You can't evade Murphy's Law.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > > Occasionally I am asked to take a group photo. > Every time I am choosing the best (or even usable) photo from the set, > I am struggling with finding one. The reason is that at any given moment > someone takes less then the best pose, facial expression, ... > So, you end up with one photo where it's better for one person, and > another one for another person... > > > So, I've been thinking about some empirical formula for the number of > photos I need to take to ensure I could choose one where everybody is OK. > When I have 1 person, the first photo will be bad, so, I need to take an > extra (or two). So, > for 1 person: 1+1 (or 1+2) photos. > For 2 people I will have about two bad ones (one for each), so, 2+1 (or > 2+2). > ... > > One might think that for N people, I'd need N+1 (or N+2)... > But that's wrong, because in addition to everybody having individual bad > moments, I will have a combination of bad poses in more then one person, > plus, people getting distracted when the crowd grows close to 10 and above. > The deduction and combinatorics does not seem to work well here, but I > suspect that statistically, I'd need N^2+1 or even N!+1 (where > N!=1*2*3*...*N) to optimize the probability of finding one photo where > everybody looks fine. > > Ghm... > > Igor > > > > > > -- > 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.
