DSLR effect?

[Ko.Fe.]

I like John Free photography lessons on youtube. Something new to think about. One of his fundamental statements is about taking of less pictures.
He went to Cuba and only three pictures. Still, kind of extreme to me.

But here is what I have noticed. I like to take DSLR and film camera with me then we are going to friends house. Kids making fun, something nice around their house, couple of group portraits for memory.

Sometimes my DSLR would be taken by one of our friends, usually they don't have their own and ... spray shot begins. Without checking the pictures, one, two hundreds. And later on I have to dig it and delete a lot of OOF pictures🙂

I still like to take pictures every day, but I noticed it is pain to sort them all out. I'm exhausted and can't sort out some previously taken pictures.
This is something new to me.

Something really good was in old time photography, then people have to go photography parlour to take one and only picture.
And I also see why even now some photogs carry on field view camera to our local waterfalls.
One picture only to deal with!

Do you have similar experience?

Cheers, Ko.

 

[newspaperguy]

I'm sorry to break the news, but it's a sure sign you're getting older.

The next sign is when you stop lying about your age...

and start bragging about it.

:angel:

 

[jsrockit]

I've been able to keep up right now. Not sure if it'll always be that way. I don't have kids, a DSLR, and I like editing though...

 

[gns]

It's not a DSLR effect. Not even a digital effect. In the days of only film, some photographers shot tons of frames and others shot few.

There are pros and cons to both (any) ways of working.

 

[kshapero]

I am in the middle zone.

 

[Spanik]

Sometimes my DSLR would be taken by one of our friends, usually they don't have their own and ... spray shot begins. Without checking the pictures, one, two hundreds. And later on I have to dig it and delete a lot of OOF pictures

I still like to take pictures every day, but I noticed it is pain to sort them all out. I'm exhausted and can't sort out some previously taken pictures.
This is something new to me.

Something really good was in old time photography, then people have to go photography parlour to take one and only picture.

When that happens to me it is my nefew that has taken my camera. I directly notice it when the film comes back because there are good photo's on it. Not the rubish I normally take. 😀 Guess I'm lucky.

Now coming back with too many photo's and not liking to sort through them is what made me go back to film. (other thing is I already spend too much time behind a pc) When I got the dslr I came back from holiday with so much photo's I gave up a week later and never looked at them again. I have seen that place only through a viewfinder. Tought about it, then went out and got a medium format camera and slide film. Slows you down a lot. Now I enjoy my holidays more.

I would never go so minimal as to go to Cuba and only come back with 3 photo's. But these days going to some happening and not using a single roll completely is usual.

 

[YYV_146]

No. Even for my personal work, I shoot like there's no tomorrow. I also never delete any photo I took, since the cost of extra storage once you have a drive rack is minimal.

The time involved in deleting my OOF and subpar shots is probably worth more money than a new drive every year...

 

[YYV_146]

And yet there are people who use film that shoot just as much (a lot more, if we're talking about a certain G.W)...

 

[stompyq]

I think most people shoot with large format for different reasons than having only a few shots. Heck, when I was shooting 4x5 I was limited by the amount of holders I could take to the field, and that always annoyed me. I personally think if you don't shoot enough and edit enough then you'll never improve.

 

[daveleo]

I passed through that rapid-fire digital phase, for the same reason - no time to sort out the best 1 of 100 pictures. I thought Xfps was cool until I got home and faced the editing !

I am generally very choosy about what I point the camera at, but always take 3-6 slightly different pictures of it. These days, I do most (not all) of my deleting in the camera.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I'm sorry to break the news, but it's a sure sign you're getting older.

The next sign is when you stop lying about your age...

and start bragging about it.

:angel:

Rick, you nailed it!

I'm bragging about it right away.

In soviet times booze and smokes cut off age was sixteen.

At the age of twelve I was delegated to buy cuban cigarettes (sweet in taste and dirt cheap) at Tobacco Kiosks by my neighborhood buddies.
And at the age of fourteen I was never rejected at Vino Stores to get for my school friends Vodka, Beer and Vermout.

Never been refused or asked for ID, I was old even then. 😎

Happy Friday!
Ko.

 

[David Hughes]

Edit? The time to do that is when looking through the view-finder and before squeezing the shutter button. Or, am I getting old?

Regards, David

 

[Paul Jenkin]

I grew up with film as a teenager in the mid-70s and I still use 90% film - though I enjoy using my D800, Fuji XPro-1 and X100.

That said, I shoot digital as if there are 36 on a roll and I need to make every shot count. Personally, I much prefer being a sniper to being a machine-gunner.

 

[hepcat]

It's not a DSLR effect. Not even a digital effect. In the days of only film, some photographers shot tons of frames and others shot few.

There are pros and cons to both (any) ways of working.

When I was shooting for a newspaper in the mid-'90s, I worked with a woman we called "Shotgun Judith" because of her propensity to shoot three or four 36 exposure rolls at each assignment, while I'd typically shoot a half-dozen frames at each one I covered. We both always came back with published images. I just didn't have as many to sleeve and proof.

 

[css9450]

Reminds me of my early days of using my parents' ancient Minolta SR-1. They could stretch out a 36-exposure roll of Kodachrome over about 18 months of vacations, birthdays, family reunions, weddings, pet pictures, etc. I remember getting in serious trouble when I took the camera out, and using an entire roll in one day!

 

[farlymac]

I've always wanted one of those 250 exposure magazines!

With me, it depends on the subject matter. A family get-together will always generate many moments, while when I hit the road, I'll stop and take a shot or two at one location, then move on to the next. Doesn't matter whether I'm shooting film or digital, I always let the situation call for the amount of exposures.

PF

 

[Rob-F]

I love using Aperture for filing photos, as well as for post-processing! I do edit. I might save all or most of new shots. After some time has passed, I can be more objective about which ones to keep. Then, when my photographer's hat comes off and I put on the editor's hat, then I can say, "who shot that one? I can't use it." It takes time to get that objective distance (for me).

Hear that, Apple? some of us love Aperture!

 

[chipgreenberg]

I'm not very prolific these days. I don't push the button unless
I think magic is going to happen. For me, that means great light and great color.

If you want to hunt elephants, you need to be where the elephants are. So for me, photographically, it means I need to be somewhere interesting, with time to shoot, during magic hour. Unfortunately I don't have that much opportunity these days. I make a few images a year I love.

Ansel Adams said if you make 12 notable images a years that's pretty good. I know he shot large format (mostly), but he also was where the elephants are a lot more than I am.

It's not a race. I'm happy with 3 great images! But, that's me.

 

[Prest_400]

Although I'm a millenial and grew up while digital was rising in the 2000s I ended taking up photography though film.

I am like 2 styles in one. In digital I shot quite a bit (at most 150 frames a day) but in film it takes me a lot of effort to go through exposures.

Last roll was a bit of a surprise when I shot the last 16 frames in about a week, but 36exp tend to last me way too long.
Now alongside digital and 135 I shoot a GW690 with its 8 6x9 exposures. I can go through fine if I want but tend to slow down (otherwise it's quick to go broke 😀).

A point I have observed with non-photographers is that they don't tend to take multiple frames (as of safeguard), for example in group photos when it's usual to have something wrong.
Even if digital is free and all we know.