>>3415077>probably 80-90% of it would end up being garbageOkay, let’s explore this philosophy.
Say that right now, you only go try to get a good shot once a month or so. And let’s assume for the sake of argument that you actually succeed. That’s twelve good shots per year. Now, imagine that you do a 365 and 90% of it is crap—in addition to those 12 good shots you would’ve gotten, you now also have a good 90% of 365 attempts at a good photograph, which is 36 good photos, plus the 12 you would’ve gotten normally. Congratulations, you’ve now quadrupled your decent photographic output for the year. And what about if you’re on the good end and only 80% is crap? That’s 85 good shots for the year instead of 12.
NOW, if that weren’t good enough, allow me to share one little trick for getting better photos: actually try. Don’t half ass it. Don’t do it begrudgingly because you need to fill a daily requirement. Keep your camera on you every day and always keep your eye out for a good shot and make the effort to get off your ass on those days that you would otherwise just not shoot anything. You’ll find that you get way better than 10% non-crap. In fact, the longer you do it, the easier it will get. And in fact, your criteria for what’s good and what isn’t will shift, so things you thought were good at the start will seem like crap at the end because the things that you shoot that are good are WAY BETTER just from sheer amount of practice you put in.
Yeah, there will always be some days where you just phone it in, but you’ll find those get fewer and fewer as you go along. You’ll get better at recognizing where you can go to mine good pictures. If you take a few photos at events, for instance, and post them on Facebook, you’ll get lots of friend requests from people at those events and they’ll invite you to more events and you can shoot those and so on and so forth until you’re a well known and respected event photographer.
