OMG Back from NZ with LOTS of pics!

[stubbsy]

Sheepie (Leon) and I have been on hols in NZ for the last 3 weeks. Back home today after a 7 am departure from NZ (that meant getting OUT of bed to be there for check in at 3:30 am NZ time or 1:30 am AEDST - and I'm not a morning person). Anyways, Leon is back home with his darling wife and I'm home with my 2 cats No doubt you'll start to see some pics from us both, but as a taster of the PP task I have, look at the graph below showing the day by day file size breakdown of my images before my first pass image cull and delete. Yes that's right there are 6600 or so files taking up 66Gb of space. I'll be busy!

And of course there are 4000 or so forum posts to browse

[Glen]

Peter, who was the nerd you got to do the bar graph for you of your daily efforts. I could use them to do some well overdue high school maths assignments.


Welcome back

[gstark]

So, Peter,

Didja take any photos?


Welcome back.

[Kris]

Stubbsy, thats a MASSIVE amount of shots

Could you also put some info as to your most used focal length using exposure plot? What did you mostly shoot?

This would be helpful for me planning my 3month trip come May ! Cant believe you shot 70gb

[sirhc55]

Welcome back Peter - nice saturation of colours in your pic

[sirhc55]

Cant believe you shot 70gb

I can - Peter must have been in the SAS as he has a most responsive trigger finger

[phillipb]

Good onya Peter!

I believe nail polish remover dissolves super glue, in case that's what you got on your trigger finger.

Get to work and let's see some photos.

[Nnnnsic]

They have bar graphs in New Zealand? What an odd photo.

I expected you to take photographs of a bar, not a photograph of a bar graph.

It looks a bit over-saturated with singular colours to me Stubbsy. Is there something wrong with your camera?

[Alpha_7]

Welcome back Peter, it's been a little quiet without you, but I've had my fingers crossed you had some good photography inducive weather while you were there.. not that it would of stopped you had it not!

Since you've given us a little teaser with you bar graphs, I agree with Kris give us a few more, ISO distrubtion, focal lenght, shots per lens..
(Must be easier to upload a few graphs) then sift, sort, and PP and upload the actual photos.

This has however given me some hope, as I expected to take more photos then this when on my europe trip, but if anything you usually shoot more then I do, at any given meet. Factor in, Europe probably has a larger variety of things to see and shoot, I think I should be safe under the 120GB limit

[the foto fanatic]

Only 6633 files?

There are 45 million sheep in New Zealand and some of them are very disappointed that they didn't get their portrait done too.

[MCWB]

They have bar graphs in New Zealand? What an odd photo.

It's a baa-graph.

[radar]

Welcome back Peter and Leon,

I didn't think they had that many sheep to photograph in NZ

Looks like you were trying to catch up some lost ground in the last week or you were probably on the South Island in the mountains. Either way, I'm looking forward to your take on NZ.

Get some sleep and then get those photos PP'd

Cheers,

André
(got to get my Canada photo's PP'd )

[Greg B]

I would be interested to see broadly what you were doing on each day



Then, an analysis of the keeper rate. Both actual and relative.

This is fine work.

[Geoff]

Welcome back Peter.
I think you should have under your name here on the forum (apart from Moderator) SUPER NERD

Great stuff, can't wait to see your pics!

[glamy]

Did you have a video camera as well?

[Reschsmooth]

I presume there is a negative correlation between the amount of NZ pinot drunk one day and the number of photos taken the next?

P

[Oscar]

What happened Peter - I see a few really slack days in amongst your usual photographic days?? Feeling sheepish on a few days maybe?

So 6000 shots of sheepie and 600 odd shots of sheep?

Welcome back and post some of your usual stuff asap.

Cheers, Mick

[stubbsy]

Could you also put some info as to your most used focal length using exposure plot? What did you mostly shoot?

This would be helpful for me planning my 3month trip come May ! Cant believe you shot 70gb

Here's a breakdown by lens I guess that will be of some help Kris.

Code: Select all

Lens            # Pics
10.5 FE            490
12-24 DX           785
28-70 2.8         4532
70-200 VR          803

As for the quiet days:
Day 3 - we arrived in Palmerston North (where Leon's parents provided some free accommodation) and went to the local speedway that night (I left my camera at home to avoid the dust, but Leon took a lot of pics)
Day 10 - crappy weather on the drive from Lake Taupo back to Palmerston North so very few shots that day
Day 11 - A day off in Palmy so we could wash our clothes ready for the south island leg
Day 15 - we had 2 days in Franz Josef to see the glaciers there and at Fox. The weather on day the first day wasn't good enough to get on the glaciers, but we covered everything else in sight. The second day the weather was no better so we did a long drive to Queenstown

Day 18 was Milford Sound and I obviously took a lot of shots of the rain

As for wine - we drank a total of TWO bottles while there (no free time for such frivolity) - a 2004 Matua Merlot and a 2005 Cloudy Bay Pinot both excellent and < NZ$16.

