[stevekemp]

I used to hire models to pose me, or have people volunteer. I'd expect to take maybe 500 pictures an hour, and out of that get ten average results and one perfect image.

Taking more images is absolutely a valid approach to photography! Of course it gets harder if you're shooting children or animals, where you need to react and be in the moment, anticipating.

It's also something that can't be done if you're planning to be constrained by analog film, or plotting and planning every shot in advance. But those styles never worked for me anyway - too much planning and trying to craft-in-advance just feels sterile and fake to me.