lee74
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Reged: 29/04/2007
Posts: 31
Loc: Yorkshire
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Looking through my collection of photos recently most of them are perfectly ok and a few are quite good, i think so any way. And I was wondering after a day taking photos how many photos that you take are actually good photos, or is it just me that think that everybody's photos are better than mine!
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Fen
BAD WOLF
Reged: 12/03/2002
Posts: 19552
Loc: Currently Unknown!
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Practice you must. In time better you will get pictures.
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It depends really. Some days I go out and delete 90% of the photos.
Other days I keep 90%
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 36431
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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Other days I keep 90%
They're the days you only take one picture... 
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Nod
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 08/04/2006
Posts: 4063
Loc: Devon, UK.
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I generally reckon on 10 - 20 % that I'm happy with and maybe 1-2 % that end up on the wall.
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alanS
Dr Dust
Reged: 30/09/2005
Posts: 3402
Loc: Up North, England.
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A very small number for me, if I can get one or two I'm happy. Sometimes though when I'm looking through old shots one will catch my eye, I wonder how I overlooked it and it becomes a favourite from the day.
Also, some of my favourites aren't actually good photo's in themselves but they just have something about them and maybe sometimes the magic and attraction are not in good composition or lighting but in catching a moment or a mood well. I think that sametimes a poor photo can still be a good image.
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JonD
journeyman
Reged: 18/01/2008
Posts: 75
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I take about 250 to 500 shots a week, depending on what I'm doing and where I am. Usually I end up with about 10% keepers, and about 2 or 3 a month worthy of hanging on the wall. Much the same as many people I suspect.
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ermintrude
Hinkypuff
Reged: 30/06/2003
Posts: 12166
Loc: London, UK
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Quote:
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Other days I keep 90%
They're the days you only take one picture...
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lee74
newbie
Reged: 29/04/2007
Posts: 31
Loc: Yorkshire
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Thanks for that, thought it was just me.
Good to know that I am not alone.
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LargeFormat
old hand
Reged: 24/10/2006
Posts: 976
Loc: Buckinghamshire and Cumbria
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I always keep about 95% of the photographs I take getting rid only of those that are seriously defective. One never knows when one might need a particular shot. That doesn't mean they are good photographs. I think I have less than a couple of dozen photographs I would put on the wall for others to see and only a couple that I actually have put on the wall.
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kiko
journeyman
Reged: 18/01/2008
Posts: 50
Loc: UK
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i'd probably say that i keep probably 90% of the photos i keep tho only probably touch up 10% and then probably print of half of those (if it was a good days shooting) last weekend took probably 300 and have just printed off 8 at work today, i'll probably go through them again and print off another 10 but those shall be kinda experimental with different crops or colours.
i'm quite rubish
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Craftysnapper
enthusiast
Reged: 05/01/2006
Posts: 317
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Guess I keep about 5% to 15% if shooting landscpapes, candid, portraits etc.
But I keep 99% of family and personel memory shots and that 1% really has to be out of focus.
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Keep on snapping and catch the moment if you can.
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Edited by Craftysnapper (16/03/2008 09:08)
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Monobod
'Phantom' of the forum!
Reged: 03/04/2003
Posts: 5672
Loc: Just West of Norwich, Norfolk
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I have no set pattern. Since joining a photographic club, I now find myself thinking a bit more about what I am taking and how, so I end up with more shots worth keeping than I ever used to before.
Not more than about a quarter of them get printed and some end up as digital images for projection. In tha last year, I think I have printed at A3 and card mounted about 30 photos, one a fortnight on average. (There are 25 photos in my competitions gallery on Flickr).
Unless they are really rubbish, I keep all of my holiday and family snaps, but print very few of them, except to pass on to family members.
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Edited by Monobod (16/03/2008 10:27)
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Adesw
The phantom flasher
Reged: 07/02/2008
Posts: 685
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When I started I took hundreds. They were all £@!#.
Now I only take a few on each outing, and 90% are keepers. But I dont delete on cam. Considering that the most I will ever take while doing landscape work is 20 (and that would be a long period!) I generally wait untill I can view it on my monitor then decide. The more photos I take the higher the failure rate, but If I only take 2 or so I will generally have put alot of thought into them before pushing the shutter.
I'm going to start playing with Grad filters soon though so that failure rate will go up, oh and when I get a d300 it will spike!
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DaveG40
enthusiast
Reged: 21/07/2007
Posts: 236
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Gr8 Topic Lee
For Normal "non-holiday/event" useage I probably keep/use about 10% of the photo's I take, being new'ish to d-slrs (<6 months) and having bought 2 new camera's in that time I've been snapping away at anything and everything, in order to get the best from both camera's. Working right next to the runway of a large RAF base helps 
My latest photo shoot is typical of this; just over 100 shots taken, 4 kept & 6 footy photo's sent on to a fellow committee member, when on holiday or at an event etc, I'm less snappy happy & probably keep 90% (used to make a holiday dvd etc), and at least 3 or 4 of these photo's go on the mantle piece etc.
I was beginning to get worried that my shots taken to kept ratio was very poor, but going on the responses thus far it looks like it's very normal to only keep/use 10%.
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Malcolm_Stewart
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 11/07/2005
Posts: 2244
Loc: Milton Keynes, UK
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I guess it depends on one's make-up and interests - whether aspirationally arty or not. I do have a few "masterpieces" on my walls, but ...
I started in 1953, and I'm currently scanning my very early snaps. Those which are now most interesting, complete with flare from a leak in the bellows etc., are the photographs of my parents and grandparents (and their homes) when I was in my early teens. Now, I'm very glad that I've kept >99% of my snaps and can share them with mu grandchildren. Fortunately I quickly bought a camera which didn't leak light, and am surprised at how easy it seems to scan my old negs in comparison with some more recent ones.
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