Shooting Stats: December 2006
Photography December 31st, 2006I thought I’d post my photography shooting stats each month so I can keep a tab on how my photography is coming along. A few of you who have asked for more personal and “statty” posts should enjoy this too.
Images Taken: 1,685
Images Kept: 966
HD Space Used: 5.57GB
Average Shots Kept Daily: 31
Shots With 18-55 Lens: 856
Shots With 75-300 Lens: 101
Shots With Other Cams: 9
December 31st, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Wow, so you love photography too. Me too but never that good. [btw, why is that your site never remembers my credentials if I want to comment again]
December 31st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
I find the average shots kept daily stats amazing, you must be taking some great photos Glenn.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I like taking photos, but I always suck. Maybe it’s just because I use the “auto” setting on my two standard camera. Perhaps I’ll need to buy a pro one with a giant lens or something… hmm…
@Brajeshwar: Same thing with me with the credentials — but I guess it’s not too much to ask to fill in three fields each time you want to comment.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:56 pm
@ zzap & Brajeshwar: If you sign up, you won’t need to retype your name, e-mail address etc. each time you post a comment.
Glenn, I moved to Aperture today! Imported my entire photo library over.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:46 am
Hey, neat idea. I like. Interesting, as I am one of your fellow stat junkies. ;)
January 1st, 2007 at 6:35 am
Registration added too header.
January 1st, 2007 at 7:14 am
zzap: The camera does not make the photographs. You could have the best camera in the world, but if you don’t know how to use it, the photos will still be crappy.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 am
Glenn, just wondering something. Do you make it a goal to shoot pictures everyday? If you do, that’s awesome. I can’t wait to get my DSLR!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:57 am
How are you keeping track of these? Is it built-into an app?
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:59 am
Shreedhan, I have smart albums set up in Aperture. They work really well for keeping tab on my shooting stats and preferences.
Joe, yes. My goal is to take ten pictures a day. Once I get out I just cant stop at ten and it turns to fifty.
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Thats a lot for one month. Do you just go on walks with your camera to take pictures?
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I do, I go on walks where my only aim is to take images. Sometimes I go out with a plan on shots I want, sometimes I just shoot without a plan. Thats that way I take most of my best shots, without a plan.
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
@Glenn: How long are the walks? Also, where do you go?
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Wow, Glenn! That sounds like so much fun. I do that when I have assignments in my photography calss, but I really prefer digital over the dark room (even though the I love the dark room). I just hate have a roll of film. Digital just opens so many doors!
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
@Dustin: Yeah, you’re right; but you still need to tweak with the camera settings. I’ll need to learn how to use my camera this year, though.
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
@zzap: I have to do the same. I took pictures this Holiday Season with both my point and shoot Canon and my Canon Digital Rebel XT and some with the point and shoot actually came out better. I have to learn more about how to use my SLR this year for sure!
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Glenn, remember how I told you that I’d switched to Aperture? Well, I switched back. :-(
I couldn’t take it. Aperture was too slow and it didn’t feel like an iLife app. Everything felt different, all the buttons were in odd places.
When I initially tried Aperture on my MacBook Pro a while back, it worked fine, but now with all my new photographs, it was lagging like hell!
Another thing, Aperture doesn’t handle videos! And I’ve got quite a few videos from my digital camera in iPhoto.
Anyway, I think I’ll stick to the n00b app for now.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 am
@ Smaran: Was Aperture laggy on your MBP cause you had a lot open? That could slow it down, but I can’t imagine it laggy on a MBP.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 am
No, Tucker, only Aperture and a few Finder windows were open. At one point I was decompressing an archive, but even when that was over, Aperture ran slowly.
I have a 2.16ghz MacBook Pro Core Duo with 1 GB of RAM and a 100 GB hard disk. The only background processes running were iCalAlarmScheduler and iTunesHelper. Keep in mind, I have quite a lot of photographs. I had also just imported them from iPhoto.