How Many pictures do you take?

[Kellyscrapbooks]

Well...we went on a 12 day trip, and took 1743 pictures, plus the 326 that came on my Photopass cd.
I'm a scrapbooker and it was our first family vacation.
I also had a laptop with me that I used to upload our pictures to nightly.

 

[macmahony]

If you start the sentence out with,
"this might sound a little harsh"

Chances are it is

 

[belle&beast]

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This is going to sound more harsh than I intend, but for the people who take thousands of pics on a trip...are you really living in and experiencing the moment if your whole trip is spent trying to capture every detail for posterity?

I take pictures all the time, so my family is used to a quick pose here and there, and I took a lot of candid shots, too. We also had 2 cameras. (I still can't give up my film ) I have friends that take just a few pictures, and some that take even more than me. I have to say I am good at getting a quick shot when nobody else even knows I am taking a picture. My kids also asked for pictures of specific things because they love to look at the pictures and scrapbooks later. So, I think we all enjoyed the magic while taking lots of pictures to help remember it.

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

I'm not going to fight with you macmahony. I asked a question and you took offense. It happens and I'm not going to worry about it.

For everyone else - I asked the question for this reason. My son is in a performing arts school and we go to a ton of performances every year. DH and I take turns filming them, because we've found that when you are filming you really aren't taking in the entire show. I've missed so much when it is my turn to film, and you can't get that initial experience back.

 

[belle&beast]

I think you have a legitimate question, and people ask me all the time how I can take so many pictures. I have found there is a big difference between taking lots of videos and snapshots. I agree, I hate to be behind the video camera because you can't enjoy what you are watcing, but I don't find that with a still camera. Hope this helps!

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

I actually love photopass for this reason. We all pose and we're outta there.

belle&beast - I love quick snapshots too. My favorite pictures of DS are the ones I take when he is completely unaware of the camera.

 

[macmahony]

Just for what it worth, I did not take offense, but when you start a sentence with

This might sound harsh,
well, then maybe you should not say it

I don't care what you think, we take lots of pictures, not just at disney EVERYWHERE, where one person might take one shot we take 15, out entire house if filled with picture of our girls, going up our stairs, we have over 100 shots framed and on the wall, we are picture people, but I really don't care if you know that or not.

But, I also stated, we don't do video, we don't like it, we don't like being stuck to a video camera, we don't enjoy it, cameras to us do not give us that feeling. We might take 30 shots riding just dumbo, waiting in line, the girls watching a parade, but I have never felt like I missed something because we used the camera. I have said it a million times, I get home, and look at the pictures, and wish we had taken more, and that is not just at disney that is everywhere.

 

[momof5boys]

macmahony, you must have a great camera! Last time I went to WDW I stopped taking pictures because my son's martial arts teacher was getting alot and told me he would burn a disc for me. He took over 4000 pics. in 3 days! The disc I got so far only has a few hours of epcot on it! I snap alot of pics. but only print out the best ones so about 300 each trip. If I get a better camera I'd probably take alot more!

 

[amcazier]

My family and I just went down to Disneyland for 3 days. I carried both my video camera and digital camera with me and took about 350 pictures and 2 hours of video. It was so much fun! You can see a quick highlight of our trip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTunwPXx9sU

 

[macmahony]

we do not print them all, but probably at least half of them. I love our camera, we went to use it at christmas and it was not working! We had to use our video, which we hate! Thankfully, we got the warranty, and now it is fixed.
We don't have one with different lens, maybe some day, but the people we travel with do, and I don't know if I would want to travel with one, it was a lot to carry around, a lot to deal with. We have a very high end, as large a zoom as it comes digital (probably outdated now at 2 years old!)
I was so devestated when it was not working, I love it, and was sad to think I might have to get a new one!
We also take pictures of very silly mundane things, maybe some day I will eventually scrapbook!

 

[weezy26nm]

We went last July (1st trip ever) and we took around 750 and I wish I had taken more (except when it comes time to develope them).

 

[Servants of Evan]

I average 140+ per day. I usually carry a minimum of 10GB worth of memory, and won't delete anything until I can download it and check it on my 24" monitor. You'd be surprised how many shots I would have instantly dismissed as trash wind up getting recycled in one form or another and turn into keepers...

 

[kc10family]

on our last 3 day trip DH took 900
on our last 8 day trip her took 2700

can you say Paparazzi

 

[gabbysmom04]

we took over 2000 on our last trip! we go every few months and still take pics of the same things over and over!

 

[oxfordcircus]

I took about 100 per day on my last trip and downloaded the cards each night to my laptop.

ETA: be sure to get pics of your family/friends. When I look back at my pictures, I skip most of the ones that don't have one of us in it.

 

[jenseib]

I won't be able to upload them each day. They will be with me till I get home!!
I guess I'll just wing it and see. I may forget to get the camera out at times too.

 

[macmahony]

All four of the parks have some sort of camera store, we only used the one in MGM, it is right as you walk in, by the stoller rental.
We were out of room on both cards, we gave them one, waited about 10 minutes, and they burned a cd right there for us. Then we cleared the card.
If you run out of room on the card you can always do that, I don't remember exactly what we paid for it, but it was not expensive at all.

 

[dadof2]

We usually take between 400-600, each night I download them to the laptop & make a back up cd, never can be to safe! You can purchase your entire photopass. It was $99, the price increased to somewhere around $125.00 in January.

 

[Disneyforus]

I have a question about the photopass...I understand how it works but where are these photographers stationed? Would I be getting a variety of pictures or just posed pictures with different backgrounds? I'm confused? Someone said they had over 300 pics on their photo pass...of what? Do they take pictures of you on rides? Meeting characters?

Sorry for my ignorance on this.

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less than 2 months till we leave on our first family trip to Disney!!

 

[belle&beast]

I have a question about the photopass...I understand how it works but where are these photographers stationed? Would I be getting a variety of pictures or just posed pictures with different backgrounds? I'm confused? Someone said they had over 300 pics on their photo pass...of what? Do they take pictures of you on rides? Meeting characters?

Sorry for my ignorance on this.

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less than 2 months till we leave on our first family trip to Disney!!

In January 2006, the Photopass photographers were everywhere! They were always at the entrances of the parks and with the characters. We also got some really great nighttime shots, they were taking pictures with Cinderella's Castle and Spaceship Earth in the background at night. We did have over 300 pictures on ours- it was easy to do!