Kuzano

I have been shooting since 1965, both film and digital.....

Still about 50% film.

Over that period of time (54 years) my keeper rate has been two images.

During the time I became literate with Adobe Photoshop, my keeper rate went down.
After I BLEW OFF Adobe, My keeper rate went back up.

No Shit! And No time wasted on PP. Only SOOC! No RAW since dropping Adobe!

philo Loc: philo, ca

I think i would find a different interest. to each his own, but i love the post work as much as the shooting.
to me sooc is just the starting point.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

My ratio has improved with age, because I usually use a tripod and I'm more careful about what I shoot and composition. I think I'm about 1 in 10 now. In my youth I was about 1 in 40-50. I still have my negatives from 40 years ago, When I look thru them today I say to myself, "How did ANYONE think this crap was worth shooting?" Horrible! LOL. >>>>AL

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

The one time I was there I was camera-less and astonished with the area. Drat.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

That struck me as funny. My main interest is plants, and this time of year waiting for spring to come to the north country I sometimes wish that I lived where the season was longer and there was a greater diversity of native plants and the weather was nicer - somewhere like South Carolina.

You can't be too far from Charleston and Savannah.

The salt water marshes are interesting:

https://www.drivethenation.com/road-trip-sc-coast/

You are not far from the foothills and the interesting old orchards at elevation in the Carolinas.

Columbia, South Carolina to Bryson City, North Carolina are a little over 3 hours apart and you are in the Smokies.

Then, there is Congaree National Park.

"It might seem unlikely that a national park could be undiscovered in any way, and yet Congaree National Park just outside of Columbia is certainly a hidden gem. It's one of the least visited national parks in the country, yet for the adventurous souls who make the short trip out to Hopkins to visit, it is full of amazing discoveries. Turtles as big as a coffee table. Spiders the size of your hand. Trees that are, literally, the biggest of their kind in the world. That's right - Congaree National Park has "champion trees" hiding in its blackwater swamp- trees that are the biggest of their species ever found. And it doesn't have one or two. It has more than a dozen, standing tall in the silent shimmering blackwater. It's an astonishing place."

https://www.nps.gov/cong/index.htm

Architecture, scenery, wildlife, people, history...

Mike

cascoly Loc: seattle

it really depends on when you start counting - if you're using continuous mode, you'll be discarding many of the shots as similar; then there are the technically bad images - someone walked in front, out of focus, etc; I delete these before even renaming for later editing. however once I do that i'll submit 90%+ to microstock where I get 80-90% accepted - but I wouldn't use that number since shooting for stock is a completely different mindset, and most pix wouldn't be something to display on your walls/monitor. (in general the more 'artistic' the image, the less useful it is for stock)

further, keeper % depends on what/when you're shooting -- on a tour where you're trying to keep up with the group? on a pre-planned destination shoot? from a moving car (preferably not while driving)? do you set up each shot manually? or shoot a wide variety of aspects, exposures, etc?

so the number really doesnt tell very much

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

I do not know, I have never paid any attention to that, or do I see a reason to do so!

aellman Loc: Boston MA

In my case, it is one way to measure my improvement over the years.

Xpatch Loc: New York, Antigua, GT.

1 percent is good, I initially keep 5 then review to 2-2.5 percent, and eat a week and then cull again. I also keep the top 10% from each for as long as feasible then review them to see what I may have changed or missed. It really an exercise in discipline.

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100%, always.

If you find that odd, then your definition
of "all the shots you take" may be kinda
warped, or huuuugely impractical.

Didn't need any math to answer given
a perfect success rate.

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buckscop Loc: Bucks County PA

20 percent keepers, 5 percent 'wallable'.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

You may want to think about PS and LR again. Looking at your Flickr photostream, I see a mix of flawless images, then others that represent lost opportunities - composition/cropping, contrast control, blown highlights, saturation all over the place - clipped colors in highly saturated areas, and so on - most of which could be helped with better exposure and a little post processing. However if you are satisfied and proud of your work, that's all that really matters at the end of the day.

But for me, SOOC doesn't cut it, unless I have complete control over lighting. Since I no longer shoot in studio, SOOC doesn't work for me at all.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

(My philosophy also.)

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

This thread seems to be divided between those who regard themselves as Masters of Photography and can do no wrong with their cameras, and the rest of us mortals that have standards and are quite self critical, but even more importantly, understand that there is no such thing as photograhic perfection and are always seeking to improve - just like yourself.

classic320

In general agreement with posts here. The secret to sucessful (however that's defined) photography is ruthless editing. My "keeper" rate is fairly high, well over 50 percent--that doesn't mean they're hard print worthy, just that they're mementos of personal events, often travel. I'm in the midst of converting my deceased father's thousands of color slides to digital and while he had a very good eye, most of what my brothers and I decided to keep are the pictures of family history......