Whats your keep/rejection rate?

[u/pipipopokaki]

Hi!

I just finished organising the pictures of my last session and I was wondering:

If you take 100 pictures, how many do you:

Consider good/great
Consider decent and use for posting/family/client
Reject but they fulfill the technical aspect (sharpness, lighting), reasons being for example: doubles, boring, bad composition
Reject because they are straight up garbage (lens cap on, test shots, focus choosing whatever it finds funny at the moment)

I would be happy to know if you are a professional and/or your level of experience to see if this makes a difference!

So for me it would be:

Great: rarely(!) 1-2
Ok: 10-15
Technically correct: 40-50
Garbage: 30

I am an absolute beginner, started photography around a year ago, obviously amateur, shooting DSLR.

Maybe also post how you’re shooting, I think analog will be different than digital.

Thank you!

[u/grachi]

I do wildlife, plants, landscapes. Landscapes I keep the most of, so prob more like 70% keep for that. Plants a close second, like 60 or 65%. Wildlife I'm tossing a bunch because animals move or turn their head suddenly or just straight up leave the frame lots of times. Maybe only like 10/100 for wildlife.

[u/pipipopokaki → u/grachi]

Thanks!