Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 01:07 PM, Rob Appleby wrote: > I generally shoot about 7 rolls a day when I'm working on a project, > which > isn't much. That works out at around 250 frames a day (if my maths is > correct), so something like the figure you quote above. But most of my > time > is spent just hanging around waiting for something to happen. Then > every so > often I have a half hour or ten minute period in which i shoot a roll or > two, or maybe I take a single shot in an hour. It's not a matter of the > law > of averages, just that when you see something interesting that is > pertinent > to your story, you have to be sure to get it on film. It goes in > bursts, for > me at least. > > There's lots of reasons why you'd shoot two or three rolls to get a > single > image - poor lighting, quick changes in the scene, whatever. If you > don't > get it, then you'll feel like a fool, so you just have to make sure - > and > even then sometimes you don't. > This is a great description of how this kind of photography works. In particular, in the nice book ON BEING A PHOTOGRAPHER they go so far as to claim that every excellent photographer works exactly this way, shooting bursts of film as a situation develops. Even in landscape or nature work, you'll tend to shoot a lot of film when the light is peaking and not so much film at other times. I'm no pro, but I shot a roll and a half of film to get this: http://kvdpsu.org/img/test-78.3.jpg This was a matter of explicitly trying various compositions, and waiting for the light to evolve and change, rather than just shooting blindly with the motor. Pete - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html