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Successful shot rate (alien.top)
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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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[–] MrSleepyhead@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I actually calculated this success rate for my internship report in 2017 after I finished my mandatory internship with a national newspaper.

I dont have the numbers on my phone but it was around 10 % overall that were submitted after the assignments, and 10 % of that were printed (1 % of the RAWs make it into the paper)

There was a slight deviation between zooms (politics, breaking news, spray and pray) and primes (reportage, portraits, landscapes) that underlined the differnent shooting styles of the lenses. I suppose this should still holds for my news work these days.

I also started collecting the data for weddings because I felt that an 8h wedding didnt yield double the pictures of a 4h wedding The „success“ (send) rate sits at 13,2 % for 12 weddings in 2022/2023.