The unexpected side effect of my unorthodox shooting technique

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Hey Peter. I have a bunch of questions--I'll start with an easy (peripheral) one: when do you normally get a chance to cull before you get home ? I find myself almost entirely occupied during even a long day--I barely take time to eat my meal; and if I'm sitting around at a table (a rarity), I'm usually talking with guests, my assistant.

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All the props to you for getting the job done however you can. I find it strange, but thats irrelevant if the results are there.

I use to cull images while I was shooting, but I've since stopped, and dedicated my full attention to shooting the story. Not much happens in those split seconds it takes to delete or rate photos, but it is possible to miss a moment. I try to keep a camera glued to my eye as much as I can all throughout the day.

Thanks, Peter. I concur with Trent and see every second spent deleting on the scene as a second I can spend concentrating on what's going on around me. When it comes to deleting literally just after you've taken the photo (of, say, a group portrait), I'd be concerned with losing the rapport (because of lost eye-contact, concentration on them) I usually have going on with my subjects. I trust that this style doesn't cause an issue for you, but I think it would for me.

I have a question about the K setting that you might be able to clear up. When I read in another thread that you use this technique to set WB, I tried walking over to a tungsten-lit room to see if I could guess the right K setting. Not only was I very wrong (something that could be improved upon, obviously) but I found that even after futzing around with various numbers, NONE did a decent job of neutralizing the WB--it was just too amber. Do you use K in conjunction with a 'WB-shift' ?

I definitely read this with great interest and I feel I can learn from you. Thank you for sharing your methods!

You say you set C1, C2, C3 for different lighting. 1. How do you keep them straight? As in which setting goes for which lighting? 2. Are they only different by ISO or am I missing what you were saying? 3. Are your shutter speeds and aperture determined by the lens you have on the camera you're using (I realize you have more than one body being used at a time).

Thanks again!

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memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #16322494
1) If you walk into a room it will be rare to have more than three types of lighting e.g. window lighting, artificial lighting and and blend of the two. The WB will vary across the three as well. I set C1, C2 and C3 for that environment. how do you keep them straight? If you notice a change you tweak as you go, re-registering as necessary (I have them on a custom menu in the camera along with a few other settings which I want easy access to).

2) They can be different by any of the three settings ISO, shutter speed or aperture. Depends what I want available to hand.

3) Aperture is determined by what aperture I want to be using, shallow or not. Shutter speed by what is appropriate for what I am shooting and the effect I want. e.g. if someone is moving it will likely be faster.

Thanks!

I don't view/delete pics during downtime - too easy to accidentally delete something meant to be kept, or miss something that happens... on the wedding day, the camera is meant for taking pictures, nothing else...

but I wish I had time to review shots throughout the day and lessened my workload later on!

Peter, I came across your post about your LV technique a few weeks ago and love the idea, especially setting different areas to the custom shooting modes. However, I'm intrigued by the mention of your other technique when using on-cam flash...would you be able to explain more?