How much did you shoot today???

[Ole]

I always pity the newcomers to photography, who are told that you need a digi-SLR, and that the only way to get good is to shoot at least 1000 exposures per day...

I keep trying to tell them to shoot ONE, look at it, try to see what's wrong with it, then move around a bit to see if they can get it exactly right with the second (and last) shot. That saves them hours and hours and hours of wading through thousands of almost identical poor pictures in the hope that a miracle has happened in one of them...

 

[copake_ham]

I always pity the newcomers to photography, who are told that you need a digi-SLR, and that the only way to get good is to shoot at least 1000 exposures per day...

I keep trying to tell them to shoot ONE, look at it, try to see what's wrong with it, then move around a bit to see if they can get it exactly right with the second (and last) shot. That saves them hours and hours and hours of wading through thousands of almost identical poor pictures in the hope that a miracle has happened in one of them...

Ole,

The problem with this sage advice is it would remove the street theater that we filmsters get watching a dSLR (or, better yet, digiP&S) shooter) "chimping"* over that LCD screen after each of those 1000 shots!

*
1) Shoots picture,
2) Hunches over LCD
3) Scratches top of head
4) Shakes head violently side-to-side
5) Grunts loudly
6) Commences same sequence with a re-shoot.

Also amusing when seen with groups of people during "hunching" phase.

 

[Sanjay Sen]

Four frames on Velvia 50 (120), and seven frames on Kodak Verichrome Pan (120), expired in July 1981!

PS: if you have tips on what developer to use for the VP and the dev time, I am all ears!

 

[PatTrent]

Earlier today I shot 14 frames of 220--all on 320TXP.

Later, I shot about 6 frames of 35mm on FP4+

In a few minutes I'm going to shoot about 3-4 frames 35mm--all on FP4+.

 

[jnash67]

I shot about 15 frames of 400UC 35mm of a 130 year old church that will be reduced to rubble tomorrow. Thinking about going back with some B/W tomorrow for dramatic effect.

 

[removed account4]

a handful of half frames, and a handful of 2x3 frames (yesterday)
0 today

 

[roteague]

I haven't shot anything lately. I did shoot 4 or 5 rolls of 35mm and 5 sheets of LF when on Maui last week (mostly of a stand of rainbow eucalyptus trees).

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

1 roll yesterday when I was out around town, half a roll today around home.
I've noticed I've gotten a bit better with picking my shots, the composition's better as well as the exposure. My quality has improved, which is a nice thing to find.

 

[Thanasis]

21 shots.

about 15 were portraits and the others were in my dad's garden.

 

[colrehogan]

I took some 16 or 18 total shots on Saturday.

 

[eclarke]

4 sheets 4x5 Saturday and 4 sheets 4x5 Sunday..Fog both mornings...EC

 

[Tom Hoskinson]

10 color shots of some Chumash Pictographs (Santa Monica Mountains) with my Fuji 670-III.

 

[Drew B.]

Yesterday, approaching sunset, I shot 24 images of cape cod bay...at the Sandwich boardwalk over the dunes....w/the F3

 

[rpsawin]

Yesterday the weather cleared and I shot 3 rolls...great day!

Bob

 

[Sanjay Sen]

I shot about 15 frames of 400UC 35mm of a 130 year old church that will be reduced to rubble tomorrow. Thinking about going back with some B/W tomorrow for dramatic effect.

All my shots yesterday were of an old church too, the Pottersville Reformed Church in Somerset County (New Jersey), dating from 1866. Fortunately, this church will (hopefully) not be demolished any time soon as it appears to have a fresh coat of paint - bright white with deep red doors and windows. I wasn't planning to shoot this structure and so wasn't carrying my 4x5. I'll go back and re-shoot this with 4x5.

 

[jd callow]

0.





I think its time to close this thread and ban everyone who posted.

 

[Sanjay Sen]

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I think its time to close this thread and ban everyone who posted.

 

[JohnArs]

40-50 digitals and no film today!

Armin

 

[sepiareverb]

No frames today, in the darkroom as it was scheduled to be rainy, and eventually did. Got a walk in down to the stop sign and back while films were in the wash, but it was gloomy, and I'd shot 1/2 a roll with a loaner PEN EE yesterday on my walk down to the stop sign and back in some glorious springlike sunshine (not spring here yet, barely mud season) so didn't expect to see anything, and didn't. Will get out a bit tomorrow before classes and fire off a roll or two.

 

[copake_ham]

Well, I'll post today like it was still last Saturday!

I shot three (3) rolls of Fuji Superia 400 (24 exp.) at the 25th wedding vow renewal of my brother and sister-in-law.

Not likely to shoot during this week as work is very busy. Maybe when the weekend comes around.

 

[MattKing]

On Sunday, it was Sunny!!!

How do you spell "hallelujah"??

Short on time, I still managed to shoot 2/3 of a 15 exposure roll.

Matt

 

[rpsawin]

0.
I think its time to close this thread and ban everyone who posted.

Gonna miss you JD....

Bob

 

[jd callow]

Gonna miss you JD....

Bob

hehehe

 

[David H. Bebbington]

I shot 40 sheets 4x5 b/w, 3 rolls slides and 3 rolls 35mm b/w. Processed the 4x5. This was for a non-commercial bridge photography project I am working on.

What would be interesting to know after this very long but unilluminating thread would be:
1) How many images from this mammoth shoot were keepers and found their way into the final project?
2) Just how valuable does the photographer feel it is to shoot pictures at all times of the day, considering that even in seasons other than summer, when the light angle is low most of the time, most people would stop shooting in the time around noon?
3) Does this photographer have an opinion as to why other workers generally feel they are doing well to get one or two truly satisfying images from a day's work?

 

[DKT]

okay, well this is what I've done in the past week for work (albeit, we're in a production period right now with a tight deadline). I've shot 176 sheets of 4x5 b/w film and developed that. I started making prints yesterday. the guy I work with, shot 40 sheets of 4x5 b/w and EPN yesterday & this morning. he took the E6 to the lab, and we have about a dozen more things to shoot in b/w and then we'll run that film. we would have run the E6 in-house, if our machine hadn't of died last month, but that's another story.

of the 176 I shot--some were single sheets (one per set), the others were doubles (either a norm, plus 1/2 or two norms). I wound up with something like 120+ sets to print. I have to make 2-3 8x10s of each by the middle of this week for a rough edit, then we turn around and either farm out murals & large stuff and I'll make 8x10-20x24 in house off this stuff by the end of next month, mount it as well.

then after that, more to shoot and on & on...in addition to these exhibits, we're doing a book on antebellum furniture and shooting civil war flags also. it's all a mix of furniture & 3-d objects with old textiles and flat art. we usually proof on polaroid, and then burn film. there's very little that doesn't make the files. so, in my case, nearly every sheet's a keeper.

my opinions only/not my employers.