Good stuff, Charles. I've always enjoyed your concert work.
I think in general I agree with your points below, but I would think the sports photographer would be expected to get game winning catches, baskets, key turnovers in football, etc. You can't leave those moments to chance--and to be sure shooting a lot helps minimize the risk of not getting the key moment shot. I wonder what it was like in the film days for the sports photographer? All I can say is that for me glad I'm shooting digital. :-) cheers, Christine On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:49, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >> Chicago Sun-Times photo editor: "So, let me get this straight: You shot a >> total of 426 frames?" >> >> Me, newly hired sports photographer: "Yes." >> >> Chicago Sun-Times photo editor: "And all we have is a total of 23 usable >> shots." >> >> Me, newly hired sports photographer: "Right." >> >> Chicago Sun Times photo editor: "You're fired." >> >> Me, newly hired sports photographer: "Understood. >> > > When I shoot live concerts, I'm delighted if my shots-usable to shots-taken > ratio is 1 in 10. Usually it's more like 1 in 20. > > The editor doesn't care how many shots it took to get the results, they just > want enough usable results (my opinion anyways). > > It would be interesting, would it not, to find out what the usable ratio is > for the pros. I would think that sitting on the sidelines, machine-gunning > with a zillion frames per second, they go through a lot more than just 426 > frames in one game! > > (as an example, my last concert I attended, the first "usable" frame was > #5637, the last was #6166. I posted 32 images out of 529 frames shot!) > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2011/new_standards_holiday_show/ if > you care! > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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.
