Don’t Delete Your Digital Photography Mistakes Too Quickly
One last tip on the whole taking more shots strategy:
If you have the space on your memory card I would recommend that you don’t delete too many shots while you’re out and about and wait until you get back to your computer to do so.
The reason I suggest waiting is that quite often some of the ‘mistake’ shots can actually end up being some of your best shots (in an abstract sort of way).
When you look at images on your camera’s LCD the photo is obviously quite compressed and you can sometimes not see details that you would when you view it on your computer. There may actually be something quite useful tucked away in the details that you’ll never know about if you delete too quickly.
For example - the picture on this post was taken on the streets in Morocco a few years back on my first little point and shoot digital camera. It was actually a complete accident that I took the shot (I thought I was turning the camera off when I was actually pressing the shutter). At first glance it is an out of focus and poorly framed shot (actually it’s that on a second look too) but there’s something about this shot that keeps drawing me back to it.
It might not win any awards but it actually means something quite deep to me (I won’t go into it here) and I’m very grateful that I didn’t immediately delete it as a mistake.
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