9K pictures

[USER876]

My friend just got married and her photographer gave her 9000 proofs to look through and select album pictures. I thought that was a bit much since most people get 500-1000 max. Is that a little strange?

[funlovincamera]

9000?! Wouldn't that be 10+ DVDs worth of images? I'm not sure I'd have the patience to sort through that, even if it was my own wedding!

[Pete]

Ouch...!!

We had 350 to look through for ours - that was plenty.

[booboo]

how many photographers does she has have??? Talk about high speed multi shot!!!

[Pete]

At 60 frames a second, that would make for a 2 1/2 hour film...

[Karl Johnston]

9000 ...not even www.em34.com does that without good reason.

[Anke]

Wowser!! We let our photographer choose ours. Much easier.

[hawkeye60]

At 60 frames a second, that would make for a 2 1/2 hour film...

No that would be 2-1/2 minutes. Regardless, that's still a lot of photos...

[Pete]

No that would be 2-1/2 minutes. Regardless, that's still a lot of photos...

:o

....I pause often....

[kaitanium]

photographer probably machine gunned his camera. n00b. =P
if im a little more trigger happy on a full 12hr wedding day i get about 2000. but usually i average 1000-1500.... 9000 is just....wow. jerry ghionis would laugh at that one.

sorry i shouldnt diss. ill be nice.

[hawkeye60]

:o

....I pause often....

Me too...

[AlexMoPhotography]

And so begins the rise of animated photography...

[Karl Johnston]

Em34 was ? LOL well what do you know..hes in the other thread below this one

[kaitanium]

And so begins the rise of animated photography...

not a bad idea for us who dont have a 5d mkII that can record video! stop animation...

cant canons point and shoots already do that? haha

[tim]

If a wedding photographer gave me 9000 photos i'd give them back and tell them to give me the best 500. That's just damned lazy of the photographer.

[samnz]

Yip - that's pretty outrageous. Tell your friend to give them back to the photographer and say "I'd like THAT one"

The most I've ever presented was 700, and that was over two days and a family wedding at that!

[howzitboy]

id go back to photographer and say "thats all u took? why did i pay u soo much?" haha

thats crazy! either wanted to NOT miss anything or really unconfident photographer. and fact that they gave all the shots to couple means "newbie"!! imho....

[jonwhite]

As Tims already said it sounds like the photographer is being lazy and expecting the clients to do the culling for him..... unless of course the client has demanded every shot that the photographer takes on the day ..... in which case it sounds like the tog is teaching them a lesson :)

[SuzyView]

If I took 2000 images, I'd only allow 300 to go to the B&G. That's seriously not the way to go. You always want to show your best work, and nothing else. Also, it is the sign of a lazy PPer. Unless that was the deal and you are not paying for the PP. But that's part of doing the shoot, picking the ones to present as proofs. I have heard of this, but I don't think it's very fair to the B&G.

[tsw910]

wow .. talk about spraying and preying .. 9000 ?

[dmitrim]

9000 ...not even www.em34.com (http://www.em34.com) does that without good reason.


You serious, he gives 9000 images to his clients? Where did you get that info. I'd love to read up more on that.

[form]

I have just done two wedding shoots of 3.5 and 5.5 hours where I apparently shot over 1400 on the first and over 1700 on the second. I really don't know how I clicked so many frames off during that time; it just happened. I think that I really have to cut down because that's way too many.

[bps]

No offense, but I find this hard to believe. That's one image every 15 seconds for 10 hours straight, with absolutely no breaks.

I find this hard to believe.

Bryan

[NickSimcheck]

Wow.

Even on my first wedding I think I shot 1500 and gave the couple 250-300ish.

And it's been going down in numbers since...

[NickSimcheck]

No offense, but I find this hard to believe. That's one image every 15 seconds for 10 hours straight, with absolutely no breaks.

I find this hard to believe.

Bryan

Yeah but fire off a 3 shot burst everytime and that number gets bumped up to every 45 seconds. Problem is memory, but if it was shot only in JPEG... I believe it.

[bps]

Yeah but fire off a 3 shot burst everytime and that number gets bumped up to every 45 seconds. Problem is memory, but if it was shot only in JPEG... I believe it.

Even then, have you tried doing this for 10 hours straight? I still find it hard to believe.

[Karl Johnston]

You serious, he gives 9000 images to his clients? Where did you get that info. I'd love to read up more on that.
The OP must've deleted the comment, I remember him saying it was em34

[tcats14]

Might as well put all the frames together and make it a wedding video. video goes what 30 pics per second.. I just got my camera and am shutter nervous I guess you could say Im afraid if i take to many pictures my shutter will wear out

[NickSimcheck]

Even then, have you tried doing this for 10 hours straight? I still find it hard to believe.


No I know...

