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
Depends a lot on the genre.
For a landscape, it’s pretty close to one and done. There’s no real excuse to click the shutter before you have exactly what you want in the frame. Ditto for architecture, object study, etc.
Portraiture? Maybe one in four or so. You want to experiment and take a few and pick the best later.
Sports and action is mostly spray and pray. You shoot a hundred and hope one is the key moment.
I do action and portraiture. It’s hard to switch gears, and sometimes I end up with like 80 nearly identical shots because I just keep hitting that shutter button by reflex.
Sometimes I forget to take my camera off of high speed burst after shooting action, so my first landscape shot of the day I end up with 30 identical images of a tree
Good to make sure the tree does not get away.
Its always funny to me how ill take more photos in one afternoon of shooting action then I will in a full year of landscape photography.