On Apr 17, 2013, at 7:45 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Marnie, > That's what I thought too!!! I saw Larry shoot in Chicago at the PDML > exhibition, > and shoot and shoot and shoot. There wasn't a composition or > aspect he didn't try to capture. He had to recharge his spare > batteries at lunch. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Excuse me, this is LARRY'S post?!!?!!? As in Larry who shoots, well, a LOT >> of frames? >> >> I'm not even having wine at the moment. Maybe I should. >> >> Marnie aka Doe ;-)
I shot film for about 35 years. I grew up making every shot count. It is a tool that has been in my toolbox since before my Bar Mitzvah. The last time I shot any significant amount of film was at Burning Man in 2010, and I shot a profligate seven or eight rolls of film, as well as a couple thousand frames of digital. That worked out to something like thirty frames of film a day. When I go to someplace like Chicago, with modern photographic gear, being parsimonious with my shots is false economy. I've been there twice. The first time was for a dance event and I didn't have much time to see and photograph the city. When you count vacation time used, airfare, meals, car rental, my trip probably cost me $1,000. If I shot 2000 frames, call it 50 gig, that's something like $10 worth of hard drive. Less than I spent on a typical lunch on the trip. Some of my best shots from the trip were total WTF shots, trying things that had such a low probability of success that if I were shooting film, I doubt I would have wasted the money. About the only tool that I advise against people using, in most cases, is shooting exclusively JPEG, and I will grant that there are even times when that is applicable. If you never miss a shot, and never need to pull lost detail out of shadows and highlights, it does save time in both processing and transferring files. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
