You were thinking of works of art, Tanya is thinking of salable pictures. There is a big difference. Any pro who does not get a salable picture with every shot except where the subject did something the photographer has no control over is not very competent.

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Shel Belinkoff wrote:

Wow!  Back in the late sixties, when I was hanging out with a lot of photogs,
the general consensus was ONE keeper from a roll of 36.  Maybe we were looking
for different things then, hard to say.  Looking at the contact sheets of some
great and current photogs, as well as some from the fifties and sixties, it's
interesting to note that often only two or three shots from a roll are chosen
for publication or exhibition or some other useful purpose.

18 keepers per roll is darned good, imo.

Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:


I guess this is why I still don't believe that I have a great "strike rate"
with my photography.  I am averaging probably 18 exposures per 24 roll that
I consider to be "keepers".  When I get up to 22 "keepers" per roll, I'll be
happy.





-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com

"You might as well accept people as they are,
you are not going to be able to change them anyway."




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