Removing Photos but still taking up space on Storage!?

So I have a question not sure if I am doing this right or if its a bug. So I have a 6 Plus and it says that my photos are taking up a total of 1.8 gigs of space. The issue I am having is that I am removing photos from from the phone but it still is saying 1.8 gigs being occupied. I haven't removed all of the yet, but enough to where it should have dropped to 1.7 or 1.6 gigs? Does anyone know why this is happening? Any help will be appreciated.

No I did not but it says on storage that I have 14 GB left and that I have no video data and the games only take up 4 GB. it is not coincidence that the other 8 GB that are used on the device happen to be the size of the two films I have. It says I don't have them and without internet they don't show up on the device (e.g. Because they are on the cloud) so why are they still taking up storage?

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