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This is a bad picture. Elements of it may be useful in composite work, or for background fodder, but make no mistake, this is awful. So maybe you're new to photography, or struggling, or just looking at your work and saying "no, nothing here." Well take heart, everyone takes terrible pictures, some more than others, but everyone does it. I have broken a key photography rule on this post: Only show your best work, however, I felt that, since so many photographers don't share their secrets, short comings, or failures with others, that this was needed, to encourage and embolden photographers who might be having a tough time with their photo to yield rate (ie: "I take 500 photos and keep 8" *insert sadness*). We all take some stinkers, some just terrible "photos" that are a staggering waste of memory card space, and sully both our hard drives and minds. But that's part of the game. Old school film photographers, and adherents of the old style of photography are sticklers about getting it right in camera, first try, whenever possible, and though there's nothing wrong with that, and it is, dare I say, good photographic practice, the practical realities of our digital era have changed the way the creative process is defined for a new generation of up and coming photographers. We no longer have to limit ourselves to a few dozen shots on costly rolls of film, but rather, a few thousand, on cheap, re-writeable memory cards, and so, the practical and financial incentive is no longer present to be cautious and deliberate with every exposure. The effect on this phenomenon on the photographic community at large has yet to be completely understood, though my feeling is, the same amount of good photographers exist, and is even growing, but there's more bad work out there too, because of the ease of exchange and display of photos and portfolios. What this means for those of us who came into our own during the age of the DSLR is complex, and could be an article of it's own, but the short version is, you will take a lot of pictures, and many (or even most) will be B grade or worse, so that should be comforting to many of you who took 500 photos on a shoot, and only selected a handful for display. I do this all the time, and what I’ve discovered is, I may take a zillion photos and keep 15, but the ones that I choose not to display do get noticeably better as time progresses, as do the keepers, which is a side effect of the old rule: Practice makes perfect.
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