Point & rapid shoot or compose & shot single images?

[orbscure]

Fellow esteems photographic Wammers... as per the title, I know there is no right or wrong way, to shoot, but having just picked up and dusted down my camera (fair weather photographer) having grown up using 35mm film, even now, I always try and grab that single good shot and not just hit the shutter hoping that one of the shots capture the moment. I know digital affords us the luxury to do the former and even look at and delete the image while its still on the camera, but I just find it so damn difficult to press the shutter and hope... and thats even before you have to wade through hundreds of shots per session to find that shot...

Just out of idle curiosity, what method do you use?

 

[tkimages]

If it’s a moving object, I’ll use up to 12 frames per second and cull later. If the subject is static I’ll take a more considered approach and compose etc, but I’ll still take more than one photo so I can choose and ‘play around’ with them later.

 

[gintonic]

If it’s a moving object, I’ll use up to 12 frames per second and cull later. If the subject is static I’ll take a more considered approach and compose etc, but I’ll still take more than one photo so I can choose and ‘play around’ with them later.

its what i do

 

[orbscure]

Many thanks chaps... some food for thought there, but old 35mm habits die hard. Having said that, I have a MacBook Pro and the interface between it and the camera makes then proposition of having to work through large numbers of photos a less arduous task. I just need to find a cost effective editing package rather than using an old version of PhotoShop on a PC in the spare bedroom... again old habits etc etc...

 

[tkimages]

Affinity Photo is ‘cheap’ and is considered by many to be up there with the best.

 

[hiacedrifter]

The age old question (well, since digital arrived). In theory digital should mean we learn as we take pictures... i.e. on the hoof ... but the temptation is to click click click and end up with more pics than we can choose from. I have thousands of pics from the last 15 years ... unedited, no signs of improvement, no discipline.

The Online Photographer, years ago, recommended (as a training exercise) using one camera & lens for a year, shooting B&W film, cataloguing, choosing, learning.

I think its a great idea, and with discipline one would improve a lot ... but developing film these days is expensive, and hard to arrange. The idea was refreshed:

https://theonlinephotographer.typep...ra-one-lens-one-year-the-digital-version.html
I think a balance is needed in the digital world (as a training exercise) - shoot a film's worth, review at home not in the field (perhaps tape over the screen?). In fact one of fuji's cameras has a cover on the screen, revealing only iso/shutter/aperture

Sorry a slight ramble .... i think once one has taken pics, choose some (printed or bookmarked digitally), then come back to them after a few days, learn from them, remember things to do different. Easier said than done.

 

[hiacedrifter]

Many thanks chaps... some food for thought there, but old 35mm habits die hard. Having said that, I have a MacBook Pro and the interface between it and the camera makes then proposition of having to work through large numbers of photos a less arduous task. I just need to find a cost effective editing package rather than using an old version of PhotoShop on a PC in the spare bedroom... again old habits etc etc...

Capture One allows you to buy the licence outright ... not terribly different from lightroom, but i keep hitting LR keyboard shortcuts and nothing happens! I still like LR but can't justify a monthly fee for twice a year usage.

 

[orbscure]

Affinity Photo is ‘cheap’ and is considered by many to be up there with the best.

Thanks for that... I'd forgotten about that one so off to take a look...

Capture One allows you to buy the licence outright ... not terribly different from lightroom, but i keep hitting LR keyboard shortcuts and nothing happens! I still like LR but can't justify a monthly fee for twice a year usage.

Thanks for that too... Capture One is another I'm aware of but I can't remember whether I tried it last time I toyed with sme different than PS CS2. LightRoom was definitely used here, but as you say, the monthly subs are a little too much to swallow, especially for a fair weather photographer like me

 

[orbscure]

As way of an update... I'm loving the Affinity Photo demo, so much so that I'm sure I'll be buying it early next week. If it remains a nice day today, I plan to head out with my Sigma macro lens for some butterfly/insect chasing, so I'm sure I'll try and defeat my inability to hold the shutter down for more than one shot