Are you guilty of taking too many pictures?

[ultimate weapon]

Got myself a new lens from Sony called the qx100. It's a lens that pairs up with a phone so its quite good bit the battery life isn't that good I guess. Lets see I visited the botanic gardens in my home country and I took like over 300 pics in there in the day time spent like 3-4 hours at the park. I took around I think 180 shots at night the other day.

One of my worries is that I took a bad shot so I usually take another one so I have a few pictures of the same subject to choose from. I also change the settings around different res and modes.

Will be going to Thailand again soon as a tourist and the last thing I want is to have a camera that has no battery power left so just a question do you think I take too many shots, how many shots do you take when u go on a holiday

[MJP]

I take too few when I'm in the UK, but this down to having lost the will to live more than anything else.

When I'm home in Thailand I sometimes go out on little missions with one or two primes for a specific task. Like the end of harvest burning, or going to Mukdahan market, I pick a subject and a genre and a lens and I stick to it for the day.

That's fun.

Being stuck in this shithole isn't.

[Guest]

I take plenty of bad shots compared to the ones I keep. The life goes on so fast that there is not really time to say "this could be a great shot, please be like you are for the next 30 seconds". After all it would be artificial photos.

I mostly use the automatic preset on the camera as a computer can calculate far faster than I can when it comes to a generic shots. I can always switch the camera on more manual modes if I wish to do more artistic photos.

Camera battery lasts for one day. I had a spare battery with my previous camera. I used the spare battery twice last year.

[MJP]

I take plenty of bad shots compared to the ones I keep. The life goes on so fast that there is not really time to say "this could be a great shot, please be like you are for the next 30 seconds". After all it would be artificial photos.

I mostly use the automatic preset on the camera as a computer can calculate far faster than I can when it comes to a generic shots. I can always switch the camera on more manual modes if I wish to do more artistic photos.

Camera battery lasts for one day. I had a spare battery with my previous camera. I used the spare battery twice last year.

I reckon my keeper rate is around 15-20%.

[Guest]

I reckon my keeper rate is around 15-20%.

Just think how great photos we would take and share if we would decide that we are allowed to keep only one photo in a day, whatever happens.

There would not be series of photos to describe an event. There would be just one, which would have to describe the whole thing.

I guess the great photographers are able to do that. Why should we be any different?

[Genericnic]

The main difference between amateur photographers and professionals is that amateurs show you every picture they shot.

I take a LOT of pictures but I am a hard editor. Years ago, I went to Japan for 3 weeks. During the time I was there, I took over 4,000 images. By the time I finished editing them, there were only about 150 or so that I would consider to be of showable quality and less than a third of those that I consider as being me best work.

Take as many pictures as you need to fully work a subject (within the time you have available) and then edit with a critical eye. If you take a hundred images and only end up with one that is super good, only show that one. It will be more memorable if it is not lost in the forrest of not as great images.

Just my thoughts.

David

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[MJP]

The main difference between amateur photographers and professionals is that amateurs show you every picture they shot.

I take a LOT of pictures but I am a hard editor. Years ago, I went to Japan for 3 weeks. During the time I was there, I took over 4,000 images. By the time I finished editing them, there were only about 150 or so that I would consider to be of showable quality and less than a third of those that I consider as being me best work.

Take as many pictures as you need to fully work a subject (within the time you have available) and then edit with a critical eye. If you take a hundred images and only end up with one that is super good, only show that one. It will be more memorable if it is not lost in the forrest of not as great images.

Just my thoughts.

David

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I'm slow these days. Even slower than I was before . . . when I was five. I was slow then too. But now I'm even slower. I tend to plod about with my old M42 manual focus primes not really giving a F. Keeper rate is about 80%.

It depends on what I'm shooting. The kids sports day was the toughest. Even in perfect light that Pentax K-5 IIs with the FA31 and FA77 screw-drive lenses were a nightmare to nail focus, Pentax not previously known for AF speed, K-3 is way better. Keeper rate about 15%. Loy Krathong low light shooting, manual at f/1.2. . . 10%.

[puukao]

I am guilty of taking the "temple" picture because a cute woman is walking by. after 23,239 of those pictures, I stopped.

[MJP]

I am guilty of taking the "temple" picture because a cute woman is walking by. after 23,239 of those pictures, I stopped.

Post them up! Post them up!!!

[ultimate weapon]

The main difference between amateur photographers and professionals is that amateurs show you every picture they shot.

