Why would anyone care about this? Photography is not target practice. Even the best of the best shoot a lot to get very little.
FINALLY!! Someone has the courage to say it...
jsrockit, I give you a thousand 'likes' for this.
My second 'like' to Yokosuka_Mike for having gone even further, and put into posted words what I'm sure many of us have long thought.
You are both two very brave men.
I will now join you in the To Be Vilified List, and go further and say - a pox on anyone who takes 1,482 photos of last weekend's family picnic, and then posts the entire lot.
I bulk-load 12-exposures of 35mm B&W. I try to develop one roll a week. I seldom expose all 12 frames before I take the film out of the camera and develop it. On average I print about half of the images as 4x6 for friends and family. And of those "keeper" images I print about one a month in a larger size for display.
I am trying to be nice now. This poster is sensible. Minimalism in photography is good in the everything-so-expensive analog era. In fact this is what I have been doing since the 1980s - in the darkroom I cut one 8x10 sheet of paper into four 4/5 sheets, and print my images on those. A sort of new dimension to the once-popular contact sheet phenomenon we all once upon a time did. Mind you, storing the 50,000 or so prints I've made over the decades is not easy, but now I will let you all in on a secret - every few years I go thru the accumulation of prints, and shred like mad.
Seriously, we all have our own ways of going about our photography. Keeping everything in this day and age when many of us are ageing and have to downsize, is no longer a viable option. If pushed to the wall, I would go for keeping negatives more than prints. After all, many of us now scan everything rather than make paper prints.
An interesting thread. Let us agree to disagree on all this...
