Re: Overshooting vs decisive moment /// Is the end product al...
I didn\'t start this thread to take sides or bash and I am going to adhere to that mentality.
i will offer my own personal sentiments which most people will scoff at but that is alright.
I found/find myself growing tired of digital cameras. Not so much digital in a sense that digital is better than film but more in the sense that when I am holding a digital camera I am basically holding an everlasting machine gun computer image maker. I personally found myself overshooting just because quite frankly I could. It became a rather mindless activity. Of course we are always attempting to be creative etc. but I found myself composing shots and then just shooting not really thinking about expressions, other things in the frame, etc. I sometimes found myself not really taking anything in to account other than just lining up the shot and blasting away.
That troubled me a bit.
For me going back to film (which I love anyway and just needed to convince myself I could actually shoot weddings on film) was the solution.
Sure I could have taped my LCD screen and used smaller cards etc. but at the end of the day the limitations film brought were a welcome way to boost creativity and also reenergize my drive to improve.
Just because we can take less shots on a digital camera doesn\'t mean we will. Just because we can leave our phone at home and disconnect from FB and texts doesn\'t mean we will do that either.
I still do shoot digital and I am plenty guilty of \"overshooting\" with my D3 no doubt. What I found interesting was that after taking the necessary time to really give film a go I shot less, didn\'t miss shots, was more connected to the events, was more creative, saw and photographed more moments, and had way more fun doing it.
Like I said in my original post the happy clients are really all that matters. Everyone has a different shooting style, brand, and philosophy. All perfectly fine. Shoot whatever, however you want and make good images. End of story.
That is what I have gathered in my time thinking about all this.
Sep 02, 2014 at 12:53 AM
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