I've had my camera exactly 1 year today...

[Ukwildlifeo]

...and Ive taken 18669photos! anyone top that in 2007?

[glsammy]

Yep, by a few. From January 07 to 1st Jan 08; 46,000 images taken. I've slowed down a bit this year.

[nightshade]

Wow ,show-offs

[stephen p]

Blimey! and i thought i took a lot of photographs

[Monkster]

Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

...and Ive taken 18669photos! anyone top that in 2007?

Originally Posted by glsammy

Yep, by a few. From January 07 to 1st Jan 08; 46,000 images taken. I've slowed down a bit this year.

Nowhere near that amount I'm afraid !!!!
But I can remember a time.....not that long before I joined WAB actually .....when I used to take photos of...... my family!!!!......now I've got about 2000 photos of wildlife and scenery and clouds and about 10 of my nearest and dearest!!!

[tufftie]

I might be able to get off the ground with my first photo if only the postie would hurry up with the memory card! Got a long way to go though!!!!!

[juliejam]

Originally Posted by glsammy

Yep, by a few. From January 07 to 1st Jan 08; 46,000 images taken. I've slowed down a bit this year.

What can I say to that ..but well done..that's some record..

Julie

[Paul mabbott]

How has the title of this thread changed from "I had ..." to "If had ...". One of those mysteries of life?

The thing, really, is not how many pictures you've taken but how many of them were any good?. In my case, not a lot! For December (2007) I have retained 97 pictures (and half of them are rubbish) out of goodness knows how many snaps .... yes, photography is harder in the winter but even in the summer there's a lot of waste .... but with digital you can take that wastage and that risk!

[Blackbrook Eye]

Crikey, sounds like machine gun photography !!!

[glsammy]

I obviously take a lot. I'm in the privileged position to be able to take shots just about everyday. You never know which one will be the good one.
Take when I did a spell taking water close ups. In a couple of days I'd taken over 1,500 shots. In the end I'd got about 10 which were OK. If I hadn't taken 1500, I wouldn't have got the good ones as they were some of the very last ones I took.
So quantity can have a bearing on quality, in certain circumstances.
I'm a persistent so and so. I don't give up until I've got what I want. If that means taking thousands of shots, so be it, I enjoyed every one!

[matt_xyz]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

How has the title of this thread changed from "I had ..." to "If had ...". One of those mysteries of life?

just to confuse you even more Paul, the title has now mysteriously changed to "I've had my..."

I'm struggling to work out how many I've taken because it's split across 2 cameras. I also switched CF cards from one camera to the other (without re-formatting them) which totally threw the numbering out. If my sums are correct, I think I took around 6,000 last year.

Matt

[Blackbrook Eye]

Originally Posted by glsammy

I obviously take a lot. I'm in the privileged position to be able to take shots just about everyday. You never know which one will be the good one.
Take when I did a spell taking water close ups. In a couple of days I'd taken over 1,500 shots. In the end I'd got about 10 which were OK. If I hadn't taken 1500, I wouldn't have got the good ones as they were some of the very last ones I took.
So quantity can have a bearing on quality, in certain circumstances.
I'm a persistent so and so. I don't give up until I've got what I want. If that means taking thousands of shots, so be it, I enjoyed every one!

There is no arguing with that Graham, your results speak for themselves. I tend toward the thinking that there is usually one decisive moment that can make a picture that bit special, and tend to spend more time watching than taking, in the hope that I can capture that fleeting moment, when it comes off I am more than happy with one good shot. Although my camera is capable of in excess of six frames a second I have rarely used it on multi exposure except for in flight shots, and then only occasionally, in consequence I can be out for a whole day and only take about a dozen shots but it still gives me great pleasure, and for me that is what it is all about. Each to their own Eh.

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

The thing, really, is not how many pictures you've taken but how many of them were any good?.

Thats the point I spose. My standards are low and I have 900ish photos on my flickr site but some of them are heavily cropped >600 pixels across images, which look fine as a small image on a website. As for how many are of a high standard...well i really must got through and pick out my best ones

[mh68]

I can only go off the number of macro shots I took last year, which was around 10,000, of which I kept approx 7,000. I lost track of the other shots I took.
I think both Graham`s, and Blackbrook Eye`s approaches both have their merits - restricting yourself to shooting at THE right time can improve your skills, but Grahams approach of taking however many shots are required to get the desired result is one of the beauties of digital, and allows us to try things we`d never attempt if we were still having to shoot with film (unless you had a bottomless bank account ).

Mark H