Is this a record?

It is for me at least.

I was asked by the owner of a local photography studio to help shoot a major gymnastics meet this past weekend at the Convention Center in Indianapolis. There were several thousand girls competing. The meet started at 8:00am and lasted until 8:00pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He absolutely did not want "spray & pray" shots. He wanted every shot to count and to be "sell-able" if possible. So I took one at a time, and only took between about 5 & 12 shots of each young gymnast as she worked through her floor routine. Still, I took 5,918 shots, the majority of which were pretty good (IMHO).

The closest I've ever come to that number was a weekend of shooting a racing event. But that was less than half that amount.

Anyone else have a two or three day volume like that?

You've got me beat. I think the most I've ever shot in a weekend event was 3000 at a convention in Miami.

Most I did was 4K in two days.....but lots of spray and praying going on.

Most I've ever shot in a day would be around 3-400 - But I don't 'spray-and-pray', I try to nail the shot first time

A friend of mine got married and the photog gave the B&G around 1000 images to chose from! - When i got married 20 odd years a go we got around 50 and that took some sorting through if I remember.

It is for me too. I have never went over 2k in one day.

Bags not doing your PP.

Not only do you have look at each image, but you have to work out which are the best, not easy when they are all well thought out, and good images in thier own right.

Moppie wrote in post #5014376
Bags not doing your PP.

Not only do you have look at each image, but you have to work out which are the best, not easy when they are all well thought out, and good images in thier own right.

I agree. It almost reminded me of the old film days when you didn't want to waste money by taking bad shots. But it was very nice not to have to sort through the shots afterword. Someone else did that. I just shot it and turned in the card. I didn't even get the chance to see any of them until Monday after it was all over.

In that case I couldn't think of a better way to shoot

Did you consider how much it would have costed you to develop that amount of film?

ajbalazic wrote in post #5016285
Did you consider how much it would have costed you to develop that amount of film?

It's been long enough that I really don't remember what I paid for film processing, but wow! I can't imagine.