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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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[–] Username_Chks_Outt@alien.top 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] RedHuey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I’m sorry, but if you really only have 30 keepers out of 1600 pictures taken, you aren’t practicing photography, you are just clicking the shutter, hoping against hope that the camera will do all the important work.

Not to single you out, but include everybody else around here who make similar statements. 1 out of 40 is just relying on luck, and from what I can see, you aren’t having any.

[–] BitterMango87@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What shall we say about Gary Winogrand then?

'He had an insatiable urge to be out and about, photographing life around him. In total (on the low end) we can be certain that he shot at least 5,850,000 photos in his lifetime.'

Pretty sure most of us saw maybe a hundred or so of those. On film too...

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

What we saw is no reflection on the ratio of good or bad photos. Nor does the fact that someone takes over 5 million pictures matter. If you take pictures, you are either thinking about it and taking good pictures, or you are relying on luck and taking mostly wasted pictures. The choice is yours to make.

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