What is your 'Ratio'?

[THXGEEK]

I had some spare time today and wandered down to my local wildlife watering hole (aka the 'suburban water retention pond').

After a vast expenditure of photons and electrons, I have a few pics that I deemed 'worthy' of processing and potential sharing with family, friends and community. Most of my pics basically really 'suck' for all of the reasons we all experience. Out of focus. Too much noise. Can't be cropped properly. It just isn't 'right'. And so on...

So. My question is: What is your ratio of pics taken to pics that you are willing to process/share?

After very careful consideration, my average ratio is at least 100:1. (That ratio is considerable higher for my newer platforms - still getting to know my Fuji camera)

What about you?

 

[Richard A]

I have never really bothered working out anything like that. I don’t really see the point. A well known YouTuber who shoots birds (both in flight and not) recently said on his channel that he’s happy if he gets one “keeper” from a day’s shooting. I’m sure he does lots of stuff other than birds though.

The other night, during the eclipse, between midnight and 6:00 am, I took 188 shots. I was very happy that I got the nine decent ones that are in the composite. Bear in mind that I was shooting a basically static object although the conditions were a bit trying.

 

[Unframed Dave]

With wildlife, it's around 1%.

My ratio went up when I stopped taking absolute no hopers, barn owls at 250yds etc.

 

[spudhead]

I had some spare time today and wandered down to my local wildlife watering hole (aka the 'suburban water retention pond').

After a vast expenditure of photons and electrons, I have a few pics that I deemed 'worthy' of processing and potential sharing with family, friends and community. Most of my pics basically really 'suck' for all of the reasons we all experience. Out of focus. Too much noise. Can't be cropped properly. It just isn't 'right'. And so on...

So. My question is: What is your ratio of pics taken to pics that you are willing to process/share?

After very careful consideration, my average ratio is at least 100:1. (That ratio is considerable higher for my newer platforms - still getting to know my Fuji camera)

What about you?

Well I am sure your keeper rate is higher than you think it is, It is has always been the case that simply buying the best and newest gear doe`s not equal great results, it is a learning curve for us all and every system is different. For every great shot you see on any site anywhere that shooter will had many misses as well, I guess sometimes it better not to shoot if conditions do not allow as you state , heat haze, distance low light all eat into your odds of good shots. The one thing I keep hearing from shooters now is I don`t worry about noise any more on shots we have great noise reducing software now, true to some extent but on the a1 it kicks in quite low and I try to keep it way down. As for my hit rate I don`t really know, I do know that for birds in flight it lower than static birds or wildlife. Bird photography is not easy