And the winner is….

A tie!

I took 2650 photos!!

Yeah, burst mode is great – except you accidentally take a shit-load of photos. (Shit-load of course being a technical term.)

So who won the great guessing contest?

We had a tie. Both guessed 2000 photos.

Hubman and Ourchangingviews

I will choose an appropriate prize and send it to you, so email me with your addresses, please.  
Here are the final numbers:
16.26 gb of hard disk space consumed (thank you, RAW!)
2650 photos 
Taken in about 9hrs….
Between 2 days….
edited down to ….
drum roll….
1067 photos.
Because I did not use a telephoto, I had to crop every fucking picture. 
I joked one day that I should have had a contest as to how many photos were of Domenico. I had about 250 of him.  
I started deleting ones that were not really anything different because, well, when you stand in one place on the track, you tend to get the same shot over and over again.  This is how I was able to get rid of so many.  Also, while trying to get the camera settings right on day one, I had to toss about 1000 photos for various reasons – mostly because they were out of focus.  
Also, I learned that if you are trying to capture something specific, you will likely take photos of only the people doing those specific things.  I started being able to recognize the motos without even zooming into the shot because I had seen them so many times in other shots.  
I learned some cool tricks with Lightroom.  If only this article had shown up earlier as it was a lifesaver after I found.  Copy is my friend.
Overall, I’m pretty damn happy with my shots.  There are some things I would do differently in the editing, so I may still tweak them later. We’ll see.  I need to look at something else for a while.
Here are some of them:
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5 Comments Add yours

  1. Hubman says:

    You cropped over 1000 photos? Wow, I’d be blind by now if I tried that!

    I’m looking forward to seeing the shots you saved.

  2. WOWSERS!!! i bet your wrist hurts! Can’t wait to see it!

  3. OsShirt says:

    There’s supposed to be pics?

  4. Emmy says:

    Thanks Os, yes there were supposed to be picks. Looks like blogger ate them?

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