| The only photographs I regret are the ones I didn't take, because I felt weird about taking them at the time, or just assumed they wouldn't come out. I remember the Tetons, and being at the same place that Ansel Adams made a wonderful photo so many decades ago, before the trees along the river grew to full height and completely made it impossible to recreate, but the experience of being there was worth it. We're at the point now where photographs and storage are effectively free. Take your photos, in RAW if you like, but do yourself the favor of just throwing away the blurry ones, the ones that were obviously bad. You don't need to keep looking at those forever. I keep mine in folders yyyy / yyyymmdd / camera folder / image_name, and I never edit the originals... I always save them with a new name the first thing I do... I lost my favorite photo of a late friend that way, and now only have the 1/4 scale thumbnail as a result, never again! One of my favorite photos was taken with a $90 pocket camera (before cell phones) that I borrowed from my bride after my DSLR died.[1] That little Nikon had a "sports mode" in which it would just keep taking photos until you told it to stop... so I laid down in front of "The Bean" in Chicago and made a hemispherical panorama. The one time I took my own breath away was when I combined 2 panoramas of Chicago, shot from the same point with the same setup, day and night... when I slide the layer transparency in GIMP and stopped.... I actually gasped.[2] It's fun to take the DSLR out and shoot with it, when health permits. Have fun. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/---mike---/51858792421/in/date... [2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/---mike---/50858749756/in/date... |