{"id":2149,"date":"2014-11-10T21:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2014-11-12T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:43:11","slug":"11791-photos-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=2149","title":{"rendered":"11,791 Photos – Now What ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been in Thailand for three weeks, and already have 11,791 photos. That works out to 3930 photos per week….561 photos per day.\u00a0 It is nuts. Really Nuts, though with a camera that can do 7 frames per second – it would only take 28 minutes to take that many photos.\u00a0 I digress – it isn’t just about the numbers.<\/p>\n

For me, photography can be compared to picking berries. You pick, and pick and pick while the picking is good and only stop when either your basket is full, or there are no more berries to pick.\u00a0 Then the real works starts by making jam from all those berries. Simply, the more berries you have, the more time you have to spend making jam.<\/p>\n

It is all about collecting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So – assuming that there is an infinite supply of berries and baskets ?. In photography terms that would mean an infinite supply of things to photograph, and endless hard drive space. Really this is entirely possible: there is so much to photograph and hard drives are cheap.<\/p>\n

At what point do you need to say\u00a0 ….ENOUGH !.<\/strong><\/p>\n

11,791 photos. Not commenting on the quality of the photos, surely 11,791 is enough; what the heck am I going to do with all those photos anyway ?.<\/p>\n

My basket is (at least temporarily) full, and it is time to do some thing with those images.\u00a0 Step one is to categorize and rank them, and delete the obvious bad images, decide on which images to keep as-is, which images need additional post processing (touch-ups) and, which to keep for additional creative processing (stretch and pull, wring and squeeze post processing). The process of categorizing, ranking, and deciding on how to process these images can take days!.<\/p>\n

How many Wat (Temples) photos is enough ?. How many photos of Buddha is enough ?. How many photos of the market stalls piles high with spices, fruit, or meat (?), do I really need ?. How many photos of Thai people is enough ?.<\/p>\n

There is probably no easy answerer to these questions, no ‘Coles’ to give the short answer, and asking Buddha will not give you the right answer.<\/p>\n

Oh – I miss the days of film. Each roll could only hold 36 exposures – so you were more selective before pressing the shutter.<\/p>\n

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Sunset at Wat Chedi Luang in Chaing Mai, Thailand.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rice fields in northern Thailand.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Elephant in black & white, in Chaing Mai, Thailand.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Live fish in the baggie, market in Chaing Mai, Thailand.<\/p><\/div>\n

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View from the train, from Bangkok to Chaing Mai.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’ve been in Thailand for three weeks, and already have 11,791 photos. That works out to 3930 photos per week….561 photos per day.\u00a0 It is nuts. Really Nuts, though with a camera that can do 7 frames per second – it would only take 28 minutes to take that many photos.\u00a0 I digress – it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,408],"tags":[551,549,554,553,548,552,947,555,561,560,1134,550],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-the-universe","category-travel","tag-chaing-mai","tag-frames-per-second","tag-hard-drives","tag-memory-cards","tag-motordrive","tag-photographers-dilemma","tag-photography","tag-post-processing","tag-say-enough","tag-selective","tag-thailand","tag-too-many-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}