Interesting, thanks Jostein Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "AlunFoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Question: Has digital photography improved your skills? > Steve, > > Digital has not improved my skill. However it has improved my results. >>From 2000-2003 I took about 100 rolls of film each year. Then I went >>digital. > In 2004 I made about 3500 shots, so I didn't change my habits one bit > the first year. > 2005 and 2006 saw a slight increase, probably towards 4000 shots a > year (most of the archive is on a disk offline at the moment). > 2007 was met with K10D, and saw another increase to about 5000. This > year I'm way behind schedule, though. > > Most of the increase can probably be ascribed to playing with mosaics > (aka two-dimensional stitching). I sometimes take 20-30 tile-shots for > one assembly. > > So how come digital improves results? Well.. I think it's because I > came from positive film. I was used to thinking in five stops of tonal > range. Digital is so much more forgiving, and thereby increase the > number of keepers in the captured material. > > Best, > Jostein > > 2008/5/10 Steve Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Just curious that's all, I'll be getting a digital soon too. If you can't >> beat em, join em, lol. The wife blew off >> 87 snaps yesterday at a school event yesterday, she is in hog heaven. I >> guess the point I am trying to get across >> is if you have the ability to fire 20 shots at the same subject, are you >> going to take the same amount of set-up >> time for f/stop, exposure, background, composition, etc. as you would >> with >> film? >> >> Steve >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
