How do you keep taking pictures...

[another view]

It also gets worse in that you'll never feel like you have 20+ keepers. Once you do, your standards will get higher and you'll beback to keeping 10 or less.

Very true. Interesting to go back thru old work and see the keepers from back then, I remember being excited about a few of them at the time but they might not make the cut today... I see that as a good thing though, shows I've improved (hopefully).

The little disappointments? There can be many, any specifically? Speed has a post about the lunar eclipse last night, and it started to cloud up at the worst possible moment - but there's nothing you can do about that. He did get some nice shots and I'm sure he'll be out there next time.

At some point, you'll recognize a good photographic opportunity and really want to work with it, whatever it is. Those good opportunities don't come along every day (usually) and those are the times to use film. It keeps me inspired looking for them.

[shadz]

I was told by a good friend, who's been a photographer a lot longer than I, "If I get one (good) shot out of a roll of film, it's a good day." (For him, good = outstanding.) Maybe that has always colored my expectations, as I don't let "the ratio" bother me. When I was shooting film only, it was pretty discouraging, mainly because of the cost. I shot a LOT of film. I shoot mostly digital now, which has controlled those costs a bit, and my ratio of keepers has gone way up recently, which surely means I'm about to get picky.

I have a shot of my niece, playing on an old cannon barrel. It was one of my first shots with BW film (nuttin special) and my, at the time, brand new 70-300 sigma zoom. It is still one of my favorite photos.

Really though, I get antsy when I don't get to get out and shoot. I've even resorted to shooting the kid's and my toys it's been so cloudy, rainy, yucky here. ;)

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Cyas.

Danny