I used to take a lot of photos and then cull them afterwards before editing. It worked, although I was often loving shooting and dreading editing, because before doing any actual editing, I'd have 200 photos to sift through.
After a lot of practice, I became better at culling in my head, before even taking the photos. This has shifted my relationship with photography to more of a cognitive exercise, with a different set of enjoyments. I take far fewer photos overall - often I go out with a camera and don't even take a single shot. Editing is more enjoyable because there's less to do and I already know what edits I want. It's less naively fun but more contently fulfilling.
I found myself noticing the 10% keep rate a few months back and now keep that as as shooting target. I want 30 photos from today, better capture 300 times.
The typing part is easy. Honestly the backlighting is mainly useful for a few situations:
1. Hitting an FKey or the keys like brightness that use the Fkeys.
2. Locating the Fn key on PC laptops (honestly even on the Mac I forget that it's in the corner)
3. tapping a keyboard shortcut like `,` or `c` while watching YouTube
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