normally when I do a modeling shoot I take a lot more than 250 pictures. usually between 100-1000 depending on the length of the shoot, natural light w/ reflectors or strobes etc etc. If I am creating the lighting I end up with a lot fewer pictures but almost all of them are useable images. With natural lighting I shoot off a lot more frames but end up with a lot of throw aways. What I will do is go through the images and delete any images that are not up to snuff due to technical aspects. IE inproper exposure, OOF, odd shadows, distracting backgrounds, poor composition, etc. Then I will go thru the images that are left and rate each image 0-5 stars. any 3 star and above goes into proof sheets for closer review. all images under 2 star gets moved to a sub-folder for later use. After reviewing the images that are 3-5 star, if there are enough images that I think are keepers then I will delete the 2 star and under images. If I dont have enough I will go thru those images and see if any can be salvaged thru post processing.
Usually if I am doing a controlled lighting shoot. IE I am using multiple strobes, reflectors, umbrellas to control the lighting scene I will only shoot 100-200 images but I end up keeping 30-40 finished images. If it is a natural light type shoot I will usually shoot close to 1000 images and again end up with 30-40 finished images.
Oh and I will keep any 3 star or above images for future use if I want to process differently or whatever. but I try to start with the 5 star images and then work down I will not process all the images so I usually have about 20-40 images left over from each shoot that are unfinished. I try not to process too many photos where the model is wearing the same outfit or has the same pose but in different locations or is in the same location but different poses. I try to limit myself to only 4-5 images that look similar before I move on to different ones. which is why I end up with a decent number of keepers but are not finished.
How this helps. This is by no means saying that my system will work for you but it is what I do anyways.
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