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09/17/2003 01:39:26 PM · #1
I took about 235 images trying to get a decent one to submit for the challenge.

How many did you take??

James
09/17/2003 01:53:16 PM · #2
About 25 trying out different concepts and ideas. Then 114 executing my final shot to my satisfaction. Incidentally, I would have played around more, but as it is, I only beat the submission deadline by minutes.
09/17/2003 02:09:12 PM · #3
None.
I was on holiday and didn't find out about the challenge till the last minute :-/
Managed to shoehorn one in though :P

Would have headed to the track if I'd been at home though which usually means 500+ shots over 2 days.
09/17/2003 02:19:30 PM · #4
I took somewhere close to 500, in about an hour. In terms of shots I was considering for the challenge, maybe 100 or so.
09/17/2003 03:17:51 PM · #5
I made about 300, but then decided not to submit any, because I was not that happy with the results.

But I was wondering, why there was not that much entries (when you compare it to the freedom challenge, which was just speed challenge, it has just 19 more entries)
09/17/2003 03:20:12 PM · #6
Originally posted by sahko:

I made about 300, but then decided not to submit any, because I was not that happy with the results.

But I was wondering, why there was not that much entries (when you compare it to the freedom challenge, which was just speed challenge, it has just 19 more entries)


Probably for similar reasons to yours. Sports is difficult anyway, never mind with a digital camera that has a large shutter lag, like most point and shoots. Sports is one of the few challenges we've had were equipment performance is quite significant, although some creative entries have avoided a lot of those issues and created great shots with what looks like low end cameras.
09/17/2003 03:35:07 PM · #7
Originally posted by Gordon:


Probably for similar reasons to yours. Sports is difficult anyway, never mind with a digital camera that has a large shutter lag, like most point and shoots. Sports is one of the few challenges we've had were equipment performance is quite significant, although some creative entries have avoided a lot of those issues and created great shots with what looks like low end cameras.


For me the shutter lag was not the main problem, that is a thing you get used to, but the lack of control over the DOF and the slow focusing is sometimes driving me mad... I can't wait to get the 300D :)
09/17/2003 03:41:02 PM · #8
I took about 140 'useless' shots.... I had a one time only opportunity to shoot what I wanted for this challenge and apparently had some sort of brain-fart on the day and the results were very, very sub-standard. The worst part is it was sooooo avoidable....

oh well, you live and you learn, I'm just grateful it was for dpc and not a paying job.... I salvaged about five shots and submitted the 'best of a bad bunch'.....

I'm really annoyed because I was so looking forward to this challenge!
09/17/2003 04:16:55 PM · #9
Don't have them all here, but probably 100-150. Got the winning shot about 20 shots into the first attempt.
09/17/2003 04:25:31 PM · #10
out of the 235 or so images I took I had about 17 I really liked, then it was picking the one i felt would do the best...im about on par for my usual average score so far

James
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