I took pictures of a hot air balloon festival today, and a fireworks show immediately after. I took 548 shots before running out of memory, and thus missed the grand finale. I'm tempted to go buy a larger card, and use my current card as a backup, but I'm already shooting far faster than I can process the images.

I don't really want to shoot less, so this means that I need a better workflow, which in turn means that I need to stop trying to process all of my images by hand. I need to play with automatic conversion to jpg from Adobe Bridge, and also start trying to fine-tune the jpg output from my camera so that some images can stand with no editing whatsoever.

Most of the fireworks pictures did not come out well. Autofocus was losing lock and missing the timing on just about every shot I was taking, so I turned it off and tried it by hand, but then I started changing focal lengths and screwed that up, too. What I *should* have done, as soon as I realized that this was going to be one of those AF-ugly situations, was dive into the menus and set Custom Function 4 to move the AF to the AE lock button, and use the half-trigger point for AE lock only, and the latter wouldn't have really mattered because I was shooting in full manual and ignoring the light meter. This would have let me quickly try to find an AF point every time I changed focal lengths, without having the AF system go crazy on every shot. Oops. Just to remember for next time.

This is another function (along with mirror lockup) that I wish I could get to without hunting through the menu system.