When I take 100 photos, I get:

• 10 to 15 OK photos
• 5 to 10 good photos
• 1 to 5 very good to excellent

That's a 90% failure rate! Or only a 10% success rate. In baseball, Babe Ruth had a 39.3% success rate. In Football¹⁾, a good quarterback will have a 40% passing rate, an outstanding quarterback will have a 50% plus success ratio. National Geographic photographers from Steven Alvarez to Natalie Fobes only have 5 to 10 photos published per thousand, with another 20 to 50 other photos used for other media than the National Geographic Magazine, such as Internet, promos…

The difference between me and all these sports athletes and National Geographic photographers, is that I can hide and delete my bad photos:

• Out of focus: very rare
• Wrong focus: focus is sharp, but not on the right spot, such as the eyes…
• Bad or distracting background
• Bad or poor composition
• …

In the the “good old days”, people checked your contact sheets²⁾.

Back to study, practice, and work.