I shoot RAW only. It's a hobby for me, I have time to edit and convert. Still, I'm pretty brutal when I cull images, both for technical and compositional reasons. For each event/occurrence, I try to reduce it to the one shot that represents what I want to convey. The only time I keep a set of similar shots is when the sequence itself tells a story - daughter blowing out birthday candles, smiling, then shoving her hands in the cake and putting handfuls in her mouth, for example.
What do you do with the RAW files of images that you like and need no editing? Hopefully, you save those RAWs, too. I can almost gaurantee that someday you'll want to go back and improve one of those images, for a specific purpose or with some great technique you pick up later - and you'll kick yourself if you only saved the JPG.





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