I take a LOT of pictures but I am a hard editor. Years ago, I went to Japan for 3 weeks. During the time I was there, I took over 4,000 images. By the time I finished editing them, there were only about 150 or so that I would consider to be of showable quality and less than a third of those that I consider as being me best work.

Take as many pictures as you need to fully work a subject (within the time you have available) and then edit with a critical eye. If you take a hundred images and only end up with one that is super good, only show that one. It will be more memorable if it is not lost in the forrest of not as great images.

Just my thoughts.

David

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That's right but you know sometimes you just cannot bear to not shoot.

For me when i visit a new place or get a new camera i just need to take of every angle especially in a new place cos i guess i want to capture every instance.

[sunshine51]

I tend to work my subject, whatever it is, with a very critical eye then edit with even a

more, uncompromising eye/mindset. Then comes the final cut...even more critical than

the previous. As for amount of frames this depends upon the job & subject. An example;

I'm currently in KL working the MH370 story. The daily pressers are a complete bore

not to mention a huge gangbang of photojourno's. My most highly shot day was a week

ago when I shot over 300 frames just of the presser. In the end I filed only 2.

At yesterdays presser I shot 20 frames and filed zero. Such is life.

Edited March 18, 2014 by sunshine51

[HooHaa]

yes, take as many as you want but only share the very best ones.

[ultimate weapon]

I tend to work my subject, whatever it is, with a very critical eye then edit with even a

more, uncompromising eye/mindset. Then comes the final cut...even more critical than

the previous. As for amount of frames this depends upon the job & subject. An example;

I'm currently in KL working the MH370 story. The daily pressers are a complete bore

not to mention a huge gangbang of photojourno's. My most highly shot day was a week

ago when I shot over 300 frames just of the presser. In the end I filed only 2.

At yesterdays presser I shot 20 frames and filed zero. Such is life.

Oh your a journalist or some type of news reporter right?

Interesting you must spend a lot of time looking over your pictures to edit and select them after taking them.

It can get tiring looking at pictures after a while selecting which ones to keep or delete. After all this is a hobby to me.

[MJP]

I tend to work my subject, whatever it is, with a very critical eye then edit with even a

more, uncompromising eye/mindset. Then comes the final cut...even more critical than

the previous. As for amount of frames this depends upon the job & subject. An example;

I'm currently in KL working the MH370 story. The daily pressers are a complete bore

not to mention a huge gangbang of photojourno's. My most highly shot day was a week

ago when I shot over 300 frames just of the presser. In the end I filed only 2.

At yesterdays presser I shot 20 frames and filed zero. Such is life.

Oh your a journalist or some type of news reporter right?

Interesting you must spend a lot of time looking over your pictures to edit and select them after taking them.

It can get tiring looking at pictures after a while selecting which ones to keep or delete. After all this is a hobby to me.

No, no. Sunshine's an amateur like the rest of us here. He's got an old 30D and a 50/1.8.

He does work wonders with it though.

[ultimate weapon]

I tend to work my subject, whatever it is, with a very critical eye then edit with even a

more, uncompromising eye/mindset. Then comes the final cut...even more critical than

the previous. As for amount of frames this depends upon the job & subject. An example;

I'm currently in KL working the MH370 story. The daily pressers are a complete bore

not to mention a huge gangbang of photojourno's. My most highly shot day was a week

ago when I shot over 300 frames just of the presser. In the end I filed only 2.

At yesterdays presser I shot 20 frames and filed zero. Such is life.

Oh your a journalist or some type of news reporter right?

Interesting you must spend a lot of time looking over your pictures to edit and select them after taking them.

It can get tiring looking at pictures after a while selecting which ones to keep or delete. After all this is a hobby to me.

No, no. Sunshine's an amateur like the rest of us here. He's got an old 30D and a 50/1.8.

He does work wonders with it though.

Then why is he working on a news story and why was he at a press conference and takes so many pictures.

[phuketrichard]

I take plenty of bad shots compared to the ones I keep. The life goes on so fast that there is not really time to say "this could be a great shot, please be like you are for the next 30 seconds". After all it would be artificial photos.

I mostly use the automatic preset on the camera as a computer can calculate far faster than I can when it comes to a generic shots. I can always switch the camera on more manual modes if I wish to do more artistic photos.

Camera battery lasts for one day. I had a spare battery with my previous camera. I used the spare battery twice last year.

