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Overshooting

when i am brought on for a photo shoot or an event, i tend to shoot way more images than i hand over to the client with the final edits. on friday i photographed a law school grad party, and shot 990 photos over the course of four hours. that’s more than four photos per minute for 240 minutes.

one of the reasons for the massive quantity of photos is that i shoot almost every frame at least twice to make sure i don’t have camera shake or motion blur, to make sure everyone’s eyes were open, and to make sure the lighting and exposure were just right, that the shadows are pleasing or at least able to be edited into submission.

i don’t know how many times i’ve been sure i got a good photo only to realize later that someone moved just as the shutter was actuating, or that someone was too far in front of or behind the focal point and were turned into a puddle of mud because my aperture was too far open.

i still have an actual after-action review to complete for friday’s shoot, and another for an infant baptism i shot yesterday, but those will have to wait to tomorrow. for now, wifey and i are headed to a fashion show wherw she’s going to be strutting her stuff on the runway and i’ll be doing even more photography.

before i go, though, i should probably finish this post by telling disclosing that out of the 990 images i loaded on to my memory cards that night, i shipped 243 to the client. just over one photo per minute. that’s still a shit ton of photos. and i’m glad to say the client was very happy with what they saw.

categories: Photo, Daily
Sunday 12.23.18
Posted by Chase Collum
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