By the way, as a footnote to this topic, I might add that when I first started shooting film in earnest some 30 years ago, I learned an important lesson about volume and skill development. I was patronizing an old camera store in Chicago at the time. It was on 35th and Halsted near Comiskey Park. It was called Malelos Camera and must have been around since at least the thirties. I had taken up photography seriously just that summer, shooting maybe a roll per week. and the guy who owned the store became somewhat of a friend. One day, he pulled me aside and said, "Look, if you want to become even a halfway decent commercial photographer, you have to shoot a lot more film. If you promise to shoot a roll of film every day, I'll sell you the film at my cost." He did, and I did. So I was firing off about 1000 frames a month. He also helped me out with a lot of darkroom equipment at cost or less and discounted my color processing significantly. I shot a roll every day for at least! the next five years. My work improved significantly, and within two years I was selling a lot of work to magazines. Shoot as much as you can, but think about every exposure. Photography is like any other pursuit: The more you practice, the better you get.
> My *ist-DS arrived 3 weeks ago today and I'm amazed to see that > I've shot 1000 images in that period. > > The vast majority have been test shots and discarded, but that's > an awful lot of shots by my standards - though I realise that for some of > you that's not a very large total. > > With my old 35mm (and even more so with my medium format) gear I > tended to be quite miserly with my shots, taking my time to try and > ensure good exposure and composition in one attempt. I'd average > about one roll a week, unless on vacation or for some special occasion. > > Now I'm finding that I fire off a lot of shots in the hope, and > expectation, that I'll get a 'good' image which I can tweak > in Photoshop if need be. > > I've changed from a sniper to a machine gunner...... > > I think I need to slow down and concentrate on the photography, > rather than the technology. > > Anyone else finding the same thing ??? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fred Widall, > Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
