340. Good Advice

In the week of camping and picture taking at Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks, I took just slightly over 1000 photographs. That was light shooting for me, but still too many photographs. The problem with digital is that taking more images isn't any more expensive than taking one. Once you have the camera in hand, the rest is easy. The problem comes in editing. We all think, sure I will just delete it - but do we really want to spend the time going through all those unwanted photographs? I try to impress upon my students to get the shot right the first time and not just photograph for the heck of it. I never practice what I preach. In order to save time on the editing end I teach my students to only select the good photographs and ignore the bad. But of course again I don't listen to my own advice. I find myself editing out the bad shots time and time again.