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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 644541" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>I think this is a little over-thought. Think of it this way...</p><p></p><p>You go out to shoot a pair of nesting eagles. They come and go, you shoot and shoot, and you come home with 500-1000 images after a day. You go thru them, 5 of them are pure keepers, 10 are really good but not great but probably usable with the others in a blog post, 20-40 more are "something I can probably do something with in the right situation but I'm not going to bother with them up front. The other couple hundred are now useless to you. Do you save them anyway, and if so, do you ever go back to them? Maybe, but if you do it's on a rare occasion where you remember something specific about one of them, but that almost never happens.</p><p></p><p>Contests are like a day's shooting where you are pretty sure you're gonna come back with some stuff that will stay in your catalog for a long time, and some more stuff that you'll never get rid of, and a bunch of stuff that is destined for the bin. So while the company running does have a right to a bunch of crap I don't think they track more than a handful of it precisely because it's not worth their time. If they need more they need only run another contest. In the meantime, keeping a couple thousand photos tagged and cataloged that are free to use any time you want isn't hard - we all do it for our stuff, right? And that stuff we kept around more times than not we dump that too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 644541, member: 9240"] I think this is a little over-thought. Think of it this way... You go out to shoot a pair of nesting eagles. They come and go, you shoot and shoot, and you come home with 500-1000 images after a day. You go thru them, 5 of them are pure keepers, 10 are really good but not great but probably usable with the others in a blog post, 20-40 more are "something I can probably do something with in the right situation but I'm not going to bother with them up front. The other couple hundred are now useless to you. Do you save them anyway, and if so, do you ever go back to them? Maybe, but if you do it's on a rare occasion where you remember something specific about one of them, but that almost never happens. Contests are like a day's shooting where you are pretty sure you're gonna come back with some stuff that will stay in your catalog for a long time, and some more stuff that you'll never get rid of, and a bunch of stuff that is destined for the bin. So while the company running does have a right to a bunch of crap I don't think they track more than a handful of it precisely because it's not worth their time. If they need more they need only run another contest. In the meantime, keeping a couple thousand photos tagged and cataloged that are free to use any time you want isn't hard - we all do it for our stuff, right? And that stuff we kept around more times than not we dump that too. [/QUOTE]
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