Drowning in photos

Mxsmanic wrote:

When shooting film I'm constrained by the fact that each shot costs a certain
amount of money. When shooting digital, however, the cost of each shot is
nearly zero, and the tendency is to shoot and shoot.

The media may be free, but what is your time worth to you?

The ability to shoot 'free' digital images is incredibly useful in SOME
situations. When shooting the OTHER situations, the solution is simple:
Slow down! When time and circumstances permit, pretend you're shooting
a 4x5, where each shot is precious. Think about the scene and take a
few superior images, rather than machine-gun away....

Further, if you take the time interact with the subject, your photos
will be associated with your memories and experiences, and will have
some actual meaning to you! (If you don't even remember taking the
picture, what's the point of the whole exercise? You may as well buy a
CD full of stock images, and save the cost of all that hardware, travel,
etc.)

-Moo

Mxsmanic writes:

So you end up taking zillions of shots of the same subject over
time, trying to find the One Perfect Shot. Sometimes this happens on the same
day, if you're trying to shoot around traffic, moving cloud cover, and so on.

Cloud cover I can understand, but can't the traffic problem be fixed
with a tripod and GIMP or Photoshop? You take a shot with half (or a
third) of the subject unblocked, and repeat as needed until you have
enough to stitch together.


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Bruce Lewis wrote:
Mxsmanic writes:

So you end up taking zillions of shots of the same subject over
time, trying to find the One Perfect Shot. Sometimes this happens on the same
day, if you're trying to shoot around traffic, moving cloud cover, and so on.

Cloud cover I can understand, but can't the traffic problem be fixed
with a tripod and GIMP or Photoshop? You take a shot with half (or a
third) of the subject unblocked, and repeat as needed until you have
enough to stitch together.

Or one long exposure that blurs the traffic using a dark filter (neutral
density) to allow a longer exposure.

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Paul Furman
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