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Sorry if this has been raised before. When your out and about what is the average amount of shots you find your taking. I know this depends on what your shooting but on my last few sessions ive found i have taken between 300 to 500 shots.
Is this the norm or is it because im a newbie whos still finding his feet with the camera. I must admit i do play with the settings alot when im out and about to try to gain a better understanding. Thanks in advance.
 
yeah, it really depends on what you are doing.

I went out yesterday to take photos of a bride and groom and took 170 in 2-3 hours.

Their actual wedding and night event last month = 350 (I was an usher so would of been more)

friends night do, first day of SLR ownership = 114

honeymoon, 2 week travelling the USA inc Vegas and Yosemite = 1000-1300 i think

day trip to a victorian town (4 hours) = 20ish
 
owning up to this (but only as husband isn't looking)

100-200 per day :cuckoo:

but lots get deleted :lol:
 
it varies massively with what you are shooting and how you are shooting.

if i do sports (football) i'll shoot 800+ in and hour and delete as i go, but end up with 400 keepers that i then have to go through and pick the winners.
rugby is less, and horses are maybe 20 per race.

if i'm doing studio and have set up properly then the ratio is much less but again if i'm clicking water shots i was 1000/2 now i'm 30/20
Smoke is maybe 50/50 it depends on so many things and an incense stick lasts as long as an 8 gb card if you let it :bang:

at the end of the day getting the shot is the priority so if it takes you 1000 clicks to make it happen, then so be it, you will get better on your keeper ratio purely because you'll get bored with going through the shots you'll have to delete and you will think more before clicking

psst! it's digital so who cares, at this stage of your clickiness it's all about getting the shot ;)
 
It varies with what I am shooting. If I'm out doing a landscape or something like that, I might take 20-50 images to get a few that I like. At a club level motorsport meeting, I will generally take between 150-350, depending on what is on. At a big international meeting, such as the Le Mans Series at Silverstone last weekend, I would take at least 650 images per day.
 
andrew748 said:
it varies massively with what you are shooting and how you are shooting.
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Couldn't agree more... I have gone out to shoot a landscape and come back with nothing before now.
 
68lbs said:
Couldn't agree more... I have gone out to shoot a landscape and come back with nothing before now.
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lol been there and gone early morning macro instead :lol:

I'm a firm believer of if you like to click then click
if you have no eye then you will get bored and move on to something else.

this is the beauty of digital:clap:
 
This is a funny question to answer for me... as since moving to digital from film I have noticed I take a few more... but not a huge amount... I still prefer to be frugal with my shooting...

I hate the idea of taking photos for the sake of it... but at the same time I know people learning will take a lot more ... I guess all I would say is that's fine for a learner but in some aspects time is better taken considering good shots rather than just shooting shooting shooting... and sometimes doing that you forget to look at the world with your eyes rather than through a 4:3 format and you can miss things... good quality pictures.

As for sports togs taking 800+ photos... OMG how do you get the time to individually go through 800 and then process winners etc... your workflow must be imence and much better than mine.

I Always have a backlog of processing...I still have not PP'd my honeymoon pics, just went through and decided the keepers which was about 33%... which is prob a fair representation of my keep rate... I never had a backlog with film work and I guess thats down to the fact I do take more pictures... I think film was good for learning in a way as it made you improve quick otherwise it was costly!
 
markelliot said:
This is a funny question to answer for me... as since moving to digital from film I have noticed I take a few more... but not a huge amount... I still prefer to be frugal with my shooting...

I hate the idea of taking photos for the sake of it... but at the same time I know people learning will take a lot more ... I guess all I would say is that's fine for a learner but in some aspects time is better taken considering good shots rather than just shooting shooting shooting... and sometimes doing that you forget to look at the world with your eyes rather than through a 4:3 format and you can miss things... good quality pictures.

As for sports togs taking 800+ photos... OMG how do you get the time to individually go through 800 and then process winners etc... your workflow must be imence and much better than mine.

I Always have a backlog of processing...I still have not PP'd my honeymoon pics, just went through and decided the keepers which was about 33%... which is prob a fair representation of my keep rate... I never had a backlog with film work and I guess thats down to the fact I do take more pictures... I think film was good for learning in a way as it made you improve quick otherwise it was costly!
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I guess its different if you shoot film to digital, with film it costs you to shoot as you have to pay for the film, processing etc etc, with digital theres no film costs, i guess your more careful and pickiy on what your shooting where as with digital it doesnt really matter, do you agree? :thinking:
 
I think with film you do tend to study composition a lot more and work out settings a lot more with the aid of things like light meters and if you end up bracketing three exposures it was seen as wasteful!

I have seen people shoot dozens of frames on digital and with so little thought that virtually none of them are keepers (I have done it myself too when I'm not engaged with the subject :))

On a wedding I will shoot anything between 800 and 1500 shots depending on the length of day and coverage required.

On a couples/fashion style shoot I'll shoot somewhere around 200.

