I’ll actually be covering the latter part of your query in tomorrow’s post so will defer answering till then if that’s ok. Edit-in and edit-out are possibly my terms. Edit-in means that I select the images I want to work with. Edit-out means I select the images I want to discard. Initially I used to edit-out, now I edit-in exclusively. I find it more efficient. I can break this down more tomorrow if required.

And no, I haven’t actually deleted an image in years. I find it safer not to – no chance I’ll “accidentally” delete a good image, and cards, disk space etc are relatively cheap.

Couple more general questions. At what point do you format the cf cards? Once you have it in your local raid1 array? Also do you use offsite backups? So far it sounds like you have things backed up like crazy locally (which as a computer sysadmin I enjoy hearing) but no mention of offsite backups. FWIW I use jungledisk which is essentially a frontend for amazon’s s3 cloud storage service (there are free programs now I’d recommend over jungledisk since they switched to a subscription only model). Then finally the topic that allways gets a lot of discussions on forums, do you completely delete junk images? Meaning ones that are horribly exposed, had camera in wrong mode when you took it, accidentally hit the shutter and got a picture of your shoe, etc?

Oh yeah maybe I should have put in between “The night of the wedding” and “The day after the wedding”: Sleep.