ordinaryimages
3600
Posted by ordinaryimages (Kentucky Bluegrass, United States) on 24 March 2009 in Landscape & Rural.
The old axiom was shoot a hundred rolls of film and learn the camera. I wondered what the 3600th frame on the 5D would be. I shoot digital frugally, but 3600 frames rolled up much faster than film. About 400 frames a month average contrasted by 2-4 rolls of film.
How about you?
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Matt Sutton from Sydney, Australia
Great image jerry. I think its in the mind how you approach it. But digital does make you shoot more frames (files). I know shooting film we are more purposeful. I am on roll number 21 for this calendar year and they are mostly 35m frames and maybe 6 x 120m frames (12 a roll), so maybe thats about 600 or so far this year. Only digital stuff I have shot has been for other people.
24 Mar 2009 5:49am
@Matt Sutton: I think its in the mind I have to have one of those...too?
Gavin from Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria
I suppose it's easy to get trigger happy with digital, but these days I think more about composition once I'm sure then I hit the button and take another shot +/- if the histogram is a bit shy. Taking time is such an important aspect of photography, waiting to see in the right way, finding the picture, etc.. That what I like about it in this hectic world it makes me slow down and block out the noise.
BTW Like the dark tones and shadows in your picture.
24 Mar 2009 9:46am
@Gavin: thx! The picture was nothing special, just a record as it were. Gavin has a very nice Gallery...here
paulski from Muncie, IN, United States
nice shot here; love the use of the creek as foreground element. and yes, i shoot way more on digital that i would have on film. when shooting my kids sports, for example, i can easily shoot hundreds of shots, and pare them down later. never would have done that on film...
24 Mar 2009 10:37am
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
Nice...Lovely scenery.
I don't really keep track of how many images. I have 3 DSLR cameras and over 20,000 images archived on this computer and external HDD, and countless more on another HDD that I use on assignments. I have stacks of images archived on disks from a few years back...I'd have to check my actual shutter actuations for a count. I don't keep images that fail in terms of focus and exposure, they get dumped immediately. So it is probably a lot...lol I'm not as trigger happy as I used to be I suppose.
24 Mar 2009 11:20am
@Laurie: thx! I moved all my archive CD's to redundant external HDD's organized by year and store the redundant drive in an offsite safe. I imported the archive into Lightroom 2 as a catalog for viewing, then mount the archive drives for use. Over football season I got them keyworded in Lightroom : ]
dogilicious from Millerstown, PA, United States
I'm not sure how much a shoot but I did have o buy a new computer with more storage because I packed the old one full of RAW! I like the way the stream in this one leads the eye through the shot. Nicely done.
24 Mar 2009 12:32pm
@dogilicious: thx! I did have o buy a new computer drastic action : ]
john4jack from Corvallis, United States
Beautiful scene. Love the meandering stream and the fence. Don't know how many, Jerry, but I am cranking out about 8-9 GB a month that I don't trash; cheap external HDs tend to make one lazy.
24 Mar 2009 2:50pm
@john4jack: thx! Measured in Gb's [or Tb's : ] rather than frames...what are we coming to.
Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom
For me, when I first got digital the ratio was about 100:1, but thats been dropping, so that now I shot about the same number of digitals to film frames. I kind of re-found my love of film.
24 Mar 2009 6:23pm
Francisco Díaz from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Very good b/w with a special light. The trees, fence, road... creates a very good composition of lines.
24 Mar 2009 6:26pm
grant from kansas city, United States
i like the pic, especially with that little nearly hidden building. and it's an interesting thought, how digital vs. film influences the number of pictures taken. (i buy a five back of 120 film about twice a month - 60 to 75 shots, depending on the camera.)
24 Mar 2009 8:34pm
Fishit from Tealtown, United States
love you use of light and shadows, looks very Kentucky ... best dennis
25 Mar 2009 1:09am
Line from Chambly, Canada
Un noir profond qui donne du relief au paysage.
J'aime beaucoup ce genre.
Belle composition aussi.
30 Mar 2009 12:30am
shallowregret from Kongsberg, Norway
i shoot close to ten times as much, still getting about the same amount of keepers. Find i do shoot in a lot of situations i wouldn´t shoot in before, but a lot of throwaways. Don´t think i´ll go back though, digital is so convenient.
great image, think you master your camera by now :-)
1 Apr 2009 5:39pm
tokyo-drifter from Tokyo, Japan
I've wondered the same thing. I plan to scoop up a dSLR in the next couple of months, and wonder if I'll retain the discipline I have with my camera now. Film and development costs are one factor in reducing the number of shots I shoot to get a picture I want, but, advancing the film after each shot probably has a big influence on it, too.
6 Apr 2009 12:04am
Canon EOS 5D
1/400 second
F/5.6
ISO 125
85 mm