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Unpopular Opinion: Culling Your Photos Takes Too Long Because You Take Too Many Photos.
Keep your shooting ratio under control.
Remember the good ole days of film photography? Inserting a roll, setting your ISO, shooting, winding it up, developing it, then taking the negatives, circling the numbers you wanted with a china marker, and making your prints in the darkroom? Mmmm. Stop bath.
Took a long ass time, didn’t it? But if you were meticulous enough in your workflow, you could select your snaps quickly and move on to processing your prints.
Digital media is a wonderful invention. Instead of carrying rolls of film, we could shoot all day long on a single SD card, which takes significantly less physical space in your camera bag. Just stick a few in your pocket and you have nearly every shoot covered. While changing a roll of film is a simple task, it can cause you to miss crucial moments if not planned correctly. With SD cards, you just pop one in before you shoot, format, and go.
SD and CF cards also have the added advantage of being travel-friendly and immediate. If you didn’t remember to hand check your undeveloped rolls of film, you may have a nasty surprise when you returned from that safari trip. We are no longer limited by a static ISO (or ASA for you dinosaurs out there). If…