Originally posted by robgski Sure, but how many pictures had you taken with all sorts of cameras and lenses in all sorts of conditions prior to taking that one image?
One picture, because I can visualize the picture in live view mode before it's taken. Pre-processing an image before it's taken or post-processing images is a deliberate choice. It's more difficult to get 1/1 success because it requires a lot of preparation and visualization, most people don't do it. I remember a time , I went days before on a landscpae location but I didn't take any picture, I came back again at the same spot in the evening but there wasn't any cloud so I didn't take any picture, I came back again the next day before sunset, dark moving clouds where here, and the sun setting at the horizon, I took one 2 minutes expose. I visualize the picture at the back of the camera and say "Bingo, I got it". I make two prints out of it. During that full week I took 15 pictures in total, got 6 prints. But I prepared weeks in advance, for selecting the location , finding the right time to go, looking a the weather forecast, scouting the location during the day for the next evening and early morning. I learned from Vieri Bottazzini (known as "The Madshutter" in PF,
https://www.vieribottazzini.com/), Vieri is former Pentax 645 user, and he's now shooting with a Phase One XT system and he's a Phase One ambassador. This took me to a completely different level, now I shoot less than 1000 pictures per years, but the quality of the pictures I take is outstanding.
Last edited by biz-engineer; 01-17-2022 at 04:53 AM.