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
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…
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.