Why do you suppose.. (Page 7): I too used to feel bad if I went out with two or three rolls of Kodachrome and came home with only a couple of keepers, sometimes none. Then I read an...

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Curmudgeon wrote:

I pick up my camera, walk out the door and to me the measure of success is the number shots taken and the number of keepers produced. Few or no shots make it a failed day

When I was younger I would pickup my fly rod, drive three hours to my favorite stream, fish from dawn to dark without even a rise let alone a strike. Drive 3 hours home and consider it a great day.

I wonder why the difference?

I too used to feel bad if I went out with two or three rolls of Kodachrome and came home with only a couple of keepers, sometimes none. Then I read an article about National Geographic photographers. To produce a 4 page spread of maybe a dozen shots, they would fire off 25,000 shots. After that I felt good if I got only a few keepers and was down right elated if I managed to get a dozen from a couple of rolls of 36 exp.!

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Bridges wrote:

I too used to feel bad if I went out with two or three rolls of Kodachrome and came home with only a couple of keepers, sometimes none. Then I read an article about National Geographic photographers. To produce a 4 page spread of maybe a dozen shots, they would fire off 25,000 shots. After that I felt good if I got only a few keepers and was down right elated if I managed to get a dozen from a couple of rolls of 36 exp.!

Stories likes these of what actually happened behind the camera should be required reading and maybe even chalkboard writing exercises for every last remaining member of the School of SOOC.

scallihan Loc: Tigard, OR

jeffrey8066 wrote:

Any day you can get outside and shoot is a great day. Even if you don't get some great shots that day it sets you for what could come the next day. Every day take it as practice or a day to learn how to take better shots or learn something new about your equipment.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Curmudgeon wrote:

I pick up my camera, walk out the door and to me the measure of success is the number shots taken and the number of keepers produced. Few or no shots make it a failed day

When I was younger I would pickup my fly rod, drive three hours to my favorite stream, fish from dawn to dark without even a rise let alone a strike. Drive 3 hours home and consider it a great day.

I wonder why the difference?

It’s all in your perspective about life. Sounds like you view photography as work and fishing as recreation.

Stan

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CHG_CANON wrote:

Stories likes these of what actually happened behind the camera should be required reading and maybe even chalkboard writing exercises for every last remaining member of the School of SOOC.

Every shot I get is SOOC. The image goes nowhere else before I download it. They come right (straight) out of the camera to the computer.

Except when I have the horizon off a bit, then they come COOC (Crooked Out Of Camera).

awesome14 Loc: UK

FishIng and photography are both perpetual occasions for hope. They seem similar, but phtography takes a lot more effort and work! With fishing, the fish do most of the work. I guess if one thinks about what all a camera does, it saves all the work of having a bird inside it to chisel the image in stone, like the Flintstone's camera.

But the photographer does most of the work. And lugging is no walk in the park either. I have a sore neck and shoulders after a day of shooting. Fishing is also more relaxing, requires less concentration, but it doesn't pay as well.

awesome14 Loc: UK

FishIng and photography are both perpetual occasions for hope. They seem similar, but phtography takes a lot more effort and work! With fishing, the fish do most of the work. I guess if one thinks about what all a camera does, it saves all the work of having a bird inside it to chisel the image in stone, like the Flintstone's camera.

But the photographer does most of the work. And lugging is no walk in the park either. I have a sore neck and shoulders after a day of shooting. Fishing is also more relaxing, requires less concentration, but it doesn't pay as well.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Bridges wrote:

I too used to feel bad if I went out with two or three rolls of Kodachrome and came home with only a couple of keepers, sometimes none. Then I read an article about National Geographic photographers. To produce a 4 page spread of maybe a dozen shots, they would fire off 25,000 shots. After that I felt good if I got only a few keepers and was down right elated if I managed to get a dozen from a couple of rolls of 36 exp.!

When I was stationed outside Everglades National in the early 60s I had an acquaintance called Frederick K Truslow. He shot for NatGeo. I was not a picture taker then, I couldn't afford a camera. Fred told me an acceptable success rate for him was 1:100. He shot Nikon and Kodachrome which was the only film NatGeo accepted at the time.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Curmudgeon wrote:

When I was stationed outside Everglades National in the early 60s I had an acquaintance called Frederick K Truslow. He shot for NatGeo. I was not a picture taker then, I couldn't afford a camera. Fred told me an acceptable success rate for him was 1:100. He shot Nikon and Kodachrome which was the only film NatGeo accepted at the time.

It hasn't changed much today, even in digital, even in 2022.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

CHG_CANON wrote:

It changed much today, even in digital, even in 2022.

Please elaborate Paul. It certainly has changed, high frame rate cameras 30+ fps, better glass, post processing and other things. Do you think the success rate has dropped to maybe 1:10 or even less

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Curmudgeon wrote:

Please elaborate Paul. It certainly has changed, high frame rate cameras 30+ fps, better glass, post processing and other things. Do you think the success rate has dropped to maybe 1:10 or even less

typo, corrected, as in hasn't changed

I keep maybe 1 in 100, possible 2 or 3 in 100, whether shooting in 2 or 3-image bursts or a pokey 5 fps for flying birds or planes.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Fun shots 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

User ID wrote:

Amen !!!!!
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cbtsam Loc: Monkton, MD

Gene51 wrote:

You have very high expectations of your photograph... (show quote)

If I'd spent time at a place like that, I'd be pretty happy with no keepers. More pleased with some keepers, but plenty happy just having been there.

ChristianHJensen

Curmudgeon wrote:

I pick up my camera, walk out the door and to me the measure of success is the number shots taken and the number of keepers produced. Few or no shots make it a failed day

When I was younger I would pickup my fly rod, drive three hours to my favorite stream, fish from dawn to dark without even a rise let alone a strike. Drive 3 hours home and consider it a great day.

I wonder why the difference?

It all starts with your Handle - I see you chose "Curmudgeon" - choose a different way of looking at things - it is all about attitude