do you remember every photograph you have taken ?

[jnantz]

it is kind of like when i listen to a record on a turntable
and it brings me back to the first time i heard the song / album ...

when i make portraits, i interview the person, when i photograph a place
i am there for a specific reason and when i have the negative or positive photographic print ( or scan )
i hear the interview, remember the "place" ... et C.

obviously with a large format camera it takes a little while longer to set up, compose, wait around do the dance
so there is more time to have "stuff" sink - in, ... but this is the same with other smaller formats too ...

do you remember each exposure ?

[vinny]

Yes, and that's a part of the whole experience for me.

[gene LaFord]

Almost all, but every now and then I look at a neg and wonder how the heck that image got on film!


gene

[Heroique]

As the psychologists say, the greater the muscular and emotional involvement, the stronger and longer-lasting the memory.

And for me, when I say "muscular involvement," I mostly mean camera movements – not the burden I had to carry, nor the hike I had to make!

A related issue – how to return to the place of a landscape shot (esp. if it was off trail) is, I think, more difficult to remember than most LFers realize.

[Luis-F-S]

Every last one of the last 400,000 or so. The first million, sorry, I just don't remember..........L

[Tin Can]

Going through my 50's to 90's negs while scanning, I recalled exactly the circumstance of each 35 mm exposure, but not the settings. I rarely take notes...I lose them.

All my scanned and digital in the database are remembered, but have poor metadata tagging. See above.

When I was recently given 35 year old Polaroids from my deceased wife's estate. I remembered them immediately and was overjoyed to see my old image friends.

[David Karp]

Yes. For many, many of them anyway. I remember clearly 100% of those I print. Without going back and looking at all of them, I believe this is true even for photos I printed back in high school and Jr. high.

[mdarnton]

Back when I was an active newspaper photog, I remembered everything--lens, exposure, the people and situation, surroundings, etc. But going through those negs 35 years later, I have forgotten most of that, and some of the photos I find I can't remember shooting at all, not even with the pictures to jog my memory. Things I am shooting currently, I don't remember just about everything. I associate all of this with being 35 years older, and with having a job at the time where this was important. Back then I never took notes at all as I shot--I remembered names, phone numbers, everything. These days, not so much.

[Mark Sawyer]

Most I'm trying to forget...

[Heroique]

BTW, the "no" poll option is pulling way, way ahead of the others.

This must reflect the average age around here (about 49 years).

Any younger, "yes" would do better; any older, "I don't know" would do better.