Last weekend I shot in San Francisco and took about 350 shots. I posted 10 to Zooomr, about 50-75 were family shots (which I don't usually post to Zooomr, so don't think you should count). There's probably 10-20 other photos I consider "keepers".

Hi hvl, interesting topic. I guess it really depends on what you're shooting. If i have a lot of time for the setup, there's a 50% chance. But if i shoot on the streets, maybe one of a hundred is a keeper.

I think something like 1:20 on a good day.

I guess digital saved everyone, imagine how much money you would have to waste in processing all these pix before you switched to a digital camera

On my most recent shooting session, I shot 333 photos and posted 17 to my Zooomr page. That means I kept about 5%.

Yeah I'd say around 5% too, though I still keep the rest, but I guess that's not your definition of a keeper.

On a typical shoot I might shoot around 400 photos and keep maybe 50.

Thank you for your replies and keep them coming. When shooting on the street I probably keep about 2-5 out of 200 (yeah, I suck). In a more controled environment it may rise up to 50% of the photos taken.

intersting ill have to keep track

ok here are my stats of 199
shots taken i have:
32 treasures-(best of keeper)
49 oks-(keepers but not the best)
43 art shots(i might not even try these if i were not posting online!)and
73 that are out and out deletes!

Mine is around 10 - 20%. In my case, post-processing helps save some at-first-sight unusable photos.

I agree w/ 23, it really does depend on the topic of your shots. When I shoot skateboard shots... the trick has to be landed, timing has to be perfect.. most of the time i'm at the mercy of the skater.

about 5%, and if they don't come out of the camera right, that's it.

10%.

I'm really selective with my work and try allot of things. Bracketing of the save exposure decrease the keeprs from 300% so it really depends the way I shoot. I usually keep 1-3 awesome pictures from a 36 exposures rool, but with digital I may post even less than 1% of my pictures taken.

In fact I just posted around 120 pictures last year and shoot like nuts.

there is an unnofficial rule among pros that "it is a good shoot if you get one decent shot out of a roll of film." Now, if we're not talking about bulk-loaded cameras, we can assume the roll is 12 shots, at best. that's about 8%...for professionals. Ametuers can expect a much lower return obviously. this saying predates digital photography, however.

I tend to use the shotgun approach with my digital...shoot everything and sort it out later. I did a xmas shoot with my family. after about 300 shots throughout the week, I got maybe 10 I liked...about 3%. In my defense, I was doing some experimenting and my subjects were uncooperative young children.

I think 1 in 20 are keepers, and 1 in 50 are pictures I actually like. It is nice therefore that i can look round zooomr, and find lots of pictures i like, I don't have to take 50!

My case is a little special. My job consists of taking photos of places for commercial shootings. Usually on a day's work I take some 500-700 pictures, but those shouldn't count.
And then the keepers ratio is always different depending what I am shooting. If I'm doing close-ups I usually have a 1 in 5 ratio.

But my wild guess is that of 1 in 20. Most of my pics are online here.

Recently shot 2057 shots over 6 days, and I only kept 200. If I filter some more, I think the final number will be around 100.

So 5-10% for me.

Everything's a keeper to me and if I could, I'd post every photo I take. I've taken over 2,100 photos since January 1, 2008.

5-10%

Yesterday I took 170 pictures and I kept about 40. Of those 40 about 10 I actually liked and the rest were just used for "event shots"