The single biggest advantage of Digital photography is the minuscule marginal costs involved, which allows for a high attrition rate on 'important' occasions, and for plenty of 'messing around', perhaps just in the house or garden.
I am beginning to learn to have multiple attempts at the same photo. What am I less good at is being brutal at deleting them. I have a a mindset which says - if I just play around in the editing software, it will be all right. Obviously, if there is a photo that's badly exposed or composed but captures an unrepeatable fleeting moment, it can be worth the effort.
I have a silly way of going through editing my photos. I find if I do them in strict chronological order boredom quickly sets in, especially when there are great similarities between the photos.
The special place on the autistic spectrum which enables me to be an accountant/auditor dictates that I do them in a particular order, using the unique reference number. I know it's silly, I know it's trainspottery, I know it leads to severe delays while I wait for a set to be complete.
However, the advantage is that when I have similar shots, I approach them differently on different occasions, rather than slavishly following the 'inspiration' of the edit done two weeks ago.
A few weeks ago I took a few snaps in the back garden; as it happens of some wallflowers. I set the camera to Focus bracket, so basically took the same photo three times with near, middle and far exposure. I edited them on different days.
A few days later I read in a photography book that it's a good learning exercise to pick a colour and take photos of anything you see in that colour. So I rushed round the house taking indifferent pictures of orange things.
I am not yet sure what I am supposed to learn from this, and in the meantime I have, and will be, distracted by other things photographic. Nevertheless, it is an exercise I may repeat in the future with another colour. And I did manage to get one more orange thing the next day on a lunchtime perambulation.
