{"id":2214,"date":"2014-11-14T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2014-11-14T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:43:03","slug":"11973-photos-too-many-or-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"11,973 Photos – Too Many or Not Enough ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

11,973 Photos: Too many, or not enough ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before you answer – think about what do Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Salvador Dali and Rembrandt have in common ?.<\/p>\n

None of these painters were \u2018one hit wonders\u2019; their career and popularity was not based on a single painting. They went to school, learned from the masters, imitated the masters, and developed their own techniques, and most importantly, they practiced their technique\u2026they painted, and painted and painted.<\/p>\n

The same for can be said for photographers. Annie Leibovitz, Joe McNally, Ansel Adams,\u00a0 Yousuf Karsh, Henri Cartier-Bresson were not \u2018one hit wonders\u2019; each of these photographers took large numbers of photos during their lifetime.<\/p>\n

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Outliers’ he claims that the key to success in any field is, is for the most part due to practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.\u00a0 The same concept applies to photographers;<\/p>\n

\u201cYour first 10,000 photographs are your worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2015 Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/p>\n

With modern cameras, you can hold down the shutter release and easily take 10,000 photos. By the math, with a camera that can take 7 frames per second it would take 1428 seconds (or only 24 minutes). Doing this doesn’t achieve anything other than get a blister on your thumb !.<\/p>\n

Those 10,000 photos need to be creative, they need intellectual thought, emotion and consideration of point of view, angle, shutter speed, aperture, composition, subject, and lighting. These are but a few things to consider.<\/p>\n

Those 11,973 photos – is is enough, or not enough ?. It is not all about the numbers; practice and experience is better.<\/p>\n

The take-away message is:<\/p>\n

Don’t count the number of photos.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is better to enjoy what you are doing, learn from what you are doing and and the end of the day, keep only the best.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be like the monkey in this photo with a bag of garbage: eat (keep) the good stuff, and toss the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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