>>3381909> one picture a day is good going for an accomplished photographer1. He said "a couple of hundred images per year". That's *less than* one picture a day. Also he said "mostly of my battlestation and computer guts", so probably not good ones.
2. Getting one *good* shot per day is, sure, a great record. But someone getting one good shot per day is usually going to be taking far more than one shot per day and then just showing the best of the best. Ansel Adams said he was doing well if he got twelve good shots in a year, but that doesn't mean he was only taking one photo a month, it means he was constantly going out into the wilderness with his 4x5 and just being ruthless with the culling stage of editing.
3. "When you are good at something it makes you not want to take photos unless they are up to your standard, and not every day can provide that." This is something shitty photographers tell themselves to justify not taking pictures. In fact, this is something that all shitty so-called practitioners of everything tell themselves to justify not practicing their art and/or craft. It's bullshit. If you practice a skill, you get better at it. If you don't practice, what skills you had slowly disappear. The way you get a good picture isn't to sit around waiting for that perfect moment to fall into your lap, it's to go out and look for the perfect moment. At a minimum, go out and look for shots that might be good so you (a) get your muscle memory perfectly in tune with your camera for when you really need to catch that decisive moment and (b) get really good at spotting what is and is not going to actually make a good picture so that when something really spectacular comes along you don't waste time on the bad shots.
I'm constantly amazed that it's a controversial statement on this FUCKING PHOTOGRAPHY ENTHUSIAST MESSAGE BOARD that it's a good thing to OCCASIONALLY TAKE SOME FUCKING PICTURES.
