How big is your photo collection?

[Candlelight]

I had a gather up of all digital photos and anything I've scanned (which is growing quite fast these days) and turns out my collection was 48GB and near 15,000 files!

I managed to do a bit of cleaning out, ditched about 6GB of either crap of duplicates (the worst culprit was four files deep of damn near the same stuff!).

Still, it's interesting going back and seeing, with the digital age of snap-like-there's-no-tomorrow, how much useless shots I have. I often just take a whole lot in a day, dump them on my machine and forget about them. Or with having kids you take lots in case you miss 'that shot'.

I'm also using SkyDrive to back stuff up to a remote location. Anyone else doing something similar?

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'd have to check my backup drive, but I have a few gigabytes of pics. Most are nature and landscapes, and I'm sure most of those are from the various areas of the Blue Hills. I also have a few old graveyard collections.

 

[SmoothieX]

I'm guessing around 5,000 in the digital batch. I've got boxes full of old 35 mm prints in the attic.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Thousands, but more importantly: Which format? That's the issue for me, really.

I store all RAW-files, have most stuff converted to jpg for web purposes and have everything that's edited in tif/psd, too cause you seriously don't wanna work with rubbish jpg in Photoshop.

I have a couple of external hard drives now. I think modeling/photography cost me more disk space than gaming, movies, music and software could've ever cost me combined.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

For the last week, around 20 GB, or 2000 photos. Before that... I'm not counting.

 

[An Officer]

About 300gb, and that doesn't include my albums before the digital age.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I recently backed up the photos I've taken over the past two years (since I got my digital camera) and it came to 128GB, 98GB of that coming from the second half of this year!

 

[RandyS]

I'm still in the process of scanning the photo albums my mom left me when she died. There are 22 total. Most of them are of me and my brother when we were growing up, but I also inheirited my grandma's three photo albums of pictures of my mom, her sister, and their brothers when they were growing up (due to their age, early 1940's through the late 1960's, I'm scanning those first).

I couldn't even guess how many photos there are total, but if I had to, I'd say 7,000. And that's conservative. I'm burning them to DVD-R's which holds 4.7GB.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Somewhere in the ballpark of 45,000 photos stored on various CDs, floppy disks, etc. I don't keep too much stuff on my hard drives actually.

 

[Mr. B]

26,500 photos spanning 138 GB. I've owned a dSLR for several years and I shoot a few thousand pics every year at music festivals I attend.

Overall my "keeper rate" is about 10-15%.

 

[B.J.]

I have a related question: do any of you actually go back and look though all those pictures? That, IMO, seems to be one of the problems with digital pictures. When I was growing up, I used to pull out the family photo albums periodically and flip through them, but it's not near as easy to do that with digital pictures. We have a digital photo frame that we load with the most recent pictures to put on display, but it's still not *all* of our pictures. And I really don't want to be messing around with a computer and various folders just to look at pictures.

I dunno, maybe it's just me....

 

[LitmusDragon]

^ That's what Facebook is for.

I go back and look at my photo albums on Facebook from time to time.

 

[Candlelight]

I have a related question: do any of you actually go back and look though all those pictures? That, IMO, seems to be one of the problems with digital pictures. When I was growing up, I used to pull out the family photo albums periodically and flip through them, but it's not near as easy to do that with digital pictures. We have a digital photo frame that we load with the most recent pictures to put on display, but it's still not *all* of our pictures. And I really don't want to be messing around with a computer and various folders just to look at pictures.

I dunno, maybe it's just me....

I'm doing that right now. I want to make sure I'm not keeping junk cos with having a little girl and now twins I'm gonna be taking heaps more photos as the years go on...

 

[Sky]

About 1.5 terabytes + 6 folders of negatives. I'm a photographer by profession though.

 

[Mr. B]

I have a related question: do any of you actually go back and look though all those pictures?

I put a lot of pictures on my personal website so that's a relatively easy way to see some of them. Looking at all my photos requires me to fire up Adobe Lightroom on my desktop PC, though... not much of an experience compared to flipping through a photo album with a friend.

 

[JiNX-01]

I have no idea how many pictures I have in my conventional albums, but my photobucket has 7,537 images, broken down as avatars, convention photos, screencaps from TV shows, pictures of family, friends and pets, vacation photos and interesting stuff I've found online.

 

[RandyS]

I found three more photo albums in a box in my garage I didn't even know I had last night. That 7,000 figure is now closer to 20,000. I guess. I stink at math.

Still, it was a nice surprise seeing new (well, new to me anyway) pictures of my mom and grandparents that I didn't know about before.

 

[JRS]

I have thousands of pictures, not sure of the numbers but I would say around 8000-10.000.
I currently have about dozen memory cards that I need to still go trough( I need a new cable to my cam first).
I do sometimes snap too many pictures..but taking photos is so much fun

 

[JoeZhang]

I've got about 10gb worth, it's all stored in my google account - I'd share them more but unlike flickr, they don't allow photo by photo privacy settings... so it's a PITA.

 

[Small White Car]

78,400 photos

540 GB

I have a related question: do any of you actually go back and look though all those pictures?

Apple TV with the screen-saver set to show photos off my computer. Sometimes I just sit with my daughter and we talk about the events as the photos go by.