Shots and Keepers

[MarkBarbieri]

How many pictures do you take in a day when on vacation? What percentage do you keep?

Looking back at past trips, I shoot about 200 shots a day on average and keep about 10% to 20%. When I build my trip summary slideshow, I usually include about 5% of my shots.

 

[garris3404]

Obn our last Disney trip in February, I took 2500 pictures over the 2 weeks (10 park hopper). I will print 750 for the photo albums. I plan to include about 1500 in the photo DVDs.

 

[0bli0]

it depends on what i'm shooting, and what defines 'keepers' (different keepers in different situations).

shooting rugby league, i'll have a high percentage of shots in focus and of the subject desired. but i'll generally whittle it down to the best shots that i feel i can sell - and that will depend on the age of the players.

baseball is the only sport where i use 'burst' mode - to try to get the timing of the batter or the action of the pitcher. i need more practice so my keeper percentage isn't the greatest. shooting cricket, on the otherhand is more predictable.

shooting portraits - generally everything will be in focus and exposed properly, but people usually only choose 1 or 2 poses.

street photography and photos of my daughter can be hit and miss bacuse i'm using a large aperture so a shallow depth of field, and the subject is always moving.

my last trip to Tokyo, i went to DisneySea where i shot 582 shots on the day. there were 37 images which were taken in the evening of something else so there were a total of 545 photos taken. in my gallery i have 409 images posted. there may be a few in there that aren't the best - but there were some similar shots which i didn't include so it's a wash. whoa, so that's exactly 75% keepers published to web on that trip. if i were sending a .pdf to have a book printed with the shots, i'd try to choose 40.

 

[JR6ooo4]

I have kept more than half of the gross from our four disney trips. But have printed only a few.

Mikeeee

 

[Marinerbaby]

I usually fill a 2G card per day(sometimes more, sometimes less) and the number depends whether I am shooting Jpeg or RAW. From our last Disney trip I kept about 70-75%. With a two year old (in motion all of the time) I find it hard to get better than that. Those were burnt to CD. I printed about 30% of those for albums and about 10-15 shots for enlargements (8x10 and 11x14).

For work the % can be a lot less because I shoot mostly children and babies and very few of my subjects are over five or six.