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Re: [OM] what % keepers do you get?

Subject: Re: [OM] what % keepers do you get?
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:08:46 -0700
From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>From each roll, how many photos are you happy with?

You mean there's a hard and fast formula?

I typically get between 0 and 36 good shots to a roll. :-)

Seriously, I'm amazed at how much variability I experience. Part of that is due to failed experiments. (Part of that is due to wildly successful experiments! :-) Most of it is probably due to inspiration -- when I'm really happy with what I'm seeing, I take more "keepers."

But I actually have some statistics. In my digital archive, I assign between 0 and five stars as a keyword to photos that I really like. I currently have 2283 images:

146 (6.4%) got *
144 (6.3%) got **
 72 (3.2%) got ***
  8 (0.35%) got ****
  2 (0.088%) got *****

Note that it's not a bell-curve. I'm probably harder on my own work than others would be.

... I feel
good if I get 3/24. The rest may be good, but there's something that could
have been better.

So I only found about 160f my shots worthy of rating. That's not too far off from your 3/24 (13%).

But how do you define "keepers?" Of the images I've been paid for or had published, none have as much as a single star. My ADITL shot (which one person wrote to tell me it was her favorite!) didn't get any stars.

One thing I've discovered in attempting an archive is that it is a very difficult task to "rate" images. I ended up defining the meaning of my star rating as, "Do I really like this image?" This is not the same thing as "Would you like this image?" or "Would a panel of distinguished photography judges like this image?" or "Would someone pay me for this image?"


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