How to Efficiently Manage Photos Among iPhone, iCloud & iMac

I have an iPhone 5S and a late-2009 iMac running OSX Mavericks.  My on-line storage capacity limit on iCloud has been slightly exceeded and I wish to avoid unnecessarily buying more iCloud storage.  I recently went on a trip, taking many photos and quite a few videos; I suspect they are the reason I exceed my current iCloud storage capacity limit.
Can anyone recommend a preferred method for efficiently managing photos on my iPhone, iCloud storage and my iMac?  While I normally "cloud sync" (over WiFi), today I connected by lightening connector to my iMac to deliberately transfer all my iPhone photos to iPhoto.  Now safely stored on the iMac (which is backed up each day), I thought iPhoto would offer to delete the images from my iPhone, as it used to do with my Canon digital camera.  But it did not and they're still there.
Once copied to the iMac, what's the preferred way to remove the extra photos and videos from my iPhone?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

iPhoto should have prompted you after it finished the import, asking if you want to delete. It does in mine -- version 9.5.1
One way to quickly delete the photos still on your phone is to connect the phone to your Mac and open Image Capture. It allows you to select and delete photos from the camera roll without importing them via Image Capture.

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