Out on my own and left to my own devices probably in the region of 50 as I'm selective as to what I shoot. Especially if nobody is paying me ;)
 
scrag68 said:
Sorry if this has been raised before. When your out and about what is the average amount of shots you find your taking. I know this depends on what your shooting but on my last few sessions ive found i have taken between 300 to 500 shots.
Is this the norm or is it because im a newbie whos still finding his feet with the camera. I must admit i do play with the settings alot when im out and about to try to gain a better understanding. Thanks in advance.
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I think this is a nonsensical question - there are so many possible answers - it totally depends on the subject matter and your style of shooting - nothing is right - or wrong. What matters is you get the shot required - whatever.
 
markelliot said:
As for sports togs taking 800+ photos... OMG how do you get the time to individually go through 800 and then process winners etc... your workflow must be imence and much better than mine.
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:D and i'm cheap too ;)
delete as you go or go mad :D


wibble :nuts:
 
Over the weekend of 5/6 September I took 2200 shots
Last Weekend about 20 shots
This weekend 50 shots

All depend what your up to.
 
AliB said:
I think with film you do tend to study composition a lot more and work out settings a lot more with the aid of things like light meters and if you end up bracketing three exposures it was seen as wasteful!

I have seen people shoot dozens of frames on digital and with so little thought that virtually none of them are keepers (I have done it myself too when I'm not engaged with the subject :))

On a wedding I will shoot anything between 800 and 1500 shots depending on the length of day and coverage required.

On a couples/fashion style shoot I'll shoot somewhere around 200.

Out on my own and left to my own devices probably in the region of 50 as I'm selective as to what I shoot. Especially if nobody is paying me ;)
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This lass talks sense :thumbs:

Forgetting film for now - if you are out shooting in whatever condition and for whatever reason those exact circumstances are only likely to ever happen once

So take one shot and chances are you've missed it :(

If it's a landscape shot in great light, then by all means bracket by 5 stops on every shot and move a few feet to the left, right, up or lay on the floor - shoot it to death and sort it out later as... (repeat)... for whatever reason those exact circumstances are only likely to ever happen once

So take one shot and chances are you've missed it :(



Many years ago I saw a programme about Lord Lichfield shooting a Unipart calendar in Africa. Over the course of just a few days he shot many thousands of images on both MF & 35mm film (at huge cost) for a calendar with only 12 images on it

My point being - if it looks good - shoot lots from all angles from all apertures & shutter speeds as you will NEVER get that same chance again. If you are a newbie, shoot even more and chance will also be on your side - shooting 1,000 images to get just a few great ones is common in many forms of photography

As Nike says - Just do it :)

DD
 
I think it does depend on what you're doing, but your own preferences and shooting style comes into it too.

Digital does encourage a lot of shooting, because it's "free" once you've bought the gear, but I've read criticism of 35mm in it's early days. Some traditionalists argued that the 36 exposure films would encourage indiscriminate shooting, and I've know a couple of digital guys who consider and assess every shot as if they were using 5" x 4" sheet film.

I'd say shoot how, and as much, as you need to get what you want. The low cost and instant results certainly let us learn faster, and you can retake the shot as often as you like, assuming it's static. The only thing I don't really agree with is machine gunning everything on A/P in continuous mode in the hope that a few turn out well. Still, it's your camera...........
 
I find I am generally taking less as the sheer boredom and storage requirements mean I am now getting a bit more fussy.

For example, I use to take pictures of birds that I now know are too far away, so i this instance I'll simply enjoy the experience and hope they come closer. I also try and gess where they might go and be prepared for that shot.

When you start it is important I think to take lots of pictures so you can see what works and what does not. what goes with that is understanding why the shot works, be that the composition, shutter speed aperture combo etc.

So I'd say shoot away but try and learn from each, gettin gkeepers as such from pure luck will not help you the time you really want a shot and don't know how to achieve it.

Good luck and enjoy!

Al
 
Depends on the job:
For a Medal/Certificate Presentation, about 6...
For a Parade as many as 300
For the nude shoot yesterday: 980...lol
 
Just got back from a week in Cornwall. 468 shots in total, but would have been many more if I didn't have the li'l one to entertain. Some landscapes, many portraits.

...but then I ran out of disk space on my laptop when transferring the RAW images from the camera...doh!!
 
LOL When i go out takin pics in the club soon as i have had a drink i take around 800 in one night and actually delete um down to 200 :o)

I was going to ask the question myself as i have been asked do take photos of a friends wedding next year which is a big step and responsibility for me as im new to all this but dont really know the amount of pictures expected of me to take....
 
As everyone else has said it all depends on where I am and what I'm shooting. I think that when shooting digital is that part of the beauty is that you can click away as much as you see fit as it doesn't cost you anything (apart form your time) to look through all the finished shots.

Sometimes I can shoot 50 pictures and have 5 that I deem to good enough and then others I might get lucky and end up with 20. As a beginner I also like to experiment with my settings and you can't always see what a difference it has made until you look at the pictures on the computer afterwards as they can look totally different on your camera screen when you look at them whilst shooting.
 
i take about 600 shots in places like chester zoo but only like about 10!!
 
Andy_Elb said:
LOL When i go out takin pics in the club soon as i have had a drink i take around 800 in one night and actually delete um down to 200 :o)

I was going to ask the question myself as i have been asked do take photos of a friends wedding next year which is a big step and responsibility for me as im new to all this but dont really know the amount of pictures expected of me to take....
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I don't think the number of photographs really matters. The main thing is to capture everything the couple want and expect, and even more, with good composition, exposure/lighting and focus.
 
Usually one roll of 35mm film or 36 shots or one or two rolls of 120 which is up to 20 or 24 or 30 shots depending on the camera.

I do try to use the whole roll as I don't like having images from two different outings on the same roll (unlike my grandfather who could fit christmas, the summer holiday then the following christmas onto a twelve exposure roll!).


Steve.
 
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