What % of pics do you dump?

Grendel said:
I shoot a lot of wildlife and will only usually keep about 10% of the shots I take. That's the animal's fault for not posing correctly though, not mine ;)

If you want to do an interesting experiment, think like a film photographer for a day. Pretend you've loaded a 24 exp roll of 400 ISO film into your camera and that's all you've got for the day. You'll be amazed as to how much you start to really think about getting the shot right 1st time "in camera". When every shot has to count you don't release that shutter until you absolutely know it's gonna be a good'n :)
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This really does work!

I bought a cheap Eos 500 a few months ago. Loaded a 24exp film in it. Had it everywhere ive had the 40d but in 2-3months ive only taken 22 shots so far! Where as on the digital ill have taken a good 1-2000 in the same time frame. Dying to finsh the film off and see what it looks like lol.

As for keeper rate (showable to others lol), id say average of about 5%. Had a 75% rate the other night though, took 3, fudged the first and next 2 where what i wanted. Doesnt happen too often!
 
Just checked 8085 images on-line, and I know there's a fair few family shots at home that never go on line, so that works out about 15-20% of the shots I've taken end up on line. Although I've got really fussy lately...:cuckoo:
 
Buy a small memory card and turn off the auto-review on the LCD then you got something similar to a film camera!
 
mole2k said:
Buy a small memory card and turn off the auto-review on the LCD then you got something similar to a film camera!
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thats kind of what ive done. with digital being so instant you become dependent on looking at the preview screen to see it was ok. i think it is a usful tool though but it shouldn't be used as a crutch which you see so many people doing.

turn it off for a week, i challenge anyone too and i bet you will produce far more keepers as you will be forced to think about everything you do.
 
Took 239 photos last trip and had 39 keepers. Of those about 10 of them im thinking about printing.
Rugby depending on conditions i get maybe 10 out of 120 or so.

Going from that (and all my other photos) my keeper rate looks to be 5%, 10% absolute max. Digital though does give me the advantage of taking lots of near identical shots with SLIGHTLY different exposure,composition etc and picking the best. Quite often each scene im trying has 5-6 shots taken of it.
 
I think on average I dump about 75% of my shots since most of the time for motorsport I fire off a burst and probably pick 1-2 from it.
 
This thread made me wonder, so I just right-clicked on my photos folder, selected properties and waited for it to show me the total size...and waited...and waited. it stopped at 2gb short of 200gb. And then i remembered the 12 odd DVDs of backed-up photos, another 50gb at least. So... how on earth did I manage to accumulate 250gb of photos?

*goes to use the delete button of computer several times*
 
I dont know who has to do it - but it would be interesting to have a poll on this thread?
 
I keep around 15-20% of what I shoot, whatever I shoot it seems - wedding / portrait / travel, etc. The rest are deleted.

Even so my photo store stands at 1.4TB :eek:
 
I keep all my photos (whether good or rubbish!) unless there's actually something wrong with them (blurry, out of focus etc.). Good question btw!
 
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