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Day 22: Let me sleep!
Not the most fantastic wedding photograph of all time for sure, but I went with creative, cute, funny, and descriptive instead of cliché for today. More classic wedding portraits to come as time rolls on, promise :D
This title and picture pretty much described my day today. It was VERY AWESOME. also tiring. And silly and entertaining too. So the picture is perfect. It just describes every aspect of the day. For the record, I don't advise getting 5-7 hours of sleep over the course of the 3 days before a wedding and then shooting that entire wedding for 9 hours straight. I was moderately tired to say the least.
Did I let that stop me from having a blast? Goodness no. I worked hard, did what I'm confident was my very very best, and didn't stop except for a few bites at Paula Deen's restaurant during the reception.
The grand total for today is 2,553 pictures. That ads up to around 44.4 Gb of pure 1s and 0s all to describe a wedding day. Hey. Let's do some random calculating since it's 3 AM and I have the internet and a computer handy.
(unnecessary nerdiness commences here and ends two paragraphs down)
The pictures I shot today were RAW files (for editing flexibility), 10MP a piece, which come out to around 15 megabytes per image file. If a standard stereotypical picture is worth a thousand words, what were today's worth? Well, if we break that down to bytes (which I will equate with letters, think ASCII right?) that's 15,728,640 letters. I googled a lot just now and came up with 5.1 as the average word length in english, so that means that a RAW image file, or each photograph I made today was worth roughly 3,145,728 words. Good to know.
But wait. I took a total of 44,399,168,365 bytes (That's the exact count from my mac) worth of pictures today. That's on average 8,879,833,673 words. For comparison, the entire works of shakespeare are around 928,913 words. So I wrote like 9559.4 times more than the written works of shakespeare.
Now, I can't say that today's volume of written works was as well composed and constructed as shakespeare's, but with that much content, some of it's got to be really really good right? :D
All silliness aside, I hear that's a lot of pictures for a wedding, and I know Meghan, my tagalong/extra photographer/moral support/friend/helper today, got a couple hundred as well, so this couple should come away with plenty of gorgeous wedding pictures. I've looked through a few (enough to find this perfectly fitting one taken after the wedding just as the sun went down) and from the looks of it I'm very happy with how the entire day's photographs turned out. It was a lighting nightmare, as I hear most weddings are, but when it came down to it somehow everything worked out. I went into this more nervous than I care to admit, and coming out I'm extremely happy with everything. I suppose that's a good sign.
Up next: School project for photography assignment due monday, so another couple hundred pictures tomorrow (not shot in RAW. I'll try to keep it under 500Mb tomorrow. haha!) and then editing for these 2k pictures over the next week or two. Gotta keep the post-pro going as fast as possible because Chris (groom) ships out to afghanistan next week!
For now, sleep time. It was an awesome day. I love getting time to know the Coray family better. I already felt like part of their family, and It was awesome being treated as such this weekend. They're all so great. The Cole family is great as well. No lack of good conversations and meeting exciting new people this weekend. Much thanks to all of them.
Day 22: Let me sleep!
Not the most fantastic wedding photograph of all time for sure, but I went with creative, cute, funny, and descriptive instead of cliché for today. More classic wedding portraits to come as time rolls on, promise :D
This title and picture pretty much described my day today. It was VERY AWESOME. also tiring. And silly and entertaining too. So the picture is perfect. It just describes every aspect of the day. For the record, I don't advise getting 5-7 hours of sleep over the course of the 3 days before a wedding and then shooting that entire wedding for 9 hours straight. I was moderately tired to say the least.
Did I let that stop me from having a blast? Goodness no. I worked hard, did what I'm confident was my very very best, and didn't stop except for a few bites at Paula Deen's restaurant during the reception.
The grand total for today is 2,553 pictures. That ads up to around 44.4 Gb of pure 1s and 0s all to describe a wedding day. Hey. Let's do some random calculating since it's 3 AM and I have the internet and a computer handy.
(unnecessary nerdiness commences here and ends two paragraphs down)
The pictures I shot today were RAW files (for editing flexibility), 10MP a piece, which come out to around 15 megabytes per image file. If a standard stereotypical picture is worth a thousand words, what were today's worth? Well, if we break that down to bytes (which I will equate with letters, think ASCII right?) that's 15,728,640 letters. I googled a lot just now and came up with 5.1 as the average word length in english, so that means that a RAW image file, or each photograph I made today was worth roughly 3,145,728 words. Good to know.
But wait. I took a total of 44,399,168,365 bytes (That's the exact count from my mac) worth of pictures today. That's on average 8,879,833,673 words. For comparison, the entire works of shakespeare are around 928,913 words. So I wrote like 9559.4 times more than the written works of shakespeare.
Now, I can't say that today's volume of written works was as well composed and constructed as shakespeare's, but with that much content, some of it's got to be really really good right? :D
All silliness aside, I hear that's a lot of pictures for a wedding, and I know Meghan, my tagalong/extra photographer/moral support/friend/helper today, got a couple hundred as well, so this couple should come away with plenty of gorgeous wedding pictures. I've looked through a few (enough to find this perfectly fitting one taken after the wedding just as the sun went down) and from the looks of it I'm very happy with how the entire day's photographs turned out. It was a lighting nightmare, as I hear most weddings are, but when it came down to it somehow everything worked out. I went into this more nervous than I care to admit, and coming out I'm extremely happy with everything. I suppose that's a good sign.
Up next: School project for photography assignment due monday, so another couple hundred pictures tomorrow (not shot in RAW. I'll try to keep it under 500Mb tomorrow. haha!) and then editing for these 2k pictures over the next week or two. Gotta keep the post-pro going as fast as possible because Chris (groom) ships out to afghanistan next week!
For now, sleep time. It was an awesome day. I love getting time to know the Coray family better. I already felt like part of their family, and It was awesome being treated as such this weekend. They're all so great. The Cole family is great as well. No lack of good conversations and meeting exciting new people this weekend. Much thanks to all of them.