How many photos do you typically take?

[Shawn]

While on a hike, how many photos do you typically take?

Are you the types that has to photo everything or do you only take it for specific targets?

 

[Jeff Ulrich]

I usually take a lot of pictures when I'm out and about in the outdoors. With digital pictures and large capacity memory I see no reason not to. I try to take two or three shots of something of particular interest. They might all be nearly identical, but if one or more don't turn out well it sometimes pays off. I can always delete blurry or out of focus shots.

 

[Shawn]

I take a lot of photos and obviously share them on social media through my Hiking with Shawn brand.

Photos do better than videos on most social media pages, too, at least on mine, so I try to share them every day

 

[krJoest]

I take about 60 photos every trip, I get maybe 5-10 decent ones.

 

[Jeff Ulrich]

I take about 60 photos every trip, I get maybe 5-10 decent ones.

Yeah, that would be about what I do too.

 

[Shawn]

I tend to really focus and try to get a good photo. I'll spend several seconds to a minute taking photos of one scene to get that perfect one.

 

[Jeff Ulrich]

I tend to really focus and try to get a good photo. I'll spend several seconds to a minute taking photos of one scene to get that perfect one.

I wish I knew more about the settings on my camera. I have thought I would like to take a digital photography class sometime.

 

[Shawn]

I wish I knew more about the settings on my camera. I have thought I would like to take a digital photography class sometime.

Save your money and enjoy free YouTube unversity

Everything you need to know is there. Learn some settings and then find a simple target to practice on, like something in your backyard.

 

[Jeff Ulrich]

You may have a good idea. I also thought about getting a good book that was specific to my camera or at least to the brand. I've experimented with manual settings some, but often get better results with automatic.

I have an uncle who was a big photographer, both film and later digital. He has had his work featured in magazines. Unfortunately he is elderly and in declining health and the online gallery that he had is no longer up. I always thought if I lived closer to him, he would be the one to get photography tips and lessons from.

I may look into YT tutorials geared for my camera, an older Olympus DSLR. Olympus quit making DSLRs a long time ago, but I had an Olympus point and shoot and liked it and later bought this Olympus DSLR.

 

[Shawn]

And also put your camera in manual mode and just play around with the settings.

Learn from doing things on your own. That's helped me a lot.