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Raw Jaw wrote:

OrdinarilyInordinate wrote:

Raw Jaw wrote:

MikeVH wrote:

I posted some outtakes a couple of months back, these are some completed images. I took about 4300 images all weekend, of which 150 made it to post-processing.

My goodness. 150 out of 4,300?

You are a perfect candidate for a 4K video camera, with which you can shoot video at 60P of everything you encounter on a shoot, then look through your clips to grab Stills.

Personally I could not enjoy photography if all I got for PP was 150 out of 4,300 shots.

Heh, yeah, seems like a very small number of shots, but I think he meant shots that were great not only for colors and exposure and composition but also with a great human subject expression. It's one thing to shoot stationary landscapes and another to shoot human subjects--it can take many photos to capture a great expression (or one if lucky, or none out of 20). All photos here are of other people, so I can see why only a smaller number were considered truly worth it, judging by the artistic nature of these photos.

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Great photographs--loved looking at them; thanks for sharing!

95% of my photography is of people, and 150 out of 4300 is a rate which would tire out the subjects, imo.

Perhaps I'm simply more selective. Also when one works with amateur models -- enthusiastic, creative amateurs, but still amateurs -- who don't really know what they're doing, you have to rely on your luck rather than their skill to get a good shot.

But if you think about it, shooting for three days, six to eight hours a day -- call it 20 hours of shooting, total. Probably one to two setups per hour, on average (which for a location shoot is really quite good, but I was shooting mostly natural light with a single reflector so things were quick). So it's, what, 100-200 shots per setup, each of which yields maybe five shots that make PP, and of those five one that makes the final cut? I think that's reasonable.