When you see a photo in a newspaper or in a sports feature or anywhere for the public eye to see, you may not realize how many photographs were taken to get that one good usable one.

Photographers take so many photos to get that one you see. Not only this, but all of those other photos are not necessarily pristine or even usable. In this post, I’ve included some of my own photos from that past that I would consider usable paired with those from the same exact photoshoot.

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Outtake:

No comment even needed for this first one.

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Sports photography is a perfect situation to take hundreds of photos and only get less than a dozen that can be used.

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If you’re looking to get into photography but don’t feel great about it because of all the photos you take without good return, keep on looking a little deeper because even the best photographer doesn’t get a perfect shot with every photograph they take.