Shots per day?

[Robert Blanko]

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Very often the problem is that you can hardly anticipate what to expect. I still remember when I made a mountain hike and spent the night   on top of the mountain for taking photos of the sunrise. The colors, light and clouds changed continuously. Almost every moment was amazing and unique - but how would you know in advance that maybe some moments would be less spectactular than moments at a later point in time? 😉 Thus, I easily took several dozens of photos within just a few minutes.

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[Good To Be Retired]

There would be, I suspect, a highly variable number involved here depending on what your subject matter might be.  As my wife an I tend to concentrate the bulk of our shooting on travel we have arrived at a good rule of thumb to allow battery/storage capacity of 500 images/day of travel handheld and available light.

Culling?  Hell, I never throw anything away

Processing on the other hand may take months after a month vacation in France.

I don't recall where we actually met this maximum number, but for planning purposes it seems a reasonable approach.  I do find that with the Leica or Hasselblad I shoot many fewer than with say, a Nikon D850.

[rpittal]

With view camera, 10 a day is a large number for me (5 with 8X10). When walking in the local woods for a couple of hours, I only take a few (10 to 25 maybe). However, when on a dedicated photo trip with all day photographing, 300 is my normal. With focus-stacking or panos (or both together), can be much higher. 

[Tailwagger]

After a quick scan of my library, per LR, as of yesterday, for this year I've averaged 64.35 shots per day so far. This includes virtual copies, PS edits, etc balanced by a few deletions of shots with serious technical flaws, so I'd guess the actual figure is somewhere between 50-55. Highest single day so far this year is 660 for a theater shoot. The maximum for a single day in the past five years was 914 which was a day of out and about followed by photographing a concert that evening, both front of house and backstage. I'd say that a typical day of serious shooting ranges from 75 to 300 captures, depending. 

[pippy]

For me shooting 'personal work' it varies enormously from around dozen or so to 300 (or thereabouts) on an all-day walkabout. I always throw the M-D over my shoulder every time I head out of the house and usually see something worth photographing - even if it's just a frame or two.

Having just checked the folders from the last few holiday breaks I seem to average around 350-400 per week but the majority of that number of frames would have been snapped on only two or three days (per week) when a reasonable amount of my spending 'quality-family-time' (although still only 2 or 3 hours) could be diverted towards 'proper' Photography - usually accompanied by my 16-y-o daughter who will be snapping with her Nikkormat FT2.

Philip.

EDIT : I've just calculated (roughly) my shooting-rate for the time I owned my M9-P and it averages out at around 45 frames per day.

Edited September 16, 2020 by pippy

[84bravo]

I can shoot 1000+ images on a big job in a day with my Leicas, but that's really the exception rather than the rule. I'm a working photographer and depending on the job I might shoot 200 or more frames a day. I also shoot pro sports with Canon DSLR cameras. I hammer those cameras during an MLB game, and probably more during college or NBA basketball. Even then I don't think I'm getting near 1000 frames. I am also filing my images while I'm working, four or five times during a baseball game and twice during basketball. I need to to meet deadlines, but it also makes it easier to edit in small bites as opposed to the whole take at once.

For sports I also tag my photos in camera so when I file I only look at the photos that were tagged to save time using PhotoMechanic (an industry standard editing program in the news business). I still haven't figured out how to tag my photos with my M10 cameras so that PhotoMechanic can segregate them.