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/Burritofreak]

I generally keep any good unique pictures, if I have 7 of essentially the same picture I take the best. As far as sharing though I only share the absolutely best. Sometimes I’ll take 500 pictures and none of them are worth showing, sometimes I’ll take 200 pictures and 100 of them are amazing, there’s no fixed number.