Landscape photography tip: Don't be afraid to delete

Sunday 31 January 2021, 16:32 by Nando Harmsen | 3,816 views | 1 comment

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It is easy to take lots of photos. We all do it. Different compositions, different exposures, different focal lengths.

But don't keep them all on your hard drive, and certainly don't show them all to the world. Don't be afraid to delete anything that isn't good.

Memory costs nothing. We often hear this phrase, and in principle it is true. A large hard drive can hold thousands and thousands of photos, whether they are in raw file format or the smaller jpeg format. This allows us to save and keep every photo we take.

When we take photos, we quickly end up with dozens or hundreds of images. Put your camera in burst mode and before you know it you have ten, twenty or more photos. Or you photograph a sunset where every second might produce an even better photo.

Give your photos a thorough clean-up regularly. Get rid of anything that isn't good, because you will never use it again.
Is it necessary to keep all those images? It is good to ask yourself this, because it is often enough to keep the best photo from each moment. One, two or at most three. Why keep the other twenty as well?

The chance that you will ever use those photos again is incredibly small. So why use these photos only as hard drive filler?

Especially because we keep taking photos all the time, and new ones are constantly being added, those photos that are almost good enough will disappear into the archive, lost and forgotten.

There is no need to keep all of these. Choose one, perhaps two, and delete the rest.
So don't be afraid to delete photos. Keep only the best ones, with perhaps two or three extras instead of all ten or twenty.

This prevents your collection from growing into a collection consisting mainly of duplicates, mediocre or even bad photos. You also save hard drive space, even though it is cheap.

De Landschapsbijbel, with 101 tips for splendid landscape photos

This tip is part of the book De Landschapsbijbel, in which I share 101 tips for splendid landscape photos. The book, full of beautiful photos, gives you all the information you need to start creating your own fantastic landscape photos.



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