Quote Originally Posted by M_Six View Post
Which leads me to another question along the post-processing lines; do most of you seriously cull your work to just a few of your best shots? I tend to not toss anything unless it's really unusable, but as I mentioned above, I end up with way too many pictures. But deciding which and how many to keep for my portfolio is tough.
I've started tossing more and more as my library has grown larger and larger.

I don't remember which book I took this from, but I think about my image library in terms of (1) photographs and (2) documentation of some person or event - which of course is a bunch of photos too, but they don't tend to be all that interesting. Tier 1 photos get a 3 to 5 star rating in Aperture, and they are the ones that I care about most. But tier 2 photos provide context, fond memories, etc, so they are worth keeping too so long as they are properly exposed and sufficiently sharp.

Then, I put only the best shots on my smugmug site. That forces me to think critically about the massive number of shots that I accumulate!