Maybe it was his adrenaline rush that kept him goin' :lol:

[amironsi]

that's too much.... and sure they are not 9000 good shots... i think he just didn't want to go through them

[tim]

Pfffft I shoot 25,000 photos in four hours and show the best 9,000. Every second counts folks.

[NickSimcheck]

Pfffft I shoot 25,000 frames in four hours and show the best 9,000. Every second counts folks.


Fixed.

[SuzyView]

Thank heavens we know you are kidding, Tim. Anyone who takes that many pictures may be a good pro, but not a very nice one. The B&G will spend the first year of their marriage sifting through the images. :) Not very nice.

[tcats14]

unless of course its a wedding video...

[picturecrazy]

wow 9000 frames? That is a third of my entire wedding season! I have trouble culling 1000, let alone 9000! Are you serious or are you exaggerating?

[S.Horton]

Are you sure it wasn't 900?

I can't shoot 9K images in a full day of sports, and I shoot far too many frames......

[DDCSD]

Wow, my mother was actually mad that our photographer gave us ~600 proofs. She thought that 50-100 would have been more than enough.

I shot a basketball tourney last month that started at 8am and ended at around 10:30. I shot two courts at the same time throughout the day, only stopping for a few hotdogs and Cokes. I only shot 1832 frames during that 15 hours.

[DDCSD]

9000 ...not even www.em34.com (http://www.em34.com) does that without good reason.

That guy puts way too many photos per page on his websites. I have a very fast connection and it takes minutes to load all the photos he puts in a single page.

[S.Horton]

^^ Exactly. I think I shot 3K frames one day, about that long.......

[dcad10]

not to mention... at 9000 shots per wedding... think about the shutter actuations you are compliling. 100,000+ actuations after just 12 weddings.

[mattograph]

If a wedding photographer gave me 9000 photos i'd give them back and tell them to give me the best 500. That's just damned lazy of the photographer.

Agreed. Not a professional. A pro only ever lets a client see the best representation of his work.

Unless he shot 27000 images -- then maybe it WAS his best work!


For fun..... Tell your friend to pick one image, and order 1 8 x 10. That's all!

Bet the shooter freaks!

[alt4852]

No offense, but I find this hard to believe. That's one image every 15 seconds for 10 hours straight, with absolutely no breaks.

I find this hard to believe.

Bryan

1. burst shooting
2. most professional photographers have seconds.

[tim]

1. burst shooting
2. most professional photographers have seconds.

And they must keep their finger on the burst shooting button for pretty much all of those seconds.

[DDCSD]

So, it would take 5 hours just to look at every photo once for ~7 seconds each.

I'd probably shove the album up the photographer's tailpipe if I had to to take that long just to glance at my wedding photos.

[USER876]

Clarification......she said she thinks he took 9K because of the picture numbers. He actually gave her 3K (number sequence broken over 9K span).

[S.Horton]

Ah, so, if you looked hard, you'd find the numbers start at, say, 8500, break, then 0-1500, or 100-1600.........

That's till too many -- The photog just 'dumped' everything.

[DDCSD]

Or they used two bodies that were fairly close in file numbers.

I agree that 3,000 is still way too many.

[tcats14]

lol I dont think they would be able to complain about you missing a shot if you took soo many pictures but then again you never know..

[S.Horton]

lol I dont think they would be able to complain about you missing a shot if you took soo many pictures but then again you never know..

I've noticed that -- People will "swear" you took "that one photo" right between two consecutive frames........ Or, they expect some shot which exists only in their mind, but they're "absolutely sure" you have it.

;)

[airfrogusmc]

So, it would take 5 hours just to look at every photo once for ~7 seconds each.

I'd probably shove the album up the photographer's tailpipe if I had to to take that long just to glance at my wedding photos.

Usually over shooting is a sign of inexperience. Better to get 250 good images than 9,000 that may or may not have 250 good images in the entire bunch. ;)

[PhotoMatte]

If a wedding photographer gave me 9000 photos i'd give them back and tell them to give me the best 500. That's just damned lazy of the photographer.

Yes, this is what I would do as well. Just out of curiosity, was there anything in the contract that said you might be getting 9000 images? I always tell my clients to expect around 400 for a full day wedding (out of the 1500 or so that I take).

[CarolAnn]

holy crap!

Is that in Color, black and white, sepia, etc.?
I can see them doing the same photo in different varieties, to add up to 9,000 photos. but WOW. that's a LOT.

[dmitrim]

The OP must've deleted the comment, I remember him saying it was em34

I suppose it's how they perhaps justify their prices.

Sir, it's $9,000 for the coverage,BUT we guarantee minimum of 9,000 images. Which is only $1/image. :lol:

[_aravena]

Most I've gave was...800+ (out of 1100) but I did multiple edits and it was for a friend who wanted everything. It was fun, gave me a chance to experiment but that's insane! Right now I'm finishing 700+ and they'll get 500-600 maybe. Key word is maybe! :D