Bad habits you have with photography

4 years 10 months ago #645544 by Kenta
That's totally me.  Taking 50,000 shots from the same exact spot!  I need to start moving.  


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4 years 10 months ago #645558 by GaryA

Shadowfixer1 wrote: I have 2 bad habits. One is to shoot too many of the exact same shot. Same settings, same composition, everything. The worst habit is driving by something and saying that would be a cool shot but never stopping to actually shoot the image. When I have gone back to shoot a scene it has always paid off. I need to stop more.


Okay, I confess ... me too. I used to shoot in Continuous and end up with way too many images to go through.  Now I shoot pretty much everything in Single. I still end up with a ton of shots, but one ton is better than four tons.  I still don't stop for photos ... that I need to change. 

(Shooting with the Fuji XP1 really opened my eyes to how I had devolved from my film days.  Film was limited and precious, and time consuming to develop and print. Consequently, I would put a lot of thought into every frame.  Unlike digital, which more of a reactive shooting style, see something and Boom! Boom! Boom! you got got it.  Film was non-auto, you had to focus and taking light readings, no chimping and no do-overs. That made film a thinking man's game, anticipatory not reactive.  The XP1 was slow, it did everything slow.  Compared to my dSLR's, the XP1 was only a fraction of a second slower, but that fraction was the difference between night and day for what I shoot and how I shoot.  I could no longer be reactive with the XP1.  It took me back to my film days.  I looked harder at the light, harder at the subjects, I would position myself and wait for what I hoped would happen ... then Boom! Even though I no longer shoot with the XP1, I am still shooting as if I'm still using the XP1. The XP1 has made me a better photographer.  

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