slides off the light table that weren’t just right. Thanks for the kind words Neil! I’ve come to this over a long painful process myself, and I have scads of folders over decades that beg for this treatment too. I’ll try and carry your method in mind next time I have a large batch of images and see if I can be more “disciplined!”. And it becomes a chore to go back through years of old images to cull. Still, in my process, I have that backup, but I never seem to finish the cull, as you said.
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Then I feel more comfortable that I have a complete archive of the originals.
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Do you just delete the whole backup set when your edited set makes it home safely? In my own process, I wouldn’t delete anything until I backed up the full set to Blue-Ray BD (or DVD) discs. One thing that I noted here that I liked but went unmentioned so I’ll call it out…you never culled or deleted your backup copy you made when importing. I end up with about a 1TB or even a bit more per year of photos (and I only have a 24mp camera). While that easily lets me go back and find more that I liked, it leaves me with a lot of photos. You nailed it too in terms of my biggest problem…I am more likely to skim through the batch, pick the ones I like, and start editing. I like your 1 and 2 star approach as well for years, unfortunately, I’ve basically used the whole gammut from 1 to 5, where anything below 3 is probably a delete–but that’s for later! You are deleting in the first pass, and I like that, because in retrospect, I accumulate too many photos and then it’s a continuing problem to go through and later cull. Especially when you have two very similar photos that you can’t eliminate based on composition. That takes the most time (especially in LR). I feel I can’t mark a photo deleted unless I zoom in and check absolute sharpness of my subject. It’s information I look for all the time to try to streamline my process, which I’ll say is still painful.
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