> - but as Tom said "anything less than 100% means that I am incompetent" as a
> photographer. What do you (and others) think IS a realistic goal to aim
> for?
It partly depends on the usage of the images. I was taking some shots of honey bees
for a local beekeeper. I was using an MZ-S with Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro and either
FG360 flash or a manual ringflash. It was quite a difficult subject what with the bees
moving, trying to get the right angle, and me being in a beekeeper's outfit with the
netting, gloves, and such like. Bracketting was out of the question.
I took 2 films of 36 exposures, and from a photographic perspective considered I had 3
keepers, one of which has actually done quite well for me in a number of competitions.
However the beekeeper was delighted with about 50 of the slides and uses them in his
lectures about bees. You see, the ones I considered poor photographically due to the
bee being partly out of focus actually were good for him as they showed the number of
hairs on the legs or some other such feature.
When taking close-up natural history shots, particularly insect, I'm happy with just 1
or 2 keepers from a roll.
Cheers
Nick
