Wildlife Photography

[Bakbuk]

I keep all of mine

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

Yes. I have a folder for each camera, then in those folders are more folders labeled by year. View attachment 3214543

That seems like a lot of storage! My photos are about 8mb each I'd fill my harddrive in a week or two

Not anymore

Why not?

 

[Bakbuk]

Why not?

'Cause I've kinda got used to it

 

[casportpony]

Why not?

That seems like a lot of storage! My photos are about 8mb each I'd fill my harddrive in a week or two

Mine are about 6MB each. How big is your drive?

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

Why not?

Mine are about 6MB each. How big is your drive?

Not particularly big, just using a laptop I bought for my course at work for Word and things. Not meant for anything else, surprised it lets me use the photo editing programs!

 

[Bakbuk]

Why not?

Does anybody have any use for bad photos? They're just wasteful memory-hoggers.

 

[mdees88]

Is it not the weirdest feeling when you take 1000 photos but only end up keeping 10 or so?

I would feel weird if I ONLY took 1000 photos. I took 3000 today.

I typically take several hundred at a time, but I got trigger happy this afternoon, lol. I was with a couple herons for about an hour this afternoon. I kept sneaking closer and closer over the course of an hour so every time I got closer, I took new images. I'm a stickler for sharp images so every time I take in image, I usually rattle off at least 5 or 10 then I will pick the sharpest as my keeper. If he changes his pose, I rattle off some more. Then if he does something unique or fast action, I will hold the shutter down and rattle off a lot. When the light changes I take some more. I move around slightly to change my composition... I take some more. My cameras shoot at 20 and 30 frames per second. So, it only takes a few seconds to get hundreds of photos.

My files are big, so I do not keep many on my hard drive. The RAW files are around 45MB each, but I shoot in cRAW which cuts the size down to 21MB. Out of 3000 images, lol.... I put about 40 on my computer and ended up with a handful that I like. I used to keep all my images, but my laptop has been slow recently and I'm trying not to completely fill up my drive. @azurbanclucker is helping me with my first desktop build and I'm looking forward to getting it all put together. Will be dabbling around with video editing again...

Here's some from this afternoon....

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

That swan picture was so scary I'm not sure about other places, but they're a species protected by royalty here. The adult pair here has attacked more dogs then I can count and they've even killed quite a few. I don't blame the swans, they are acting on their natural instinct to protect their cygnets.

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

Unfortunately due to people refusing to keep dogs on their leash the council is having to cut down trees and build essentially a fence 3 metres from the waters edge to stop dogs attacking birds and nests.

 

[mdees88]

Got these last night....