I typically shoot 10 hour days. If there's not much going on, I'll shoot maybe 4000 images. If there's lots of fun things going on, I can shoot 8000 by myself.
Shot a big wedding recently with lots of dancing and craziness and emotion. With my second shooter, we had a combined total of around 13,000 files for 12 hours.
Not sure if anyone here has ever seen me work, but when I shoot, lots of times I'm waiting for things to happen and when the do, I start shooting. While I'm shooting, there are people in front of me reaching in, hugging, etc... when I'm shooting, I will dip and duck and dodge and move and squat and lean left/right to shoot around people and objects... all while firing away at the moment that is happening in front of me.
I've had second shooters tell me that out of all the people they've shot with, I work the hardest. I will have video guys and guests alike saying that I'm "all over the place." I take those as compliments and wear those badges with honor.
People pay me lots of money and I'm going to make sure I'm working my tail off for them to try to get not only the best angle, but unexpected angles. I probably look ridiculous, but I don't give a shite. My final product speaks for itself.
Inku Yo wrote:
I typically shoot 10 hour days. If there's not much going on, I'll shoot maybe 4000 images. If there's lots of fun things going on, I can shoot 8000 by myself.
Shot a big wedding recently with lots of dancing and craziness and emotion. With my second shooter, we had a combined total of around 13,000 files for 12 hours.
Not sure if anyone here has ever seen me work, but when I shoot, lots of times I'm waiting for things to happen and when the do, I start shooting. While I'm shooting, there are people in front of me reaching in, hugging, etc... when I'm shooting, I will dip and duck and dodge and move and squat and lean left/right to shoot around people and objects... all while firing away at the moment that is happening in front of me.
I've had second shooters tell me that out of all the people they've shot with, I work the hardest. I will have video guys and guests alike saying that I'm "all over the place." I take those as compliments and wear those badges with honor.
People pay me lots of money and I'm going to make sure I'm working my tail off for them to try to get not only the best angle, but unexpected angles. I probably look ridiculous, but I don't give a shite. My final product speaks for itself....Show more →
At my second to last wedding I got the comment that I was "all over the place" but I took it as a negative comment and struggled to find a good response.
I am not sure why people think more shots == longer delivery.
You still only have a certain number of days in the year and are still shooting the same number of weddings every year. Either the high volume shooters have gotten faster at culling or they are working longer hours. Spreading out the delivery date does not change how much time something takes.
SloPhoto wrote:
I am not sure why people think more shots == longer delivery.
Just going on what I've read in previous threads. Feel free to search for some of the discussions on delivery time. Several responses in those discussions windowed 2-3 months. I would venture a guess at some of those people complaining about being behind in those discussions, being some of those 5,000+ shooters.
Inku Yo wrote:
With my second shooter, we had a combined total of around 13,000 files for 12 hours.
Ding Ding!
We have a Winner!
New record for the most frames I have ever read or heard about taken on a single wedding.
Do I hear 14K? 15K?
Where will it end?
According to some the more shots taken the better the coverage so maybe we will soon have shooters saying they take 20K shots. By extrapolation 20K would have to be better than the new current high of 13K so why not?
Get that pocket full of 128G cards ready and charge that external power pack or just sling a car battery over your shoulder and go shoot a REALLY outstanding coverage.
glort wrote:
Ding Ding!
We have a Winner!
New record for the most frames I have ever read or heard about taken on a single wedding.
Do I hear 14K? 15K?
Where will it end?
According to some the more shots taken the better the coverage so maybe we will soon have shooters saying they take 20K shots. By extrapolation 20K would have to be better than the new current high of 13K so why not?
Get that pocket full of 128G cards ready and charge that external power pack or just sling a car battery over your shoulder and go shoot a REALLY outstanding coverage.
amonline wrote:
That, to me, is perfectly reasonable.
Just going on what I've read in previous threads. Feel free to search for some of the discussions on delivery time. Several responses in those discussions windowed 2-3 months. I would venture a guess at some of those people complaining about being behind in those discussions, being some of those 5,000+ shooters.
I was trying to do a search and only came across one thread on this topic and not a single person mentioned 2-3 months. In any case, it really does not take that long to cull out images. Most of the high volume shooters are not high-volume deliverers, so the actual editing time does not change that much at all.
I don't think it's the "culling". It's probably the amount they spend time processing.
Here's one thread with a few two to three monthers... There were more, but you have to search individual years... and it's a little hard to copy/paste all the links on my iPad... I saw two more threads just back to 2012 where more than one person would say 10+ weeks...
amonline wrote:
I don't think it's the "culling". It's probably the amount they spend time processing.
Here's one thread with a few two to three monthers... There were more, but you have to search individual years... and it's a little hard to copy/paste all the links on my iPad... I saw two more threads just back to 2012 where more than one person would say 10+ weeks...
Looking through it there are a handful of people that actually take longer than 6-8 weeks to deliver, many of them citing procrastination as the cause or because they are multi-day events.So your theory is kinda not being supported by the thread that you linked. While the OP of that post shoots 3000, he also says since he started doing it he felt he got better/more moments so it's worth it to him. Still his delivery time is still at about 6-8 weeks and his work is actually really friggin good.
And then there's this guy:
D. Diggler wrote:
I usually do more toward the opposite: say 4 and take 8.
Like I said, there are other threads and posts. I'm not doing all the work just to prove some point to you based on the eight years of what I've read on this forum. If you want to dive in, start searching. My time is worth more than that.
