jim quist Loc: Missouri

This sure has struck a nerve with Apaflo. Seems like three shot bursts with everything is going to get a lot of wasted shots and wasted time at the computer.

IBM

For sure it's our nature to look , double check if you will , ever since we been shoveling food into our mouth weather it's on a fork or in our
hand we always give it a look before it hits our pie hole . Why is that you can do it with your eyes closed , but we always look , it's the same with our camera , it's confirmation that it went as planed on to the censor in the camera , and the food had no strange look to it so it went down , good job , we'll done , Pat pat on the back,

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

It's absurd and will not be tolerated.

markjay

Chimping wastes alot of time, and creates frequent situations where the photographer is che king his shot - while missing a better shot immediately after taking the first.
It is a sign of lack of professionalism in many ways that each picture has top be checked. If the photographer is good, and confident, he knows bny looking through the viewfinder what he got.

If you have ever seem the movie "Smash his Camera" about the fame papparazzi Ron Galella (a must see if you have not seen it) - he talks about how he doesnt even use the viewfinder. That is a professional ! he has shot some of the most amazing portraits of the 20th century - all by feel. he points the camera from experience, shoots, and moves on to the next shot. He knows what will be in the image from the way he holds and points the camera.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

When I shoot (for myself or for money) I usually look at the LCD screen to see the shot I just took. I don't consider it chimping, but my livelihood often depends on getting certain shots. If I'm shooting (especially in areas or events that it would be difficult to reshoot). I can't go back so I want to make sure that I either got the shot or I can make adjustments to make the shot better. There is very little more frustrating than to take a series of shots and find that either the lens didn't focus where I thought it was or that my exposure was off for some reason. Its ALWAYS easier to take additional shots while you are there than it is to come back a couple of days later and hope for a reshoot. Yes, I am a competent photographer but competent doesn't necessarily equate to stupid. If I'm shooting a race at a specific turn and have worked diligently to setup the shot, you can bet that I'm going to make SURE I got it or am ready to try to get another.

cthahn

What difference does it make when you look at the last picture you took? How stupid for someone to write something like this. If I was taking pictures of anything, got home and found out that none of the pictures turned out because of a bad setting, I would not be very happy. I check all my shot for exposure immediately. Some people dream up garbage like this to get some publicity and it is just another worthless piece of information.

advocate1982

Your first line is just perfect. There are so many "rules" for being a professional that are just stupid. Those rules are try to set maintain photography as an elitist club that only the "best" can be a part of. Not being professional because you don't use manual exposure is right up there at the top of that list. Others that fit the list - camera bodies (canon vs Nikon, full frame vs crop vs point and shoot) , lenses (prime vs zoom) , f-stops (like only using f1.4) , lighting (natural vs strobe vs speedlight) , well in short, just about any aspect of photography, you have somebody that will insist that you are enlightened only by using a particular item or method.

The problem with just about all of these "rules" is that they all make the job of creating the image just that much harder, and usually the one pushing the hardest for following said rule, if you look deep enough, has something to gain. Like selling a course to the unenlightened.

The bottom line is this - if the equipment you are using and the techniques you are using are giving YOU the results that YOU want. Then all the rest is bupkis.

markjay

This is the most articulate contribution I have seen here. You are right - most of the comments are nothing but bubkis. Like you - I am a recent member here. Thank you for the fresh contribution and thought.

advocate1982

The worst part of this advice is that not only does it not solve the problem, it creates a different problem to deal with as well. Overshooting and the subsequent time suck of editing 3-4 times as many images.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Looking after each shot is very professional. If you can as it verifies the shot for composition, eyes open etc. It would be an idiot who is being paid to produce the best product possible product and use every tool available in the tool box. What if we were in the film days and the film was not advancing or the aperture was all of a sudden not functioning? All would be lost. At least there is verification available now to us and it would take a fool of an idiot to not verify the shot. It has absolutely nothing to do with instant gratification.

advocate1982

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sanctimonious is the word I have been looking for in response to many posts.

markjay

Somehow all those professional photographers in film days never worried about all of the problems that you re raising !

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

The photog is probably checking for closed eyes/blinking, too.
Pat

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

The unprofessional thing to do would be to deliver a "less than the best image quality" to the client.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Oh gee, I have never, ever taken a photograph only to find out later that my camera settings were still set from the last work I was doing and the current photograph was crap. No. Never, ever happened. Of course, I lie. As noted, one of the largest advantages of digital is seeing what you are doing as you are doing it. I generally don't review every photo, but if I was being paid to capture a once-in-a-lifetime event, I would sure be looking at most of them!