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04/06/2008 02:05:06 AM · #1 |
A new record for me.... I shot, with the help of a friend, 10,400 pictures today, all in less than 7 hours.
Two weeks ago, I was shooting two cameras. The Mark III in my hands, with the 5D on a tripod and a PocketWizard remote in my left hand. Today I was doing the same thing, but part way through, a friend showed up and took over the remote for me.
Now comes the daunting task of looking at 10,400 images to figure out which ones are the keepers!
For the curious... these were Color Guard teams. Today I shot both the Prelims and Finals for the Utah Winter Guard Association.
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04/06/2008 02:08:18 AM · #2 |
Previous record was 7200 pictures in 12 hours, shooting soccer.
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04/06/2008 02:11:19 AM · #3 |
Holy wow!! That's a lot of shots David!
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04/06/2008 02:41:44 AM · #4 |
A curious question. Out of the 10,400 pictures what percentage do you think will be keepers?
The reason I ask sometimes when I shoot a lot of pictures (no where that many) I only get a fraction of keepers. Then sometimes when I take a small amount of pictures at onetime I get a high percentage of keepers.
Just wondering if it works that way with a lot of users here.
BTW: Thats a lot of pictures in one day.
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04/06/2008 02:48:13 AM · #5 |
I just went thru the first team. There were 419 pictures. I hid (didn't delete) 64 of them, either because the image was blurry or because their faces were hidden by the flags (nobody will buy a picture if they can't tell who it is), or because it was essentially redundant (when bursting pictures, if nothing changes between frames, why bother showing the extra images?).
So I kept about 85% of them. That doesn't mean 85% of them are "awesome pictures". That means 85% of them are saleable to the parents. And since most of their purchases will be of 4x6s, even the slightly blurred ones will do fine. If they order an 8x10 and it's too blurry for that size, I'll let them know.
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04/06/2008 03:09:23 AM · #6 |
Am I the only one that thinks 10,400 images is overkill?
That is nearly 1500 per hour or 25 per minute? |
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04/06/2008 03:12:49 AM · #7 |
Or put another way ... on average, 305 images per team.
Remember, too, that I'm running two cameras. One with a long lens, for closeups of the action. And the other with a wide angle lens, to get the full picture.
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04/06/2008 03:13:52 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by dwterry:
I just went thru the first team. There were 419 pictures. I hid (didn't delete) 64 of them, either because the image was blurry or because their faces were hidden by the flags (nobody will buy a picture if they can't tell who it is), or because it was essentially redundant (when bursting pictures, if nothing changes between frames, why bother showing the extra images?).
So I kept about 85% of them. That doesn't mean 85% of them are "awesome pictures". That means 85% of them are saleable to the parents. And since most of their purchases will be of 4x6s, even the slightly blurred ones will do fine. If they order an 8x10 and it's too blurry for that size, I'll let them know. |
Thats a great keep rate. |
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04/06/2008 08:36:13 AM · #9 |
Holy cow, that sounds way too much like work to me, David! ;-)
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04/06/2008 08:52:48 AM · #10 |
| At this rate you'll be ready for another camera in ohhhhh just a few weeks. :) |
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04/06/2008 09:03:59 AM · #11 |
Can't wait to see them!
Originally posted by dwterry:
A new record for me.... I shot, with the help of a friend, 10,400 pictures today, all in less than 7 hours.
Two weeks ago, I was shooting two cameras. The Mark III in my hands, with the 5D on a tripod and a PocketWizard remote in my left hand. Today I was doing the same thing, but part way through, a friend showed up and took over the remote for me.
Now comes the daunting task of looking at 10,400 images to figure out which ones are the keepers!
