You should never ever ever store every shot you take. Your job as a photographer is to delete 95-99% of the shots. Select the best, delete the rest.
The exception to that is the commercial client photos, but that's not what he is talking about.
If you're going to save 275GB of photos per trip, it's guaranteed you will never look through them again. Look at his photos - I don't see a single shot I would have saved (well maybe the fisheye one from Hawaii). He has 3-4 nearly identical copies of each shot. Tons of boring stuff.
I keep everything, cull down to the best and post those online. I still like to keep the original set. Maybe down the line I'll be more rigorous here but sometimes I will make little movies out of every individual still, so that's where it comes in handy:
Yep, makes for an online gallery that isn't any fun to look at.
Perhaps common sense, but I recommend remembering to print photos (say 4x6") you really care about (works especially if you lose your backup) and also hang some of the stuff you really care about it (because you're unlikely to look at them electronically).
Take advantage of your walls, if you have a event decent camera, seeing your stuff 10x14, 16x20 or even 20x30 is also exceptionally worth it.
I agree 100%. Printing your photos really helps elicit a more visceral response. That said, what is mpix? I looked at it, but it wanted me to go through an approval process to create and account to see the prices.
As for posting the online galleries - oh I absolutely ruthlessly cull! You should take a look at some of my travel sets: http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/ :)
If a photographer is deleting 95-99% of the images that he takes, that photographer should either take fewer images or improve his skills. I know and travel with a number of serious amateur and professional photographers (not shooting for clients, but shooting on spec for images that they hope to sell) and they delete very few, if any. First, the technical and artistic quality is good to begin with. Second, the time required to do so can be better spent on post-processing or shooting more subjects.
So this may be true. But if it is it is still a skill that is not widely held. So there is either a need for a simple-to-use curation utility, or an inexpensive curation service. I don't have a specific idea how to create or implement this, but I think there is a market for it
You should never ever ever store every shot you take. Your job as a photographer is to delete 95-99% of the shots. Select the best, delete the rest.
The exception to that is the commercial client photos, but that's not what he is talking about.
If you're going to save 275GB of photos per trip, it's guaranteed you will never look through them again. Look at his photos - I don't see a single shot I would have saved (well maybe the fisheye one from Hawaii). He has 3-4 nearly identical copies of each shot. Tons of boring stuff.