K30-user Loc: Port Lambton, Ontario

I read on UHH photography forum that some of you take 100s of shots while out on a photo shoot. What is it you look for in your shots, or what are you trying obtain in your photos?
What do you do with the keepers?
Only about 10% of what I shoot are keepers.

1eyedjack

10% is a good figure that is why so many shots are taken..
Also most taken from different angles,so may like certain presentations or composure..Keep on shooting..

GDRoth Loc: Southeast Michigan USA

I read somewhere that once you identify a good subject, you should take at least 8-10 shots of it from different viewpoints to capture the best image. Spend some time with it, not just bang off 10 shots...

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

Regardless of shooting in studeo or out, unless it is still life/macro/close up I shoot as many as is needed to get the shot I need.

I took 250 shots of a grass snake just to get THIS one

http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad121/jser1/Img_36282-1.jpg

All the rest were either no tongue or a little or looking the wrong way.

Sports are the same I may be lucky and get it first time, or it could take 50

Depends what you are shooting, landscape etc would be just one, for me.

wallace

kool shot, JR1.
I love how he just stopped and posed for you. :)

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

Thank you wallace but like everything it is luck, right place right time.

I was going out that day, my son was ill, stayed home, live in a cemetery, they were about to cut the grass and hey presto what came out.

After the shoot I picked it up all 4' and carried it to safety.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Since moving from film to digital, I have unlimited shooting ability, and I take advantage of that. I can try different exposures and different angles. I plan my shots, but I can also plan on taking many shots.

I recently watched a photo course on lynda.com, and one segment was about "working the shot." Don't be satisfied with one or two good angles. Move all around and take shots from different areas at different zoom ratios.

If all I want is a shot to record some information, one or two shots will be fine. If I'm trying to make a nice photo, I'll shoot as many as I want.

wallace

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

K30-user Loc: Port Lambton, Ontario

Thanks all. Great shot JR1! I'm pumped now.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Is that a local snake?

gizzy.whicker Loc: Cumberland Co., Illinois

One of my first two ex-wives was closely related to a snake-in-the-grass. I would like to have taken at least 250 shots at her too, but that was back in the old days, before fast shooting was available, and I simply couldn't re-load that old muzzle-loader very quickly. Gizzy

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

It's really situational. Yes if I'm going for a snake shot or sports action, I might be cooking on continuous mode and warming up the memory card.

However, more typical for me is to spend 3-4 hours and take maybe 30 shots. I spend more time looking than shooting. Generally, this time is not spent waiting for someone else to move so I can take the same shot they did.

Try this, sometime: go to a popular National Park and pick out a spot where no one else is shooting from. Take a few (or just pretend to). Then retreat and watch.

;-)

Dunatic

I take a lot of photos with my digital because I can and I really enjoy it. I get so excited when I find something pretty to photograph, a landscape, flower, person that I just go crazy with enthusiasm. However, when I find that many of those photos are just mediocre; I stop shooting digital. I get out my film cameras and force myself to get creative again. With film I limit my shots to a roll of film. It is amazing and I think to myself, "why can't I just stay creative" with my digital photos. Why must I make myself shoot film to bring out the creativity in my shots on a regular basis? So my mission is to shoot fewer digital shots but, be more creative. That's my goal... Cheryl :thumbup:

WildBill Loc: South West Florida

If you are trying to get a person at ease in front of the camera, it may take 100 shots of them trying different things and showing them reasonable results to get them to relax so you can get the "good" photos you wanted in the first place. The snake is an awesome example of persistence with a subject to get just the right pose. Awesome job JR.

Even in landscape photography, you set up the photo and snap. Then you check to make sure you did not forget to set the white balance (if you are me lol) and that you got the best possible photo of the subject. Would 5 feet closer or further back have given the scene more depth or meaning? is there too much going on, would a different angle be closer to the image you wanted? I keep shooting to try and ensure I have what I came for.

Always take several photos when possible. I will shoot 100 photos from 5 angles of my wife's roses just to get the 5 photos I set out for. Each photo has a different focal point or DOF or slight change in the framing/angle to get as close to that perfect shot as I can for her.

One shot is great if you are selling something on E-Bay but I shoot in bulk for everything else. Still trying to get one photo that is perfect.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

Kind of you to say so.

Remember class 10 SD cards to keep the shooting rate up faster write times