One mans trash is another mans treasure....................

[Barbara Ponder]

Wow! I love hearing all the different answers and reasoning!

If this had been asked back in the time of film I doubt there would have been as much discussion. It was so much more expensive and you had to be very particular on your shots or carry a heck of a lot of film and spend a lot of money on the processing!

Thanks everyone for playing along!

[Barbara Ponder]

I don't wonder so much about what they look like but I do wonder about what the cull ratio is for other wildlife photographers. I feel like I should be doing a better job of utilizing the technology of my equipment so every spring when the birds show up I go through the whole cycle again of trying all the different focus modes. And at the end of the exercise I end up back shooting single point. No doubt I'll do it again this year because I have a camera with Nikon's new "group" focus which I haven't tried yet.

I am the same way, granted doing for much less time and not as well . I only use the single point as well and with my new camera it is all kinds of special AF that is suppose to be for especially good for BIF. I find that my keep ration is fairly high on BIF IF I focused on the eye and continued shooting moving with the bird as it moved. My biggest issue is still setting aperture, shutter speed and ISO. I lose many more to those than the actual focusing.

[IzzieK]

Izzie I know exactly what you are talking about. I just purchased a new computer as my last one could hold no more (at least that's what I told the hubby when making the sales pitch) I now use an external drive and only put a very few on my actual hard drive. Now what to do with the other external hard drive, it's photos and the old computers hard drive.......

You makes me laugh...I just finished making my sales pitch about what I want for my birthday next month...then went upstairs because he is doing taxes and I don't want to be in his way...sort of like I am tippy toe-ing even though he said yes, give me your list after I did the taxes and I'll see what I can do...

As for the extra hard drives, my husband always buy an external case for them and use them as an external drive after formatting the darn things. With mine, I couldn't be bothered -- I just buy a new one and give him my old ones. I m easy...

[NorthernFocus]

...I find that my keep ration is fairly high on BIF IF I focused on the eye and continued shooting moving with the bird as it moved. My biggest issue is still setting aperture, shutter speed and ISO. I lose many more to those than the actual focusing.

You've got the hard part down if you can get them in focus.

[Mike Buckley]

do you ever wish you could see what each of us calls our discard shots?

Nope, no interest whatsoever unless the person who captured a discard thinks there is something in particular that we can learn from the mistake. Even so, though I learn from my mistakes, I learn more from others' successes more than their mistakes.

God made the Delete key for a reason and a darned good one it is!

[loosecanon]

One image I have from the early 1970's was taken from the top of a disused power station of the neighbouring disused gas works.
Despite searching I have yet to find a better image of the gas works at that time, but I would have called it a failure, but with film negatives one keeps the strip failure and all.
The second image is of a factory building just as it closed down. Taken in Heavy rain its not a good photograph, but a week later the building had gone, and the multinational who had taken it over had as far as can be found out, destroyed all records.