[Killakoala]

Streuth, did you see anything outside your viewfinder?

It is understandable though as NZ is such a photogenic place and pointing your camera in any direction will get a nice image

(Obviously that is not really true as photographic skills count for a lot, but you get my drift?)

[Kris]

Could you also put some info as to your most used focal length using exposure plot? What did you mostly shoot?

This would be helpful for me planning my 3month trip come May ! Cant believe you shot 70gb

Here's a breakdown by lens I guess that will be of some help Kris.

Code: Select all

Lens            # Pics
10.5 FE            490
12-24 DX           785
28-70 2.8         4532
70-200 VR          803

As for the quiet days:
Day 3 - we arrived in Palmerston North (where Leon's parents provided some free accommodation) and went to the local speedway that night (I left my camera at home to avoid the dust, but Leon took a lot of pics)
Day 10 - crappy weather on the drive from Lake Taupo back to Palmerston North so very few shots that day
Day 11 - A day off in Palmy so we could wash our clothes ready for the south island leg
Day 15 - we had 2 days in Franz Josef to see the glaciers there and at Fox. The weather on day the first day wasn't good enough to get on the glaciers, but we covered everything else in sight. The second day the weather was no better so we did a long drive to Queenstown

Day 18 was Milford Sound and I obviously took a lot of shots of the rain

As for wine - we drank a total of TWO bottles while there (no free time for such frivolity) - a 2004 Matua Merlot and a 2005 Cloudy Bay Pinot both excellent and < NZ$16.

Thanks!! Seems the 24/28 - 70 is a handy focal length alot of people use on their travels along with the UWA! Cant wait to see SOME of the 70gb of photos

Thanks stubbsy, I know that may have taken a while

[stubbsy]

No worries Kris - For me the 28-70 was a great range. Sometimes I'd have liked a little more zoom and sometimes a little more width without the need to change lenses, but it did fantastically well overall. Of course being f2.8 was a big factor in it's use too since I gave preference to it when the light was bad (eg Milford Sound).

FWIW Here's our rough itinerary:

Day 1 - 8 February 2007: Wellington

Day 2 - 9 February 2007: Paraparaumu, Waikanae, Otaki, Levin, Shannon, Palmerston North

Day 3 - 10 February 2007:Note: Speedway In Palmerston North

Day 4 - 11 February 2007: Bulls, Wanganui, Hawera, Eltham, Stratford, Taumarunui, National Park

Day 5 - 12 February 2007: Taupo, Rotorua

Days 6 & 7 - 13 & 14 February 2007: Lake Rotorua

Day 8 - 15 February 2007: Taupo

Day 9 - 16 February 2007: Napier, Hastings, Havelock North, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Dannevirke, Woodville, Palmerston North

Days 10 & 11 - 17 & 18 February 2007: Palmerston North

Day 12 - 19 February 2007: Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Carterton, Featherston, Martinborough, Lower Hutt, Wellington

Day 13 - 20 February 2007: Wellington then ferry to South Island, Picton, Blenheim, Westport, Punakaiki

Day 14 - 21 February 2007: Greymouth, Hokitika, Franz Josef

Day 15 - 22 February 2007: Franz Josef & Fox Glaciers, Lake Matheson

Day 16 - 23 February 2007: Haast, Wanaka, Queenstown

Day 17 - 24 February 2007: Shotover Jet boat ride, Te Anau

Day 18 - 25 February 2007: Te Anau to Milford Sound & return coach + ferry

Day 19 - 26 February 2007: Cromwell, Omarama, Twizel, Mt Cook Village, Lake Tekapo

Day 20 - 27 February 2007: Ashburton, Christchurch

Day 21 - 28 February 2007: Christchurch

And for those contemplating an NZ trip the Travel Planner function at the NZ tourism site is fantastic - I used it to prepare the entire final itinerary once Leon had worked the first draft out and it worked out things like driving distances and times.

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

AShburton! wtf possed u to go there? i Lived in timaru since i was born untill 3years ago and ashburton is the WEES stop on the way to CHCH lol nothing more!

[jberth1]

yep - getting up at 01:30 to catch the flight must have been rough...

any shots to show yet, or are we waiting on the next batch of graphs
?....

I'm amazed the glaciers are still there when you here all the talk about Global Warming - I'm sure glad I had a chance to hike across them a few years back.

Did you get out to the caves at all ?

