The shotgun approach

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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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How many of us here that are guilty of this? Some of us old timers that shot with film and had to roll your own and process and print will remember it well

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Woodyg3

Woodyg3

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LOL. That's a great graphic. Even shooting 5 fps to get a bird in flight I sure hope I get a lot more than 6 good shots out of 2,000! :)

I dunno'. I firmly believe the more you shoot the better you get. It's a good time in history to be a photographer. Sure, I toss a lot of pics, but I am so much more free to experiment and keep the hammer down when I'm shooting sports or wildlife. Film was magical and fun in it's own way, but I think if you were a good photographer with film, you are likely a better photographer with digital.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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I think many people use that as a crutch. Spray and pray. Shoot everything and hope you get one good one. I was guilty of that to a certain extent until recently. I have slowed down and am thinking more about the shot and how it will look when I am finished. I still experiment with different techniques but they are more planed out now. I have found that when I get home I have shot about a quarter of what I used to shoot but have twice as many keepers.
 
Bourbon Neat

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What Don said. For most, spray and pray was not an option with film so I went completely nutz with dslr in the beginning. As Don, I have slowed a bit and use my head more and trigger finger less. It's just another learning curve.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
I remember the days when I would buy 100 foot rolls of B&W film and roll my own canisters to shoot. Then process and print them. It got even more serious when I learned how to develop color film in my own darkroom and then print them also. I still have some 16X20 color prints that I shot in my home studio, developed the film and printed the enlargement. I think do that made me a more careful shooter. It was expensive and time consuming to do photography like that in the 70's. Took me a while after going digital to get back to what I already knew how to do.
 
Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

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Don Kuykendall said:
I remember the days when I would buy 100 foot rolls of B&W film and roll my own canisters to shoot.
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I've still got a bulk film dispenser with part of a 100-foot roll of B&W in my garage. I know it can't be any good, but I just couldn't throw it away the last time I ran across it. (I used to load, develop and print/mount my own B&W and Ektachrome.)

What I always ran across with film was when carefully setting up and taking a shot, I always seemed to time my exposure with the subjects eyes blinking. How I wished for what digital can provide (rapid multiple inexpensive exposures) back then.

When I see some photographers today, I'm happy to have started in the film era. I've even looked at buying an F4 variant off of ebay recently. Film is calling me!!!

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Blacktop

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I'm up to the mountain to take some pano sunsets shots. I hope it doesn't take me 2K shots. I don't know if my computer could handle it.;)
 
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