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Hi Kevin, I enjoyed your analysis of your kayaking photo shoot. My camera is a very cheap Kodak point and shoot. I have a lot of fun with it but I plan to upgrade after I learn more about photography and cameras. Some of what you discuss is pretty advanced for me, but I know I have to learn these things. I can relate what it feels like when your camera turns into a “paperweight” while it transfers images to the storage card. 
I must say that you’ve got a beautiful website here. I’m going to take some time to look through your archives. Have a great day!
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Wow, thank you for the explanation. I had no idea so much as involved. I haven’t ventured into the realm of raw yet, most because of running out of storage. I have two 2gb disks, which I’m afraid will run out.
Secondly, I’m not sure what I would do with them once I had them. I’m just now starting to learn Photoshop, plus I only have the first edition, so there are limits.
One thing I have learned, which your post illustrates is that taking more shots gives you many more options. When I’m shooting at a location with crowds, you never know what you’ll get until you get home. Someone might be doing something you don’t like, sticking out their tongue, playing with a body part, or just looking away from the camera. Who knows. Depending on what you’re shooting, more shots might be necessary.
I’ve never figured out how many shots I can take per second, because I haven’t shot too many sporting events. But that might be information I need in the future.
Thanks for the great post, Kevin. It’s extremely useful………….:)
Hi Lisa,
You owe it to yourself to slowly work into the world of RAW. I was very intimidated at first but once I started shooting RAW only I quickly became comfortable and was thinking that I wish I hadn’t shot the previous 20,000 photos in JPEG only. Mind you, this is when memory cards were in the range of $200 per GB! I wrote about some of these issues in a previous post Kevin’s Digital Photography History. I’m working on a series of articles that talk about many of these subjects.
Your mention of shooting in crowds is an excellent use of burst photography; this is another area I shoot bursts of 4 to 6 images. It’s amazing how out of 4 photographs one image is just “better” than any of the others. A better smile, legs in a better position, two people separated not overlapping. This is also an excellent technique for theatre and live music, no wonder I have so many images!
Having these “slightly” better photographs is often what gets me work and makes my photographs that “little bit better” than the competition. Hard drive space is cheap these days!
Hi Kevin, I enjoyed your analysis of your kayaking photo shoot. My camera is a very cheap Kodak point and shoot. I have a lot of fun with it but I plan to upgrade after I learn more about photography and cameras. Some of what you discuss is pretty advanced for me, but I know I have to learn these things. I can relate what it feels like when your camera turns into a “paperweight” while it transfers images to the storage card.
I must say that you’ve got a beautiful website here. I’m going to take some time to look through your archives. Have a great day!
Thanks Diane,
Hope you have some time to browse; there are lots of interesting images hidden away in the archives.
I always find it wonderful when people head out to do photography without the best equipment in the world for the pure joy of photography. This is the way I started as well. As you learn you can upgrade by making good decisions based on your experience.
What has always frustrated me the most is the odd student I used to teach that had far more equipment than I could ever dream of yet knew absolutely nothing and were too “over equipped” to really learn properly. Equipment doesn’t make the photographer although it can help if the knowledge is there.