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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Successful shot rate (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by HardVision@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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On average what would you say is your success rate when you go out to shoot? And what’s your experience level?

For myself who has a passion for photography but zero formal training and only purchased my first real camera less than a year ago, I’d say 1% of the pictures that I take are “good” or at least to the point to where I’d share them.

I know a lot comes from just going out and taking pictures but I feel like the gaps between when I go out and take pictures and actually sit at the computer and look at them is so spread out that I can never remember what I did or was thinking last time I was out shooting

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[–] Username_Chks_Outt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Just back from three weeks in New Zealand where I took 1,600 photos. Been through about 75% of them and I have about 30 keepers. That’s about one keeper for every 40 photos.

To be fair, I took a lot of photos to stitch as panoramas. Plus, I tended to take two or more photos of the same thing and hope that one of them was sharp. Still, there were some where I don’t know what I was thinking.

If I had been by myself, I probably would have used a tripod and taken more time and had fewer duds. My wife was very patient but it was her holiday too.

[–] EndlessOcean@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Next time you come here you can borrow my tripod :)

[–] Username_Chks_Outt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the offer. I took a tripod but only used it when my wife was sleeping in. Helpfully, she slept in at Kaikoura, Wanaka and Queenstown.

[–] EndlessOcean@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a shame you missed the awe inspiring beauty of Hamilton's high street at 3am on a Saturday.

[–] Username_Chks_Outt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Visited Hamilton. One photo is a semi-keeper. The Renaissance Garden. The second - a panoramic photo of the food court didn’t make the cut. Sadly, we needed to get to Rotorua by nightfall. Looking forward to seeing the 3am shots though!

[–] EndlessOcean@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ya know, I've been to about 50 major cities in my life and have only been offered meth precisely once - in Rotorua at a red light when I was waiting to cross the street to the lake and a van pulled up and said "hey bro, do you want some P, bro?" I said no thanks and he said "sweet as all good" and drove off.

[–] morphinedreams@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

A drunk hamiltonian searching for some kebab or overwarmed pie is something you won't find in a zoo and an beautiful testament to the diversity of our fair land.

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