As you might expect, photojournalists shoot a lot of frames on every assignment.
This is not the secret to good photography, its simply part of the process. We try to photograph a variety of situations in variety of ways to produce enough to choose from.

Sometimes, though, you do end up with many good photos. In these two editing examples, we boiled the choices down to two photos of a retiring teacher for the lead image and two photos of school-oriented goodbyes for a secondary image. Which ones would you choose?

In the end, we decided to use just one - the photo of Linda Tromsness getting group-hugged by students outside of their bus. We liked the sweetness of the moment and the clean composition.

Doesn't make us right. Its a subjective process.