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

Been on and off with the hobby for over 30 years. Started with film so I learned quickly to get it right in camera so I had high success rate.

When I had the time to get back in, it was with digital SLR so my success rate went down a lot because I'm able to experiment a lot more. But it helps that I can see a picture and know what focal length I want to use.

I still experiment but I have reduced the number of shots I take, leaning toward get it right versus experimenting. My last two week trip, not took 800 shots versus my prior 1500 shots.

Out of that, may keep 75-100 and top 5 get printed.

But I do walks outside where nothing really stands out or nothing catches my eye.

So my rate is all over the place.