Rules I made for myself (Page 3): Excellent set of rules to consider. They all make one think.

lamontcranston

Excellent set of rules to consider. They all make one think.

Low Budget Dave

Corollaries:

- If you display more than one image of the same subject, put the images in the same frame.

- Read up on the best setting to use in a given situation, but arrive early enough to test the settings and look at the results.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

CHG_CANON wrote:

How about another way of thinking about it: he has extremely high standards, maybe comparatively higher than yours.

Then perhaps those high standards should begin before pressing the shutter button, not after.

Dalek Loc: Detroit, Miami, Goffstown

I will supply a often used rule or should I say technique taught to me by a good friend photographer. When looking through the viewfinder before you take the shot, let your eye walk around what your are viewing. Look at the edges, foreground, and background as there may be something there that did not meet you focusing eye like a tree growing out of the top of your subjects head, we have all done that. Let your eye walk around the shot you are viewing, that is one of my rules.

Hip Coyote

I like your rules. I’d add: to improve display your work in front of knowledgeable photographers. It has changed my perception of everything. Very helpful...and painful!

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

par4fore wrote:

GOD BLESS OUR VETS! br br 40 years of shooting, s... (show quote)

Great advice, thanks! In the film days whenever I got back a box of 36 slides I would only keep on average 3-5 of them, and throw the rest out. In moving to digital I use a similar philosophy.

Bill_de Loc: US

rook2c4 wrote:

Then perhaps those high standards should begin before pressing the shutter button, not after.

It also depends on what you are shooting. If you are shooting a statue you can study it for a month. If you are shooting wildlife, or fast action sports, you don't have that luxury.

And, as already mentioned, it depends on ones standards. I never fill a hard drive. I just periodically take a close look at what I have saved, do some housekeeping, I'm good to go.

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

rook2c4 wrote:

Then perhaps those high standards should begin before pressing the shutter button, not after.

Why would you be the one to cast the first lens?

Charlie C Loc: North Liberty, IA

Very well stated. I grew up with film so my prime rule is get it right in the camera (exposure, point of focus, white balance and composition) especially with jpgs. Just an old habit.

dandi Loc: near Seattle, WA

Good rules, my favorite is - less is more.

Indiana Loc: Huntington, Indiana

Good words of advice. Thanks for posting and thanks for serving.

hammond

par4fore wrote:

GOD BLESS OUR VETS! br br 40 years of shooting, s... (show quote)

To each their own,
rules are meant to be broken.

Totally disagree about limiting oneself to a single image of any given subject. Keepers are keepers regardless of whether they are variations on a theme.

Have taken great shots where the eyes, even the whole head are out of focus.

I like the point about forcing creativity by bringing only one prime, but if I'm going somewhere for a once-in-a-lifetime shoot, I'm bringing my whole kit and trying out as many different angles and perspectives as I can.

Going on vacation with two cameras is sort of the same as brining multiple lenses, which contradicts your less is more rule.

But as I said, rules are meant to be broken, and as you said...

... to each their own.

hammond

par4fore wrote:

GOD BLESS OUR VETS! br br 40 years of shooting, s... (show quote)

To each their own,
rules are meant to be broken.

Totally disagree about limiting oneself to a single image of any given subject. Keepers are keepers regardless of whether they are variations on a theme.

Have taken great shots where the eyes, even the whole head are out of focus.

I like the point about forcing creativity by bringing only one prime, but if I'm going somewhere for a once-in-a-lifetime shoot, I'm bringing my whole kit and trying out as many different angles and perspectives as I can.

Going on vacation with two cameras is sort of the same as brining multiple lenses, which contradicts your less is more rule.

But as I said, rules are meant to be broken, and as you said...

... to each their own.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

I don't shoot as many pictures as a lot of you do about 100-200 is my limit. My Philosophy: Don't Delete Anything. Set up an external hard drive, if you are really concerned about someone seeing your culls, password protect the drive. The way software is progressing, at least for us amateurs, they will become keepers, some of them may be now. If not, some of my ugliest shots have made interesting textures and backgrounds. JMHO.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

LFingar wrote:

Joel Sartori is a 20 yr plus, highly acclaimed National Geographic photographer. According to him about 1 shot in every 1000 gets used by Nat Geo.

Back in the Kodachrome days Frederick Kent Truslow was a highly acclaimed National Geographic photographer. Shooting motorized Nikon F's and Kodachrome 25 he told me 1 in 100 would be acceptable. Is this a comment on the ability of the photographer? No I don't think so. I think it's a change shooting philosophy. Fred expected every shot to be a good one and took the time and effort to make that happen. Maybe he did, but I never saw him "spray and pray," even with those large film magazines. Maybe that's the difference between 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000?