Holiday booked, memory cards packed and backup device ready...

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With about 250 gb of storage available I was all set for my 3 week holiday in Egypt. "Take a photo at every opportunity" I thought to myself. So now its 3 months since I came back and I'm still sifting through the 3,000 or so photos I took. All in raw too! There was another guy on the same trip as me who took about 100 pictures with his D80 and I was amazed at how he could be so restrained, now I think I know why.

As I work my way through each days pictures I find I'm deleting roughly a third of the pictures I took either because they are out of focus, wrongly exposed or more commonly, duplicates. This was my first holiday with my SLR but now I've learnt a valuable lesson when it comes to holiday photos. I will think about my shots more and take less pictures. Quality not quantity!

Hopefully by the end of the month I'll have a few ready to post up for C+C
 
I have found that every trip I do I take fewer and fewer shots but get a higher success rate by slowing down. Dragging a film camera around helps to do this as well. Mind you, once you start taking shots for HDR and panoramics you soon find your shutter tally going up again!
 
The beauty of digital is you are free to take as many as you like as long as you have storage!! I'd be taking more than 100 a day if I was in Egypt. My last visit was with a film SLR, I'd like a return visit now though with my DSLR. Hopefully you learnt a few lessons with your rejects that you can use next time you're out shooting. Best way to learn.
Looking forward to seeing the results
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When we go away, I take a netbook with me. Not the perfect tool for serious editing but good enough to spot binners. We go to Crete and they take siesta time fairly seriously, so it's an ideal time to sift through and dispose of the real dross. Of course, I keep a copy of everything anyway but it's rare that something I've binned there makes the cut when we get home.
 
im off on a cruise around the med in Sept, cannot wait first proper holiday with the DSLR. Cannot wait and I know I will take hundreds upon hurdreds of photos. Taking laptop and external hardrive for back-up and need to stock up on some memory card aswell.
 
There are people who think every photo taken should be a potential competition entry/winner. And there are people who like to document a journey and experience. I tend towards being the latter, with some artistic input at suitable points.

I have 35mm film photos of 2 week holidays that total less than a hundred, and I've just added up one two week trip with 50 photos. There are whole cities and days missing. My early digital days aren't much more productive because then (1998) memory cards were cripplingly expensive, and portable storage was non existent. Today I can go on a 2 week roadtrip (or a city walk) and come back with three or four thousand, all gps tagged, and the whole journey is recorded. When I've sorted them, I may have removed say a thousand. I do take some similar shots of scenes I wouldn't want to lose due to the camera not focusing perfectly or whatever. Some photos have no artistic merit whatsoever, but they tell me that I visited a slum of a town and when.
 
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When we go away, I take a netbook with me. Not the perfect tool for serious editing but good enough to spot binners. We go to Crete and they take siesta time fairly seriously, so it's an ideal time to sift through and dispose of the real dross. Of course, I keep a copy of everything anyway but it's rare that something I've binned there makes the cut when we get home.
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Me too. I have an external DVD burner (£50) and burn a DVD every couple of days while away. I also sift out the crap while I'm away as it saves time doing it back home.

That being said I took 1000s of photos when I was in Norway last year and I'm sick of editing them now. :D

Andy S
 
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