Larry, You're the guy who used to go on an outing and then post PESO's of 500 photos. You've gotten better lately at recognizing your best work and restraining yourself. But you still shoot an awful lot, like a guy who can't believe the bargain it is now. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Come on Larry, 1.00 a click or even .25 a click and you'd go broke. Not > saying you don't try to make every shot count, just... > > I swear you are channeling someone else. > > Marnie aka Doe ;-) > > In a message dated 4/17/2013 8:53:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 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. > > > -- > 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.
