{"id":4893,"date":"2025-07-06T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:09:27","slug":"making-intentional-photos-when-shooting-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/06\/making-intentional-photos-when-shooting-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Making intentional photos when shooting digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I bought my Nikon D850, I ordered a 128 GiB CFexpress card to go with it, assuming that the camera’s high-resolution output would demand substantial storage. Yet, because of my approach to digital photography, I rarely fill more than a fraction of the card while I’m shooting. I seem to be as frugal with the shutter button as I am with a film camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, when these pictures<\/a> were taken, I shot identical number of frames with my Nikon D850 and my Nikon FM2, resulting in similar digital and film images. Here are the scans from the FM2 for comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With film, I am not only limited by the length of the roll\u201412, 24, or 36 frames\u2014but also by the actual cost of each exposure. In comparison, with digital I can shoot as many images as will fit on the CFexpress card, only constrained by the time I’m willing to spend on post-processing. Still, I continue to take photos with the same intentionality with both systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picture below is a good example of my intentional approach. On this occasion, I arrived on location 30 minutes before sunset, set up the tripod, and composed the shot. Then, I waited for the light to fall on the barracks. I took only four exposures: f\/11 @ 1\/30s, f\/11 @ 1\/60s, f\/11 @ 15s, and f\/11 @ 30s. These were the only four images I chose to capture on a card with a capacity for more than thousand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I bought my Nikon D850, I ordered a 128 GiB CFexpress card to go with it, assuming that the camera’s high-resolution output would demand substantial storage. Yet, because of my approach to digital photography, I rarely fill more than a fraction of the card while I’m shooting. I seem to be as frugal with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-1gV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4703,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/spring-colours\/","url_meta":{"origin":4893,"position":0},"title":"Spring colours","author":"Eddy Young","date":"28 April 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, P and I went on a long hike. 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