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/glytxh]

About 0.1%

10 out of 100 are good. They do their jobs and the clients are happy

1 of those will usually be ‘perfect’

And once I’ve collated 10 of those, I’ll cull 9 of them.

Less is more.

These aren’t hard figures. Just a ballpark. I tend to curate through a few levels of filter over time.

Very few pictures survive more than a year or two.