A shot I think was great ten years ago might look pretty average now. But a shot I took ten years ago that I still think is great? Then it's great.
I couldn't put an exact number on it, but it's certainly less than ten percent of the shots I've ever taken, and that's quite a lot of photos. That doesn't mean that 90-plus percent of my shots are garbage (those get deleted). They're OK, they may even be good, but just not "great".
Joe McNally has a great phrase. If I remember right, he called it the "pucker factor" (try saying that fast). It's the feeling you get when you absolutely know beyond all doubt that you've taken a real cracker of a shot, and by that definition it is rare.
And if you evaluate too many of your shots as "great", then you have to raise your game to make "great" harder to get...
100% hobbyist here.
A shot I think was great ten years ago might look pretty average now. But a shot I took ten years ago that I still think is great? Then it's great.
I couldn't put an exact number on it, but it's certainly less than ten percent of the shots I've ever taken, and that's quite a lot of photos. That doesn't mean that 90-plus percent of my shots are garbage (those get deleted). They're OK, they may even be good, but just not "great".
Joe McNally has a great phrase. If I remember right, he called it the "pucker factor" (try saying that fast). It's the feeling you get when you absolutely know beyond all doubt that you've taken a real cracker of a shot, and by that definition it is rare.
And if you evaluate too many of your shots as "great", then you have to raise your game to make "great" harder to get...