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 02/05/2003 04:21:40 PM · #26
Originally posted by magnetic9999:
I think Gordon also has some good histogram links ...

One here with samples...
 02/05/2003 05:37:25 PM · #27
I cannot remember the last week that I did not shoot at least one photograph over the last year and several months. ( film included )
02/05/2003 06:55:50 PM · #28
I am a staff photographer at a newspaper so i shoot tons (300-400) of work photos each week. I have found that being a photographer at a newspaper requires less technical know how and relies more on having good instinct, timing and compossing skills. I joined DPC to sharpen the skills I don't use a lot at work and for this last challenge I shot 50-55 frames.
 02/05/2003 08:09:11 PM · #29
How much do I shoot. Not enough. I'm too busy with work during the week, plus it is dark when I leave for work and dark when I get back home.

I guess I'm a weekend photographer during the Winter. I'll take 100 takes or more for DP Challenges if I have to, though I've found that the one I pick is usually in the first 10 I shot.

I guess my patterns will change during the summer. I'll have more daylight and more subjects than this white shit they call snow (I need a vacation in really warm place)

02/05/2003 09:12:41 PM · #30
yes indeedy jacko! boy am i getting sick of snow. My car doors were frozen shut today, what a joy that is.

As for the "how much do you shoot question" .. i didn't really think about it much, but i did a quick calculation, and since i got the camera at christmas, i shot on average 30 pics a day. now, i KNOW there are days i dont even touch my camera, and days i'll shoot 150 pics..

I take my camera with me everywhere and probably 90% of my pics dont concern DPC. I'll usually only devote a single shooting session to DPC, that is *if* i have an idea of what i want to do. This week though, i'm so busy i doubt i'll have time to setup anything for the challenge, even though i'm still taking lots of pics every day.. i just dont have time to "prepare" anything.
 02/05/2003 10:59:54 PM · #31
Its really funny to me that this link was started because i was just about to post a similar one.
I just upgraded my camera less than one month ago and ive shot over a thousand pictures so far. Out of that ive came up with 15 or 20 that i really really like. I have a bad habit of holding on to almost all of the pictures i take and putting them on a cd so i dont fill up my hard drive.
I r5eally like to go for walks with my daughter and just try to find stuff to photograph. i dont consider myself good yet but i have noticed Improvement lately.
I think the more pictures you take along with the more you experiment along with the more you read, or research photography techiques and styles hte better youll get.
I really dont think i could ever take to many pictures, and i love it!!!!!!!!

02/05/2003 11:06:55 PM · #32
Well I know I started this, but I just had a look. Since I got my D60 in mid-November last year, I've taken (up until about 10 minutes ago) 3959 shots with it. That's an average of almost 50 pictures per day. I wish some of them had been good! My G2 has taken 7072 pictures since I got it the December before that, only an average of 17 per day.

I think I might be getting worse...I just worked out that if I'd shot that much film and had it developed (no prints, straight developing) it would have cost me over $1300.

This might start working out cheaper eventually!

Message edited by author 2003-02-05 23:11:10.
 02/05/2003 11:45:05 PM · #33
I've had a very casual interest in photography for years, but nothing ever gave me any guidance in improving or finding my own style until I came to DPC. That was the first time I started taking photographs regularly, but with my equipment and the other things taking time in my life, it was only worth 30 shots or so a week. When I got my new camera, I took more than that at first to learn how to use it and out of pure enjoyment, but the course I'm doing runs 3 evenings a week and weekends, and I work on other things in business hours, so the time I have available is used for spending time with my boyfriend and relaxing. I work photography into that, and usually he helps me out with my photos (he's the guy pouring the milk in "Cafe (Soy) Latte", posing for me in "Open Minded", or sometimes he's holding a lamp for me, etc.). If I want to do outdoorsy things, he comes with me, and we make it part of going out together.

So photography isn't my main interest, and if I didn't get the right results during the time I spent on the photo, I don't generally reshoot it, unless I'm REALLY unhappy. I'm happy with the results I'm getting now, so taking photos with challenges in mind is a nice thing to do.

My Album for my Olympus shows all the best photos I took over Christmas and while I was on holidays, which is evidence that I do take photos when I have the time. But that's the important factor.
 02/06/2003 06:57:46 AM · #34
Originally posted by Gordon:
How often do you use your camera ?


I work as a photographer, so the easiest answer is "a lot".

To put a number to it: I got my current D60 in mid-august, and have shot more than 16000 (that's sixteen thousand, yes) pictures with it.

I use 2x 256 Sandisk Ultra compact flash cards, a battery grip (so I can use two batteries) and I always carry a spare battery.

so yes.. A lot of pictures.
 02/06/2003 08:01:34 AM · #35
Gordon's point is really true that experimentation with settings is a great way to learn. The fact that it's free to shoot (once you have the camera of course) without using up film means there's no barrier to trying every single thing you can think of. That, combined with the instant feedback of the LCD screen add up to a great learning tool.

For example, last night, I was sitting by my guitar and I put my camera in macro mode. Instead of actually looking through my camera's viewfinder, I would just hold it about 10 inches from a desired subject area (in this case, an electric guitar), let the AF lock, and then shoot, and then see what kind of a frame I got on my LCD. (Actually I first starting doing this with my cats - I found that I could get great macro portraits of their faces this way - they wouldn't get freaked out by me and my head actually trying to get up in their faces).

This led me into trying it with my zoom set at various focal lengths from wide angle to full zoom-in. This was cool because I never really had a good feel for how different the pics those settings would produce in macro mode. I.e. zoomed in, I would get these really detailed cross sections of a tiny area, but zoomed out (wide), even tho the camera was right up close, it would show the entire body of the guitar but with an interesting curvature that made it look like a large flattened drop of mercury. But now I have a feel and a new technique to add to my bag of tricks, and the cost ??

Thanks to digital: zero :).
 02/06/2003 09:54:57 AM · #36
With a setup shot, I'll shot between 50 to 100 shots to find the persecutive / composition I want, then I try several Aperture settings bracketing the EV + or - .7 or so. After that I always try to shot a few "off the cuff" freehand shots (which I usually end up entering).

For shots I have less control over, I usually shot more. For instance my Skylight shot was in a mall I had to walk through to get back and forth from work to the hotel when I was in Singapore. Every morning and every evening, I'd shot about 25 shots with exposure bracketing set to different steps.

Outside of challenges I shot as much as I can. Usually family stuff. Now that I have an X-Drive, an SCA event might easily be 400 - 500 images. I burn A LOT of Cd's :)
 02/10/2003 01:03:01 PM · #37
I shoot a couple of hundred shots a week...minimum. I carry my camera every where I go.
When I go out to specifically shoot, I'll fill up my memory card which holds about 131 pictures, plus I carry a couple of extra cards. One 16 MP and one 32 MP. I do this once or twice a week.
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