shots per day?

[How about Don]

I was reading where a guy took 1100 shots in one day? How do you do that and compose photo's at the same time? If there's 8 hrs darkness and shooting an hour befor and after sun up and down is to dark, that leaves 14 hrs to shoot photo's and somewhere along the way I assume you eat something.

14 hrs is 840 minute's. that's 1.3 shots per minute every minute of the 14 hrs! How do you do that?

[cab.in.boston]

Could have been shooting sports using a high frame rate (9-10 fps on the pro bodies). One could blast out hundreds of photos in mere minutes.

Of course, shooting 1100 shots in a day doesn't meant that he didn't throw out 99% of them. :)

[Bauhaus]

Sounds like an interesting read. Have a link?

Just trying to put your example in a different perspective: a camera like the 7D can take pictures at 8fps. At a rate that fast, and for the sake of this example lets assume the photographer really enjoys the continuous shot feature, he would only need to have the shutter pressed down 2.3 minutes of his 840 minute day to take 1100 shots. Of course, that circumvents your question about composition. :scratch

[BradfordBenn]

For trying to capture lots of action I can easily see that. Last night while trying to take fireworks photos I took over 400 images in 1 hour. I was using a remote release and every time something launched I would snap three or four pictures each time. It adds up pretty quick when you are going for the hope I catch something approach. For an active event it is very hard to know what is going to happen so better to have too many than none.

[How about Don]

No link. Don't want to embarrass the guy. I guess at 8 fps you could do it but my F5 is that fast in the right light. I shot it there once and can't figure out how anyone could afford the film. This was not sport's but rather nature. I read somewhere a while back about a guy in Africa that did some incredtable number of shot's like that in three day's. Amazes me every time I read about it.

[Glort]

I was reading where a guy took 1100 shots in one day?

Is this a serious question?

If you are refering to something like still life or product shots, it would be quite some feat.

If your talking about action or sports, I cannot see why you would event ask such a question because it is extremely easy to do and would be commonplace with loads of shooters here alone.

[Art Scott]

Glort......look at the post above your last post for the answer to your question(s)........the op said it was nature shooting........... :-}}

[WillCAD]

My own record for a single day was 357 shots, taken in a 4-hour window at an engagement party. I shot lots and lots of candids, and a bunch of posed shots with the couple and their families. Naturally, not all of those 357 shots were keepers, but I didn't shoot any high-speed bursts of sports action; they were all composed shots. They weren't all WELL-composed shots, but they were composed, as opposed to the Spray and Pray method.

Had I kept shooting at that pace, an 8-hour day would have netted me about 700 shots, and a 12-hour day would have netted me about 1,050 shots. So it's possible, it's just not easy to keep up that pace for hours on end.

[El Picoso]

I took 700 shots a the county fair on Sunday. Joan Jett, fireworks, navy band, et al.

Last weekend, I took 655 shots in one day at the fair, another concert, general shots, flowers (most were flowers).

I was going to post and ask if there was a 12-step program for photographers.

Went on a 4 hour hike yesterday, took 200 I think.

I'm not sure if I like taking that many shots or not. I feel like instead of composing the shot, I am just trying to get lucky.

W

[AndMan]

As others have said it depends what he's shooting.
Shooting wildlife he may well be shooting at a high frame rate.
If shooting landscapes he is probably shooting bracketed exposures (3-5 per base image).
If shooting sunrise / sunset with a rapidly changing and great sky then he probably has only a relative few "compositions" but is shooting repeated bracketed shots to try to capture the perfect image.

[ImageX Photography]

I took about 5000 shots over the weekend about 3 weeks ago.... when I was shooting motorcycle roadracing. I believe this type of shooting will net you more shots than ANY other type of shooting period. When you are hoping hundreds of riders will all buy their shots.... you just pick off riders all day long.