Comments on: What Percentage of Your Shots Are Worth Hanging?

By: What’s Your Experience With Film?

What’s Your Experience With Film? — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:45:00 +0000

[...] check out the poll results from last time “What Percentage of Your Shots Are Worth Hanging?” A majority of us fall into the “less than 1%” or “1-5%” categories, [...]

By: MTFanders

MTFanders — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:41:30 +0000

I have two on my walls. I would have more; but, $$$ is short with three very active kids.

This is my favorite: http://mannedspace.my-expressions.com/archives/8045_1510383550/225442
Second: http://mannedspace.my-expressions.com/archives/8045_1510383550/220318

By: Music Site

Music Site — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:25:54 +0000

I am a bad photographer, I like it but I am bad at it, this is why I like sometimes to come here to see what nice things I see or read about it here,

Thank you very much,
Regards.

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:06:42 +0000

I take each photo batch through a multi-step elimination process. Of the out-of-the-camera group only about 25% are saved for possible processing. Of those, about half are actually processed. Then maybe half of those are printed. Of those, I really like and consider frameworthy only one or two. They don’t get framed, though, as I’m short of wall space.

By: the_wolf_brigade

the_wolf_brigade — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:40:35 +0000

@Jim.

As film is now making a comeback, at least most in the form of ‘toy’ cameras, maybe in your case this is one of those moments where retro has become cool again? You might just be up with the times and not even know it!

(My two that are framed and hanging on my wall are also film…I don’t have more because my wife is not keen on removing the wedding pictures for me to put something of mine there )

By: Jim Goldstein

Jim Goldstein — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:33:14 +0000

Funny thing is a lot of my photographs are worthy of framing. Ironically as many images as I have framed most of those framed photographs end up sitting in a closet versus hanging on my wall. I need to change that. Just to give you an idea of how behind I am… all the photographs hanging in my home (all 4 of them) are from my film days.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:21:08 +0000

Interesting and very subjective; when I was a freelance I sold pictures that I didn’t like particularly and failed to sell shots Iiked a lot…not sure what that say’s about me or editors?

By: CyberCarsten

CyberCarsten — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:32:26 +0000

I went for 1-5%. Actually I applied little steelropes to the walls so I can hang prints without framing and change them easily (space for around 20 prints in A3 / A2). If I still like them after a few week; I’ll frame them.

A printed shot has a total better visual quality than on screen,

By: Chica

Chica — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:52:44 +0000

I’ve thought of this before, and I voted 25-50% because I love having stuff on my walls. I actually enjoy every single thing I make or do, and they would have that 25% chance of getting on my wall, if I had the space. It’s not really because I love every photograph, it’s because I have this obsession of covering my walls with things. Can’t stand a bare wall.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:44:28 +0000

I think the answer to this question will have just as much to with what kind of shooter you are as how “good” you are. I’ve been doing almost exclusively documentary photography. On a given day I will take minimum 200 shots. I would say I’m happy with 5-10% of them, and they become part of my project, so that’s what I answered. But I don’t think anyone would hang very many of those on a wall, just because they aren’t the kind of shots that people hang. I would think that a well practiced fine art photographer would be much much higher, because 1) they are trying to get that kind of image and 2) they shoot slower and work harder for each one.