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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 11 months 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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[–] Pvtwestbrook@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just spent two weeks in Japan. We were in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara.

I took 3000 photos. I shared 600 of those. I whittled down about 100 that I'm proud enough to put into a book.

So that's about a 20% "facebook worthy" rate and 3.3% "portfolio worthy" rate.

Now that's also keeping in mind that you can point at basically anything in Japan and capture something worth printing, with enough patience.

I live in South Carolina, so... not so much here.

[–] shogi_x@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same, same. Two weeks in Japan, took around 4000 shots. Maybe 10% worth sharing. Japan is very photogenic!