I’ve learned to be ruthless on my images over the years. Everything that is technically bad, boring, repeated goes to bin. I might leave some imperfect photos if I don’t have similar technically good ones. That’s before PP. After processing I delete most originals leaving only the processed jpegs. I archive raws only for images I might want to try different processing - king of “artistic” stuff, ones that I processed to BW and like that. Also for paid shoots. In very rare cases I might regret that I no longer have raw for some image - but the overall experience of browsing the archive and backup space required is much better now.
I’ve learned to be ruthless on my images over the years. Everything that is technically bad, boring, repeated goes to bin. I might leave some imperfect photos if I don’t have similar technically good ones. That’s before PP. After processing I delete most originals leaving only the processed jpegs. I archive raws only for images I might want to try different processing - king of “artistic” stuff, ones that I processed to BW and like that. Also for paid shoots. In very rare cases I might regret that I no longer have raw for some image - but the overall experience of browsing the archive and backup space required is much better now.