Number of shots taken of the same subject

[Ari]

Portraits I will shoot until I get what I was after.
Everything else gets one shot, two if I knowingly flubbed the first.

[Alan Gales]

For what I shoot I'm pretty much a one shot guy except for portraiture. Getting the "right look" from someone is sometimes simple and occasionally an exercise in complete frustration.

I do admit that when I shot fast pitch softball with a D200/D300 I'd use the motor drive to catch the ball leaving the bat.

[Pfiltz]

I'm a hack. I shoot 1 piece of film per image.

[BrianShaw]

Generally 1 but I often wish I shot 2.

[Jmarmck]

Generally 1 but I often wish I shot 2.

Yeah, I'm finding this out. Not because of exposure, composition, or focus, but because of something else in the work flow.
In the field I generally take one or two from the same perspective but will move around to try and change the light (digital).
I find that the first one is normally the one selected.

As for LF, I am still getting use to it. I need to shoot more often.

[Michael E]

I used to shoot two identical exposures and process them separately for safety. Dust, scratches, development mishaps...

I don't do that any more because I never find enough time for darkroom work and duplicates simply double my film processing time. Accidents are far and in between, and since I mostly scan my negatives, I can spot my images in Photoshop.

[Old-N-Feeble]

I'm just getting started again but I never did and never will take less than two images of any given subject that isn't transient. Even if I'm absolutely certain of composition and exposure I take that second image as insurance against damage to the first one. The first image is processed and evaluated. If minor processing adjustment is needed then I make those changes on the second film. If no adjustments are needed then I process the second film the same and hold it in reserve. I might also try two different filters or different films. If I use two films and two filters each that's eight total images I might take... four combinations at two images each. This isn't always practicable but then... I'm not always logical.

[Kirk Gittings]

minimum of two always for insurance sake.

[Joe Smigiel]

With wetplate I see almost immediately what I have and will shoot a number of plates until I have it. It's more of a crap shoot than I'd like to admit. People move with longish exposure, the exposure might be better a little lighter or darker, and the processing is always different plate to plate ... I might also shoot one original for the sitter and keep the second. With film, I'll take two for insurance or if one will go for an alternative printing process like Van Dyke Brown. I'll change the development to boost contrast and density on the second sheet in that case.

And finally, with smaller roll film I generally do not bracket, but might take three identical exposures to make sure a good shot doesn't end up in a position at the end of a snip where the enlarger negative carrier might have a struggle holding it flat. One of three will always end up in the middle.

[Andrew O'Neill]

If I feel it's really special, or at a location I most likely not return, then I'll shoot two.