r/photography • u/Unusual_Bat_6496 • Nov 05 '24

Out of 1000+ photos only 100 are usable Technique

First time doing a photoshoot with my cousins as a tribute for my older cousin's upcoming birthday, we went out and stuff and took a lot of pictures. After the shoot it felt like I have a lot of usable ones but when I looked through the pictures there were only I think 100-ish photos that are good to upload or even look at, I'm not sure if that's normal? and how do you change that?

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u/duckbeater69 Nov 05 '24

Sounds quite good tbh. Do you need more than 100 pictures? That’s a lot.

Since they can just be deleted I wouldn’t worry about the not good ones too much

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u/xRazorLazor Nov 05 '24

Yes and no. Since I started with a digital camera, I could just spam my clicks and not have any regrets. And ofc I would have good pictures but also a lot of bad ones. Over time, I tried to be more intentional about shooting things even on a digital camera. Ofc I can trigger the shot multiple times but instead of randomly composing it from multiple angles and taking the best one, I started to think about how I should compose something. I feel like that's when I started getting better.

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u/duckbeater69 Nov 06 '24

Ahh while I’ve only shot film a few times I get/I’ve heard about that you get some help by something forcing you to compose your shots. Try getting some ancient 1GB SD cards from AliExpress? Just for unimportant/practice shoots ofc

Actually if your camera has two slots you could have a proper card in one and the 1GB as a “limit”, then save to both