"DJC" wrote in message ...
On 24/09/15 11:41, whisky-dave wrote:
Is that why non photographers take more pictures, because they haven't a
clue how to take a good picture so rely on luck.

Professional photographers take lots of pictures, you only see the good
ones. In days of film only a professional could contemplate that 'waste'
of film.

However my grandpa had a friend who used to take photos for the local paper
as a sideline, probably around the 1930s. Sometimes his job was to take
photos of the local football matches. The paper gave him a small number of
plates (older technology - not even frames of film!) and expected him to
come back with every one of them a good photo that was capable of being
printed. Talk about working under pressure! Nowadays sports photographers
probably take hundreds or thousands of photos of a sports event, and then
select the ones where they have caught the action at just the right moment
and where the right part of the subject is in focus.