When I started with 35mm photography I must have thrown out 90-95% of my slides and only kept the really good ones. I think I have almost every 4x5 negative and transparency I shot good and bad. I think it's time to get rid of the film that is never going to be used to make a print. The proportion of my 'keepers' has definitely gone up over time but I must say I keep making mistakes. Mistakes are frustrating but it's part of the learning process. So, I guess my question is: do people have a file with 'great negatives', another with 'maybe I'll work on these someday' and the third file being the 'circular file or trash bin'?

I don't want to suffer from the "I'll fix this in photoshop philosophy" but I bet there are quite a few photographers who have spent a lot of time in the darkroom trying to make a decent print from a bad negative

Scott