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

  • Pvtwestbrook@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

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