How can I determine what is taking up my hard drive space?

I have a 55GB hard drive with 6.83GB of free space remaining. I find it hard to believe that I have 50GB of space used. How do I find out what is taking up the 50GB of disc space? I manually run the sudo daily, weekly, monthly jobs so I don't believe it's log files, etc. Thanks in advance.
Mike

Case in point; in my iPhoto Library I have Thumb64.data, ThumbJPG.data, Library.iPhoto, etc, can these be deleted?
No. Leave it alone.
All Log files?
Yes.
What about the Library\Caches directory; can all of this data be deleted without impacting application or system performance?
Yes.
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