{"id":1530,"date":"2015-11-07T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2015-11-07T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T12:25:04","slug":"on-not-getting-the-shot-that-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/on-not-getting-the-shot-that-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"On Not Getting The Shot That You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t always get what we want.\u00a0 But if you try sometime, you find, you get what you need.\u00a0 Deep right?\u00a0 I just made that up…\u00a0 It’s all me…\u00a0 Don’t look it up.*\u00a0 What’s your success rate in photography?\u00a0 Have you ever sat down and crunched the numbers?\u00a0 Think about it, if you’ve made a handful of truly<\/em> great images in a year, and you took 5,000 images (let’s assume a virtual handful is 6 in this example), your hit or success rate would only be .12%.\u00a0 But guess what?\u00a0 You aren’t alone.<\/p>\n

* Rolling Stones actually made that up.\u00a0 It’s lyrics from their song You Can’t Always Get What You Want.\u00a0 But shame on you for not knowing that.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s generally rather depressing to look at my contacts – one always has great expectations, and they’re not always fulfilled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elliot Erwitt (Magnum Contact Sheets)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Many of the greats before you and I figured out early on that truly great photographs demand patience and preparation.\u00a0 Like anything in life, preparation is 90% of the equation (like most statistics on the internet, I just made that one up…\u00a0 But you get the point).\u00a0 Preparation is the reason I have a camera with me 99.9% of the time.\u00a0 I’m not exaggerating, if it’s not one of my professional cameras it’s my iPhone…\u00a0 The only place my phone does not go with me is the shower (get on that Apple).<\/p>\n

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Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/p>\n

Patience is a virtue in life and photography.\u00a0 You’ve got to be patient enough to wait for a great shot when you are out and about with your camera and you’ve got to be patient enough to understand that you’ll go days, weeks, and sometimes months without getting that great shot.\u00a0 To be honest, the better you get at photography the harder it is to create great shots.\u00a0 Don’t worry though, that’s a good thing…\u00a0 That means than you’ve evolved along the way and you will continue to push past what you thought you were capable of.\u00a0 Being content with your abilities is a recipe for uninspired work.<\/p>\n

\"0314_untitled_048\"<\/a>Ultimately, if you prepare and remain patient you’ll endure long enough to capture the shot that you want.\u00a0 You’ve got the ability to create truly amazing photography if you continue to work hard at it.<\/p>\n

Both images you see here were taken with the Nikon Df:<\/p>\n

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What’s the craziest thing you’ve done to get a shot you want?\u00a0 I think mine would be to climb down a sheer cliff in my sandals and board shorts while on my honeymoon, when I look back and think about that I think it was quite dumb of me but in the moment…\u00a0 I wanted the shot.\u00a0 Leave your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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