In college, a friend took formal pictures of my girlfriend for a contest. He was on the yearbook staff and I was impressed when he showed up with a Hassy. And I was amazed at the number of shots he took, rolls he took. Of course, we picked the best ones for display.
Larry, there is no shame in taking lots of shots, or in only showing the best! Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > Thanks everyone for the positive comments. > > > On Jul 1, 2012, at 6:42 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > >> Now that's a collection! I'm always impressed by your ability to >> capture "events". I usually failed miserably at this, get depressed, >> and got take some landscapes. > > I don't think that I'm all that much better at taking photos, I just think > that as Bob pointed out, I'm just getting better at throwing them away. > > I probably average an hour or two a week, maybe more, of pointing my camera > at dancers or martial artists. I don't just take an SAE buttload of photos, > I take a metric buttload (2.2 SAE buttloads) of photos. If I take five > hundred photos in a night, even I will get a good one now and then. > > I try to do the "decisive moment" thing. Really I do, but when things are > happening that fast, I just take photos when the decisive moment might > happen, and every so often I get lucky. I'll bet that John and Doug have > hundreds of photos of racecars perfectly clipping the apex for every one they > have of a driver doing something "interesting". > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
