TIme to shoot

By now you have read my posts about composition, and if you haven't you can go back in the archives and read them or not its your choice. So is the next topic up for discussion, choice and desire. If you want to be a good photog and you want to take great pictures you have to go out and shoot. I learned alot of my early photographic lessons from my Dad. Dad used to tell me that out of every roll of 24 he shot he would get two good images and one great image. Out of every 4 or 5 rolls he might get one image he deemed worthy of having made into a print. I used to have two of those hanging in my living room. They have since returned to him for display.

From that little lesson the mathematician in me learned that out of every 120 or so exposuers I would get something great. Well with digital it is more now, largely because I experiment more, pixels are cheap. The real nugget Dad was getting at is, you have to practice. Do you think that {insert favorite music artist here} just walked on stage and started to perform at the top of their game? Did {insert favorite sports star} learned to move that well in one day? Of course not. They practiced and they practiced alot. As a photographer you have to practice and you have to learn the tools of your craft.

I find that I shoot on average2 to 5 thousand image a month. That's right I said 2000-5000 images a month, and did I mention that is just the practice ones. Not the ones I am asked to go take for someone. I might leave a soccer match with between 250-1000 images on my cards. A lot depends on the action of the game and the conditions and if I am getting what I want. Now asked me how many I keep. Go ahead...ask me? That's right out of a single soccer game with lets say 500 images I may only keep 100 or less.

To that end starting tomorrow on 7/1 I will post an image a day for the entire month of July. I am not going to shoot cutes themes. I am simply going to take my camera with me when I go about my day and I when an image is found I will take it. I hop you enjoy the images and I hope that they reinforce my point. If you want to be good at something do it alot.

'till next time keep the shutter click'n!

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