I reckon my keeper rate is around 15-20%.

funny; when i shot film ( which means i was very specific about what i shot) my keeper rate was 15-20%, Ie ones i liked and was willing to work with

now with digital its less than 10% same as above

but many are shots from diferent angles, exposures etc.

i shoot Raw an Basic an throw away 35% as soon as i look at them in Bridge

Many i just keep the basic shots to have to see where i was a tthe time

[sunshine51]

I tend to work my subject, whatever it is, with a very critical eye then edit with even a

more, uncompromising eye/mindset. Then comes the final cut...even more critical than

the previous. As for amount of frames this depends upon the job & subject. An example;

I'm currently in KL working the MH370 story. The daily pressers are a complete bore

not to mention a huge gangbang of photojourno's. My most highly shot day was a week

ago when I shot over 300 frames just of the presser. In the end I filed only 2.

At yesterdays presser I shot 20 frames and filed zero. Such is life.

Oh your a journalist or some type of news reporter right?

Interesting you must spend a lot of time looking over your pictures to edit and select them after taking them.

It can get tiring looking at pictures after a while selecting which ones to keep or delete. After all this is a hobby to me.

Yes I'm a photojournalist & have been for 30 years.

Working the story is only a third of the job. The remaining two thirds is pretty much editing

or as you say "looking over your pictures to edit and select them after taking them." One

submits only the pix that match the story and the pix must also be good. I also edit for the

agency that sends me on jobs so I get to edit other photogs pix. It's hell on the eyes even

with a 15" screen on a notebook. And yes it does get very tiring not only on the eyes but

also the head when making crucial decisions because when doing field edits I'm the one

who must satisfy the bureau editor, not just the photog who took the pix.

Photography used to be only a hobby for me also...but that was a very long time ago.

Then again...it still is in a neat way.

Edited March 19, 2014 by sunshine51

[MJP]

He's unwell.

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[sunshine51]

^^^ MJP...

Yes! Yes! Yes! I am unwell. I'm freaking crazy and I know it!

I must finally admit I love sitting or standing sardines in a tin

style at government press conferences where the speakers

expound millions of litres of hot air mixed with a strong odour

of bovine excrement while attempting to explain the unexplainable

in a manner a moron could understand because it was morons

who wrote the presser's script...and still manage to say nothing

at all. All the while trying to take a few frames that explain moronic

bovine odours as well. And no longer is the remuneration for doing

this that good...Oh no, that ended after Gulf War I when the Derecks

took over the world, so I must be freaking crazy...or suffering from

BSE...I haven't decided yet as WebMD is slow to respond to my

queries. Or should I send my queries to WebVet instead?

Don't say any prayers for me...go out and have a few pints of

ale for me instead...and have a few pints for yourselves while

your at it!

[MJP]

^^^ MJP...

Don't say any prayers for me...go out and have a few pints of

ale for me instead...and have a few pints for yourselves while

your at it!

I can't go out. I've got norovirus and a rear molar beyond root canal.

It's a bad week.

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[MJP]

Sum up my week . . .

[bkkjames]

Quality over quantity.

I think the digital camera age has made us lazy. Yes there are many positives about not having to pay for film, development and prints but for the most part too many people capture anything and everything and hope 1 out of 100 are worth giving a second look.

Composition, lighting - what are those the young selfie addicted ask?

On the plus side, it's easier to experiment (easier as in fast results, more cost effective) for those with a touch of creativity in their blood.

[sunshine51]

^^^bkkjames...I couldn't agree more with your statement about the digital age.

If one had to pay for film, processing & printing these days...when money is

very tight, not many cameras would be sold. People who used a Polaroid of

any kind loved them...but not the cost of Polaroid film packs...unless they

were "pro's". Polaroid is now pretty much history. Back in the days when

everything was shot on film photog's who shot hundreds to get maybe one

or two were known as barrage shooters and shunned by the rest of us mainly

because their flashes would muck up our shots when we took them. That

still happens today...just watch the news on TV and see the deluge of flashes

when the main subject looks up or shakes some twits hand or whatever. It

hasn't really changed...except that almost no money changes hands for

processing. And IMO....it's only gonna get worse instead of better as the

kids of today know nothing else.

[sunshine51]

Sum up my week . . .

I thought you had the G.I's & a problematic molar?

[MJP]

Sum up my week . . .

I thought you had the G.I's & a problematic molar?

I do.

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[sunshine51]

Immodium & panadol my friend...get well soon.

[MJP]

Immodium & panadol my friend...get well soon.

Must get it all out.

I tell you, honest to God, this norovirus is one of the worst doses of anything I've experienced. So bad has it been, it took away the pain of the dysfunctional molar.

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[bkkden]

I often go to Botswana in the Okavango Delta and on a typical 21 day trip would shoot about 5,000. Once I am done with everything I end up with about 150-200 magazine quality shots.

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