For the curious... these were Color Guard teams. Today I shot both the Prelims and Finals for the Utah Winter Guard Association. |
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04/06/2008 09:10:35 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by Dirt_Diver:
At this rate you'll be ready for another camera in ohhhhh just a few weeks. :) |
Thats what I was thinking.. what is the mkIIIs shutter rated at? 250,000? |
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04/06/2008 09:42:23 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Simms:
Originally posted by Dirt_Diver:
At this rate you'll be ready for another camera in ohhhhh just a few weeks. :) |
Thats what I was thinking.. what is the mkIIIs shutter rated at? 250,000? |
The Mark III is 300,000 and the Mark II is 200,000
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04/06/2008 09:55:31 AM · #14 |
| You're approaching 25fps. Perhaps video is your true vocation? :-D |
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04/06/2008 12:05:52 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by jhonan:
You're approaching 25fps. Perhaps video is your true vocation? :-D |
HAHAHAHA for real. From that you could just pull images and go from there.
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04/06/2008 12:37:22 PM · #16 |
Slight error in calculations ... that's 25fpm.
Even the Canon 1D Mark III can't manage 25fps! lol
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04/06/2008 01:30:41 PM · #17 |
That's pretty crazy David! Hope you show us some of your favs.
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04/06/2008 11:05:17 PM · #18 |
| Holy moly! I shoot 400 and I'm busy for 2 weeks. Have fun. :) |
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04/06/2008 11:09:23 PM · #19 |
WOW... did any of them turn out? :O)
Ray |
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04/06/2008 11:17:12 PM · #20 |
Yeah... I've been uploading non-stop since last night. Comcast gives me about 300Kbps upload and so it's taking forever.
I haven't made it through all of the images yet (wedding out the bad ones). I do find that I'm getting pickier as I go along!
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04/06/2008 11:38:01 PM · #21 |
Wow David....
I just went through about 600 photos I took of the Active Shooter Training our Police Department conducted. I did basic adjustments in color, converted to black and white, sized for web and uploaded to my website.
That took me probably 60 hours.... I cant imagine the hours you will put in for that project!!!! Cant wait to see your favorites!
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04/06/2008 11:56:43 PM · #22 |
Well.... with a project like this one, I don't have time to make adjustments up front.
I normally shoot raw (for everything except sports). With sports (including Color Guard), there are just too many images to take the time to convert them or edit them in any way. So I've created a photoshop script which will adjust the contrast, color and sharpness to a degree that I find acceptable for posting. And I just run that process against everything (I try to weed out the bad photos first so that I don't waste cycles adjusting images that I don't want anyone to see).
Even that process, as automated as it is, has been running almost non-stop since last night. I should finish with it tomorrow. But because of upload speeds, I probably won't finish uploading until Tuesday.
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04/06/2008 11:58:58 PM · #23 |
| Sounds a bit excessive. Will parents want to look through 300 photos anyway??? |
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04/07/2008 12:12:00 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by Dan_Cottle:
Sounds a bit excessive. Will parents want to look through 300 photos anyway??? |
You're thinking that their kid is in every one of them. If that were true, I'd agree with you. But that's not the case. With 15-20 members of each team, the parents will only look at a small number of the images.
And only some of those images are close-ups. A bunch of them are wide-angle, meant to be seen mainly by the team so that they can see formations. I doubt the parents will buy those. But I've already sold CDs to the team directors.
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04/07/2008 06:58:40 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by Sunniee:
Wow David....
I just went through about 600 photos I took of the Active Shooter Training our Police Department conducted. I did basic adjustments in color, converted to black and white, sized for web and uploaded to my website.
That took me probably 60 hours.... I cant imagine the hours you will put in for that project!!!! Cant wait to see your favorites! |
600 shots in 60 hours? You need to re-examine your workflow.. I can bang through 600 shots (including colors adjustments, contrast, exposure and white balance) in around 3 - 4 hours with Lightroom, then you just export them at web-res using the LR interface or even export them directly into an HTML or FLASH slideshow that then is automatically uploaded to my website by LR. This obviously does not include any `flashy` shots that I photoshop up, but I only pick a handful of them to show clients `what is possible`, but that takes no more than an hour or so.
However this does have to be a completely undisturbed 4 hours where the kids are in bed and I can just zone out for a few hours.
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