On Feb 20, 2010, at 6:31 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Larry Colen
On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:17 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
> Congrats/
>
> I'm not sure were my K10D is at shutter click wise. Its been to
Pentax
> a number of times and it comes back at 0008 or so.
> I suspect i have around 10-15K.
>
> My D1 on the other hand, around 80-90K
But isn't the real question, "how many of them were keepers?" :)
I think a better question might be are you getting MORE keepers? And
Why?
There was a "smiley" at the end of that sentence, after all.
For myself, my percentage of keepers has gone up only slightly
because my standards have risen. What I might have considered a
keeper before I started shooting digital, I wouldn't consider one now.
But you're right, that it's not just the number of the keepers, but
the quality. Remember that link I posted about the stages of a
photographer?
While at the same time, I'm more willing to "take chances", to try
and make images I wouldn't have thought I could make before ...
because the few times I did try to make them I failed.
This is certainly true with my photography. I'm at the stage where I
can usually get the shot, by experimenting seven ways from Sunday, and
bracketing in three dimensions.
I'm afraid that I'm not yet to the point where I can usually just go
in and nail a shot on the first try, though it is often one of the
first tries that does end up being the best. It is amazingly helpful
to not only be able to bracket to get the shot, but to be able to look
at all the attempts and learn from them.
Unfortunately, I'm also still at the point where the most effective
way of improving the quality of my work is learning to throw away more
of it.
I can see right away whether the image matches my vision; whether I
"got the shot."
And it has benefited my film shooting as well. Maybe not as many
"keepers" from film as I used to get, but the ones I do get are
better.
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