Photos taking up too much storage on Macbook Pro

This is quite frustrating. Photos and Movies are taking up quite a bit of my storage on my Macbook and not sure how to get rid of them. They are not saved on my Macbook through iPhoto so not sure how to delete all of these? My iPhone photo stream is connected but its not holding 44GB worth of photos thats for sure! I've run OmniSweep but that hasn't been able to identify the location of all these. Just really want to know how to wipe them as I'm unable to save other files on my mac or through Dropbox.
Thanks
Jon

Did you look in your home folder>pictures? As I suspect you know, that is where the iPhoto libraries are located. I do not know if other photos are stored there.
Barry

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