Can't wait to see your Lake Tekapo shots - that really is such a photogenic place....

Cheers

Justin

[Glen]

Stubbsy, I am genuinely impressed, that is a real photographic tour. I just worked the numbers out, that is 316 a day or if based on 12 hours of actual photography a day (taking out food time, toilet, shower, sleep, etc), that is 26 photos an hour. Quite amazing. Cant wait to see the highlights.

[Yi-P]

Sounds like we got plenty of pages for the upcoming Chimp editions

Looking forward to it

[Wocka]

Crap I might be in trouble.

I leave for the UK tomorrow ( for 3 weeks ) with only 2 x 1GB + 1 x 4GB cards. In my PSD I have a 20GB HDD and a spare 12GB HDD in the bag. Total of about 36GB once you format the HDD's.

I might have to find a backpackers to burn the DVD if I'm as trigger happy as Stubbsy. Which isn't hard when your shooting digital.

Can't wait to see some of the pics.

Cheers

[Alpha_7]

Your aren't shooting with the D2x either Wocka, so you'll get a bit of extra mileage per GB of storage.

[Wocka]

Craig,

Your right I average about 8MB per pic RAW. So 36Gb / 8MB = 4608 pics.

[stubbsy]

Ashburton was just a waypoint

And the last of the graphs for a while. I used the Exposure Plotprogram to analyse my first 10 days pics (later I'll do all 21). Below are graphs showing an overview of my shots. You can see a lot was shot at 70mm and a lot at f 8 which is not unsurpirising given the lenses I had with me (10.5 DX fisheye, 12-24 DX, 28-70 f2.8 and 70-200 VR f2.8 ). Now I'm off to process some pics.

[Geoff]

Peter, u would have to be THE most organised (and anal ) person I've ever known. Great info though all the same. Now process some pics so we can see your work!

[sirhc55]

One has to ask oneself - is Peter a nerd or a photographer The answer: a PhotNerd - a new word has been derived from an esteemed moderator

[Geoff]

[Kris]

Wow you took the 70-200 VR! How heavy was your bag? Im still deciding what lens to take on my 3month EU trip in May

[radar]

Interesting tool, Exposure Plot, you used Peter, thanks for the link.

With shooting a lot at 70mm, does that mean the 28-70 is a bit "short"? I guess an 18-200 with a constant f2.8 would be nice, if you would not mind the weight it would have to be

Now I'll have to put my photos through Exposure Plot and see what lens I can next justify to the finance controller

Cheers,

André

[Geoff]

Looks like Bel and I are off to NZ too in April for around 10-11 days. I will be taking the 70-200VR I think

We will be hiring a campervan and that will be our accomodation and transport so not too worried about weight etc.

[MCWB]

Geoff, check the price of campervan hire vs car hire + motel accommodation: when Gladys and I went in December there wasn't much difference beteween the two! I'm not sure which you prefer, but it's another option anyway.

Really looking forward to your shots Peter, I still haven't PP'd mine from December!

[jberth1]

stop spending so much time making graphs, and....

Show us the Photos Son !!!!

Cheers

Justin

[Aussie Dave]

All I can say Stubbsy is thank god you have iMatch to catalogue all those images (and the nouse to use it) !

Looking forward to the 1,659 threads of your image posts (remember, only 4 images per post)

[stubbsy]

stop spending so much time making graphs, and....

Show us the Photos Son !!!!

I can take a hint (eventually) so I've posted a quick sampler HERE

[Matt. K]

Looks like Stubbsy is back. Looks like he missed his computer while he was away.

[Vodka]

Wow! 6600 shots! And I thought I had taken a lot during my trip in December. Then again, I was busy doing silly things like this...

[rooboy]

Vodka, you should put that pic up in C&C - it's amazing! Great shot.

[Vodka]

Vodka, you should put that pic up in C&C - it's amazing! Great shot.

Thanks - but I can't take the credit for it! It was actually a fluke shot taken by my (non camera geek) wife with the D80 set to continous mode. Yes, that's me in the photo.

Amazing experience - will be doing the bigger jumps next time I'm in Queenstown.

[rooboy]

Thanks - but I can't take the credit for it! It was actually a fluke shot taken by my (non camera geek) wife with the D80 set to continous mode. Yes, that's me in the photo.

Amazing experience - will be doing the bigger jumps next time I'm in Queenstown.

Who cares who/how it was taken - it is an incredible photograph. I reckon the best sports shooters in the world would have trouble shooting a bungee jump (acceleration of 9.8m per second per second is well beyond any normal sport). Yes it was a fluke, but an amazing fluke that should be shown widely.

Congrats to you for jumping, and your wife for shooting so well