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Old 09-01-10, 18:55
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Just wondering fellows... how many pic you delete after your field job?

You arrive and sit at your PC then start to delete the pic you are not happy with....

how many in % ???
if you took as example 100 photos how many you will keep ??? how many will be deleted ???
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Old 09-01-10, 22:15
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If you scroll down a little in 'General Photography Discussion' you'll see a thread called 'How many do you keep?' which answers your question. How many do we delete? General consensus is 'a lot'.
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I did no t see that one.. sorry...
Yes I can immagine a lot (i do) I'm also wondering if also the best photographers are used to delete a lot of pics.
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I'm also wondering if also the best photographers are used to delete a lot of pics.
Tight editing is an important part of being a good photgrapher, but so is choosing when to open the shutter.

I have found as I have got better at landscape photography that the number of compositions I make has fallen dramatically. I spend a lot more time thinking about the image these days than I used to, and am more likely to set up and wait for the light to be how I want it. So, in a typical day out with the camera in my local area, I might make somwhere between 5 and 10 compositions. There will be some bracketing of exposures, maybe some different filter combinations while I get the technical side right, and the unsatisfactory exposures will be binned. I usually keep one or two of each compostion, and rarely bin a whole series on initial review unless it is clearly rubbish. The 'nearly rights' sometimes grow on me over time, or provide a reference to go and try again. So overall, I probably delete fewer now than I used to, but I also make fewer images too. I think the proportion of discards has fallen though over time.
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If I'm shooting macro insects then about 1 in 30 are kept. Sometimes with macro you have to salvage the best of a bad lot, and hope you get to encounter the species again.

If its recording churches or historical sites where I'm using a tripod then I tend to delete far, far fewer.
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This is just one of the advantages of digital photography, that throwing away does not cost anything (I mean films and labs - they definetelly suffer with that), so from the other point of view - why not to take more and keep just the wow ones.

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I use the what if I try? Eg. incandescent light, night setting on a sunny day. So bin most or all. Digital = free to give it try.
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when I was working with films... normaly 60% was ok....

now I delete about 70% because I became more selective and possibilities offered by digital are huge.
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This is just one of the advantages of digital photography, that throwing away does not cost anything (I mean films and labs - they definetelly suffer with that), so from the other point of view - why not to take more and keep just the wow ones.

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No idea if you are italian like me or just visiting Italy.... anyway... Ciao.
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Ciao, io non sono italiana come te, non sto visitando l'Italia. Ho deciso vivere qui 6 anni fa, durate le mie prime vacanze in Italia. Ho visto Venezia, Lago Como, Firenze, Siena, Chianti, ... e mi sono enamorata compltamente. E un pease bellissimo, .... mi piace qui moltissimo.
Abito vicino Pisa da cinque anni.

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