Archive for the 'Polls' Category

Share your funny story

May 14th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

Not exactly a poll but I would like to hear your funny stories ! You know those weird things people tend to tell you when they see you carrying your gear ?

Stuff like “Oh, so that’s your camera !! no wonder you take such great pictures”, or even “Do you use this lens to spy on your neighbors or what ?”

well both of these happened to me, let’s hear yours !

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How do you name your pictures ?

April 16th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

This was intended to be a poll but honestly I wasn’t able to figure out the answers I would put so I will try it as a discussion.

I am interested to know how do you name your pictures ! I know for instance some people call a picture depending on the location it was taken at, others with a serial number etc…

I personally tend to give a unique name to each picture just like a child would do with a him favorite toy, I feel it is much more “personal”! Names I choose are usually out of my state of mind when I was shooting or post processing.

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35% of photographers have more than 5 filters ! [Poll results]

March 31st, 2008 by Antoine Khater

When I asked you “how many filters do you have?” I was pretty sure the majority will fall in the “3 to 4″ range but how wrong I was !

What is interesting is the repartition of votes, if 40% of photographers have only 1 or 2 filters 35% have 5 or more and only 11% have none.

I was also surprised to read in the comments that many have filters but don’t even acutally use them

Here are the full results out of 110 votes for this poll

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Right eyed or left eyed ?

March 26th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

Photo by oberazzi

You should have seen that youtube video by now since it has been on a lot of photography blogs that I read.
For some reason that video reminded me that I am left-eyed / right handed.
I would be interested to know about you

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More than 32% of photographers prefer to fix it later [Poll Results]

March 12th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

A few weeks ago I have asked you if you use Auto or Custom white balance ?. The poll got just under 150 votes 41% of which were for Auto White balance and 42 votes for “Shoot RAW worry about white balance later”.
The results were as follows

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How many filters do you have ? [Poll]

March 6th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

Photo by oberazzi

Since I’ve been writing about filters lately, I was wondering how many filters do you guys have in your bags!
For me I have 5 9: 3 Neutral Density filters, 2 Circular Polarizers, 4 UV filters used for lens protection .

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67% prefer to shoot alone [Poll Results]

February 22nd, 2008 by Antoine Khater

Here are the results of last week’s poll and , although I was suspecting that the majority might prefer to take pictures alone, I was not expecting a 67% result.

Me? well just like Udi I prefer to shoot with my wife but she gets too quickly bored of waiting for me !

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Do you use Auto or Custom white balance ? [Poll]

February 20th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

Photo by oberazzi

I’ve recently got in my inbox a question about White Balance that I haven’t had the chance to answer yet. However it got me thinking that I have my camera set to Auto White balance 90% and the other 10% of the time it is custom white balance taken from a Grey card. No matter how hard I try I don’t remember ever using the preset white balance modes of my camera like “Shades”, “Tungsten” etc…

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49% prefer to play it safe ! [Poll Results]

February 14th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

I was surprised by the poll results of last week’s question “Do you put all your eggs in one basket ?“. Although I was not exactly expecting one specific answer to win over the other, I did not expect either a 50/50 situation.

I also had some added answers

  • 1 to 2 gig max: I considered this as small cards
  • 100-200 shots per card: This went to small cards too
  • A few big cards and older smaller cards: I added this one to Few big cards

Results were as follows

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Are you a lonesome photographer? [Poll]

February 13th, 2008 by Antoine Khater

Photo by oberazzi

I am curious to know if you are the type of person that thinks “the more the merrier” or do you prefer to go alone with you gear for shooting?
So what do you prefer ?

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