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Originally Posted by Beekeeper  Really i just want to know if his way is the normal way for professional photographers to take pictures or is he not the professional he thinks he is?
BK |
you cant really generalise - if , like me, a lot of what you shoot is high action (diving sea birds, birds in flight , and also rugby, football, motorbike racing, jet skis etc) then you have no choice but to whack off a lot of shots without chimping the lcd much in between - as that kind of action lends itself to the spray and pray technique relying heavilly on the tracking auto focus, the cameras burst rate and your appreciation of the action - but not giving you much time to think about composition.
During a 90 minuite event its not unusual for me to fill 4 or 5 1GB cards - the only downside being that if you are working editorially you also have to review them quick and pull out the best shots which isnt easy when you have hundreds of similars.
at the other end of the scale landscape photographers like joe cornish , david noton etc who may well be shooting large format film, will spend hours getting the composition right, waiting for the light etc then make maybe 2 or 3 exposures.
at the end of the day taking lots of pictures alone doesnt make you a proffesional - the mark of a true proffesional is knowing which technique is right for which situation - and the real proof of the pudding is a) are his pictures any good, and b) does he sell them regularly. If the answer to these two is yes then it doesnt matter if he took 3 or a 3000 to get there.