Quote Originally Posted by peety3


I keep them all. There could be a hidden secret in one of those files, and I sure want to be able to go back to them.


A well-known photographer was shooting for TIME, and by contract had to send his images to TIME. After their exclusivity expired, he had access to them again. When the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke, he knew there was something amazing in the collection, and after TIME couldn't find it one of his assistants was able to find it. Imagine if he hadn't kept all of the images...



Similar thing happened to me on a smaller scale. I shot Port Canaveral for a local magazine, they just wanted the jpegs. A year later a company that was contracted by Disney Cruise line advertised for a photographer to shoot the Disney's terminal (they required the RAWs) so I went digging through the archives and still had the RAWs. So I replied and got paid again for the same shots since there were no exclusivities on the them.