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Who Is More Fit, Photographers Or Editors?

Jan 1, 2013 by Udi Tirosh Leave a Comment

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I think it is a good question. On one hand, photographers, move, change lenses, operate strobes, look for different POV. On the other hand, editors really pump up some brain muscle which is known to burn more calories than sitting idle. I thought it was kinda like that research about bus drivers vs. conductors by Jeremy Morris. That research concluded that bus drivers are more prone to heart attacks thatn conductors since they move less during the working hours. (of course, if I wanted to stay true to that research this post would have been titled Who Is More Prone To Get A Heart Attack? – but… No drama today)

Who Is More Fit, Photographers Or Editors?

There were two ways to approach this question. The more methodical way of comparing 1000 different photographers vs. 1000 different editors. Or look at one photographer who spends a lot of time shooting, and then a lot of time editing.

Luckily Benjamin Von Wong shared an interesting chart. The chart compares the output of Ben’s Nike Fuel Band over 19 days of activity. If you are not familiar with Nike Fuel, it is a bracelet that tracks the amount of calories you burn every day. (Yea, yea, I know N=1 is hardly a valid testing group, but for the sake of argument, go with me on that one).

On the first 13 days, Ben was shooting various projects back to back. Managing teams, moving on location, setting up and tearing down and actually taking pictures. This is where you see the high green lines.

On the next 6 days after Ben came back from the shoot and was sitting at a computer, editing pictures, doing mail work etc. Those are low yellow and red lines on the right.

Here is my take of the data, If you are editing pictures, you need to get another form of exercise.

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About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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