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08/14/2003 12:19:07 PM · #1 |
I live around Chattanooga, TN. We have a lot of rural area around us. Low mountains, ridges, rivers, etc. Since I got my 10D (about 3 weeks now) I like to take an evening and drive around 150 miles, just stopping at interesting settings and shooting. I normally get about 160 RAW images on a card (1GB) by the time I get home. A couple of days out of the week I like to walk around town and shoot buildings or people (I get releases if I think I might want to use the photos) or insect macros, too. That's another 100-150 pics per session. I've had a couple of location shoots with models and I get about 100 RAW files and many more Large-Fine shots on each of those. All-in-all I've shot an average of 500-1000 images per week. Obviously my skills are meager with the limited amount of time I've been doing this so I normally only produce 50-150 pictures I like and of that only about 20-50 pics that really turn others on at all. Some of this is my slowly developing eye for artistic photos and some is my ineffectual use of the camera settings while more than a little is my inexperience with PS 7. As I work on all those areas I'm just wondering, how many frames do you shoot? How many at each setting or location? I've tried to get far, far away from the multiple frame servo shots that just use up space unless I'm shooting some sports/action that I want to stop (got a great shot of a bride jumping in her dress just before the garter removal -- the print photogs missed that one, muhahaha).
I have heard to expect as few as 1 shot in 60 unique shots (as opposed to the servo shots) to be pleasing or to capture what I was shooting for. Please feel free to be verbose with your comments about what I've shared or with your experiences and methods of producing the photos I've admired on DPC (and PBase).
P.S. - You can see some of my shots in my PBase gallery below.
Kev
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08/14/2003 12:41:41 PM · #2 |
From the National Geographic web site. (//www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/qanda/ Actually there are a bunch of nice Q and As answered here...)
"How much film is shot on an [NG] assignment?
The number of rolls (usually 36 exposures each) ranges from 300 or 400 to more than 1000 for complex stories. While this seems high, you must remember that professional photographers "sketch" with the camera, much like writers probe with questions to get at the essential information. They explore subjects visually by shooting many sides of a subject in many ways. It is usually the combination of enough time in the field and enough film exposed that provides the depth that has become the hallmark of our coverages."
So, doing the math, if they shoot just 300 36 exposure rolls, they've shot 10,800 images on a single theme (and over somewhere between 4 and 16 weeks). If the magazine uses 30 of those images for print (a number I'm pulling completely out of the air), that means 1 shot out of every 360 images, or one shot for every 10 rolls of film...
Message edited by author 2003-08-14 12:52:34.
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08/14/2003 01:47:25 PM · #3 |
I'm at 9000 shots on my new camera, which I got at the end of April this year. I shoot a wide range of subjects/styles and I like to get numerous shots in each location.
I am also not satisfied with the dynamic range of digital. I am used to getting good shadow detail without having blown out highlights on film. I have been taking three shots at a time with the exposure bracketing feature set to +/- 1.0. I can then layer the photos in Photoshop and keep the shadow detail from one, the highlights from another, and the midtones with the best color from the third. With a little practice (actually, alot over several years) I've gotten pretty good with multiple layer compositions in Photoshop. People usually cannot tell that the image has been manipulated.
I have 282 images in my Pbase Gallery, and some of those were taken with my old Nikon 5700. I was up to 5000 images on the Nikon when it was stolen. 282/(5000+9000)= approx 2% of my shots that I think are good enough to share with others. That equates to 0.7 shots per 36 exposure roll of film.
I think a better question is how much money have I saved in film and processing within that 14000 shot window??? That's roughly $6000 in film and processing! Although, if I were still shooting film, I would not be taking so many photos!!
JD Anderson
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08/14/2003 01:51:41 PM · #4 |
I'm at about 25,000 over the last couple of years.
The over quoted Ansel Adams aim is to have one or two good pictures per year from that amount.
The other way of looking at it is you start of thinking ever shot is good. Then eventually you start expecting 1 in maybe 50 shots to be good. After all while you learn enough to realise that maybe 1 in 1000 are actually worth keeping. I suppose eventually you just give up if you follow that logic :) |
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08/14/2003 04:24:16 PM · #5 |
Must be the new cameras that show how many photos you have taken?????
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