How many photos & how much time for G&N session

[IVOlution]

Hello everyone,
I am not sure if the question is for G&N talk or Post-Processing threads and I believe that it was asked before but can't find anything...

How many photos you guys shoot per G&N session and how much time do you spend PP them and how many shots do you actually keep for your portfolio? And how many do you give to the model and which pics? I gave all the pics to my models and then I saw them post some really bad ones, well I did not like them but they did. I see that most of you have special agreements, with watermark, with-out, yes RAW file, no RAW file etc...
Since I am a newbie in this, i'm not pretty sure...I did 3 sessions so far, each around 300-500 shots, PP 50-60 of them and keep for me around 10 PPed more and better later on.
TooManyHobbies mentioned 300-2300 shots per session! So I am wondering how about the rest of you?...
Thank you 4 your time guys&gals
:lol:

[sandpiper]

I really can't give a simple answer to this, there are far too many variables. You need to define "a session" to get any useful answer, as you are likely to get a wide range of answers, but for different types of sessions.

A "session" for me can (typically) be anything from a couple of hours to a full day, although I have had a ten minute session on occasion and got a result I am really happy with. So you need to give an idea of how long a session you are looking at.

Also, what type of shoot? Studio shoots can be quite low on number of shots, long bursts not being practical with most studio outfits. So, carefully considered and timed single shots are generally the order of the day. If it is a complex setup you are working on to get a specific shot, most of the time can be spent on the makeup, styling, set and developing the pose. A session may last a couple of hours but only involve a dozen or two shots to get the one you need. On the other hand, a shoot may involve a number of different outfits and looks, so result in more shots. A full day location shoot can involve many different settings and outfits, with some possibly involving some sort of action which you are trying to capture, so requiring multiple rapid bursts. Such a day can result in a lot of images.

So, for me, a "session" can involve anything from half a dozen to several hundred shots (a full day location shoot being between 150 and maybe 600 shots, depending on what I am attempting to achieve).

As for PP, I will only work on the best and typically just a couple of each 'look', although maybe more if some are headshots, some full length etc. PP can be anything from 10 minutes to over an hour per image, depending on what I want to do.

I would say that a basic two hour studio shoot, with no complex ideas planned just getting some assorted shots with 3-5 changes of outfit, will involve 150-300 or so shots of which I will PP maybe a dozen. If it is a TFCD shoot, the model gets the ones I have worked on (both full res for making a print, and web-ready size). If the model is being paid, then that is what they get and images are not provided.

Your figures don't seem too unusual, for a 2-3 hour session. I would personally cringe at doing over 2000 shots in a session as it would take me several evenings to go through them all just to work out which ones I wanted to process. It is better to try and consider each shot at the shooting stage, working towards a previsualised result, rather than just blaze away and see what you get.

[IVOlution]

wooow, 1st of all this is a very long & nice answer, thank you.
You brought up some issues that I was not really aware of, or better said, did not concider them in my little "time-math" up there...I am too new for all these questions yet! Hahaha, LoL.
For me right now, a session means a simple indoor studio shoot with 3-4 outfit changes that will include many poseing attempts, since I am unfamiliar with the results of each pose combined with light and can not really predict the outcome. I am still not aware of all the "do" & "don't do that" facts and what I've imagined that the photo should look like, never happened so far...hahahah! Some other things happened(cool, good things and bad things)...
I am experimenting & learning and I thought that 500 pics is a lot for couple of hours session. I see now it is not that much...
very well, thnx again Sandpiper
:)

[Mark_Cohran]

How many images I shoot really depend on the session. Usually a few hundred - if the session is going well and I've got a good model, maybe more than 500. If the model needs a lot of direction or there are a lot of set changes, then less - sometimes much less. It really depends.

As far as processing goes, i take my time. About a week after the shoot, the model gets to review the images. If the shoot was TFP?CD we will pick the images during that time and then I take a couple of weeks to process them. If it's a paying client, then obviously the pace picks up.

[IVOlution]

Thanks again Mark!!!
:)

[cursedphotography]

I lack the experience of most here. Photography is more of a hobby. Though I have had the local shops
question me as to who owns the copyright to my pics when getting prints. But since changing to digital from my minolta 35mm. I find it better to shoot everything always easier to delete stuff that didn't turn out as opposed to missing that really great shot that wasn't planned. I'll shoot 50 to 150 an hr. Generally I find I like the off guard more candid shots as opposed the posed ones. The adjusting of a hem or the glance over at something brings more realism to the photo for me.