We need to coin a new term: Lucktographer -one who relies on his camera to automatically take hundreds of pictures, hoping that one will be somehow “perfect.”
RedHuey
joined 2 years ago
Agree, 100 percent. If you don’t like what you are seeing through the viewfinder, you shouldn’t be taking the picture. You certainly shouldn’t switch to burst mode and take 20 of the image you don’t like, hoping you will end up liking one. Maybe. If luck goes your way.
I encounter lots of people out using expensive and capable cameras. I rarely encounter photographers.
I know that’s a common technique now with modern cameras and obsession with some “perfect moment,” but to me this isn’t taking pictures, it’s just transporting your camera, pointing it in a direction, letting the camera do the “thinking,” and relying on luck. That’s all it is, luck.
I do mostly wildlife photography, most digital, these days (started with film decades ago, and worked as photojournalist for a time), but I still don’t do this. I’m not sure I’ve ever even used my burst mode. I don’t remember ever doing it for an actual photo.
I’m not trying to say that’s better, or worse, or anything, but I just can’t even fathom the burst mode mindset. Everybody seems to think there is some objective perfect moment, and that the job of a photographer is to manage to catch it somehow - because it exists, and you can only either catch it or miss it. Modern tools increase the chance of not missing it. This isn’t being a photographer, it’s gambling. Gambling while holding a camera. I fully can’t understand the attraction.
I’m sorry, but if you really only have 30 keepers out of 1600 pictures taken, you aren’t practicing photography, you are just clicking the shutter, hoping against hope that the camera will do all the important work.
Not to single you out, but include everybody else around here who make similar statements. 1 out of 40 is just relying on luck, and from what I can see, you aren’t having any.
What we saw is no reflection on the ratio of good or bad photos. Nor does the fact that someone takes over 5 million pictures matter. If you take pictures, you are either thinking about it and taking good pictures, or you are relying on luck and taking mostly wasted pictures. The choice is yours to make.