Author Topic: Aaaaaaaagh! (Read 5336 times)

Bateleur · « **on:** October 31, 2006, 08:57 »

Last night I was messing about, trying to get a picture of a comet that is in the sky after sunset at the moment (Comet Swan, if you want to know, but not visible to the naked eye). I wasn't doing it with the idea of getting saleable pictures, but just for the challenge. And I turned my film speed up to ISO1600.

So ... guess what happened?

This morning I came across a big old Russian helicopter, lifting trees for planting into an inaccessible garden, all against a perfect blue sky.

Just as it had finished work I remembered I hadn't changed the film speed setting back down again

They're great shots, but noisy as hell and quite unsaleable.

I've learned a lesson. Always change your settings back again immediately you finish something. And check before you start shooting again. Check and double check.

Striker77s · « **Reply #1 on:** October 31, 2006, 09:48 »

I can't tell you how many times I have forgotten to change the ISO down after bumping it up. Canon refuses to implement the ISO in the viewfinder in the 30D series like it is on the 1 series and 5D. Many people want it because everyone makes that exact same mistake all the time. It would be real easy to catch if the ISO was displayed in the viewfinder.

Mark

GeoPappas · « **Reply #2 on:** October 31, 2006, 09:48 »

I can't count the # of times that this has happened to me. I feel for you...

dbvirago · « **Reply #3 on:** October 31, 2006, 10:24 »

Done that one many times. Another favorite. Frame and focus a moving subject, hit the shutter and hear the beep, beep of the timer. Excuse me, could you stop moving for 10 seconds?

CJPhoto · « **Reply #4 on:** October 31, 2006, 10:26 »

Have you got a 350D (the placement is known to be bad)

re iso, I now get into the habit of always putting the ISO back to 200 even if I may need to bump it up again. This was after using 1600 a few mornings in a row while on holiday.

FunkMaster5 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 31, 2006, 11:13 »

been there done that

why oh why isnt there a reset to defaults option on cameras

Keefo · « **Reply #6 on:** October 31, 2006, 13:39 »

Ugh. I also turn off autofocus for some shots, and forget to turn it back on when I'm done. That's not nearly as costly, since you can tell right away. But it sucks to miss a candid, spur of the moment shot, because of it -- my son blowing out candles at his 7th birthday party

chellyar · « **Reply #7 on:** October 31, 2006, 14:30 »

:-)..

Doing some studio shots at 1/200th F/11 and then leaving the camera in manual for the first 20 minutes of a sports event before noticing.... I got a couple of really great images, appart from being 5 or so stops under exposed..!

fintastique · « **Reply #8 on:** October 31, 2006, 14:48 »

been there done that not to mention setting it to TV to try not to over expose the sky and then taking a bunch of shots at a very fast shutter speed, though sometimes you get away with it. Any luck with the comet shot?

I tend to use the info screen on the Canon 350D with the thumbnail,histogram and details and check every few shots for exposure so I usually spot it.

Bateleur · « **Reply #9 on:** October 31, 2006, 16:34 »

Quote from: fintastique on October 31, 2006, 14:48

Any luck with the comet shot?

I got a sort of blurry blodge, at 300mm focal length, which at least showed that I was pointing the camera in the right direction, and the thing I'd been looking at through a small telescope was the comet.

I really need a motorised equatorial mount to get decent pictures (very low on my list of priorities).

fred1963 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 31, 2006, 18:04 »

I feel your pain. I've done everything listed. Also once when on vacation and shooting jpgs I had the WB set to indoor and shot in Maui for two days on the beach like that. Didn't save most of those miscolored shots.

Bateleur · « **Reply #11 on:** November 01, 2006, 01:27 »

Quote from: fred1963 on October 31, 2006, 18:04

Also once when on vacation and shooting jpgs I had the WB set to indoor and shot in Maui for two days on the beach like that. Didn't save most of those miscolored shots.

Yeah, I've done that with the WB too, but I use Nikon Capture as a first step in processing my images and the WB can be easily fixed.

Now if only they'd come up with something similar for putting the film speed back to what it should be.

madelaide · « **Reply #12 on:** November 01, 2006, 16:23 »

I tend to forget resetting WB too. I took some party photos once (table setting with cake and sweets) with the wrong WB setting and noticed it only after the cake was cut.

Regards,
Adelaide

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #13 on:** November 01, 2006, 19:17 »

Quote from: dbvirago on October 31, 2006, 10:24

Another favorite. Frame and focus .. hit the shutter and hear the beep, beep of the timer. Excuse me, could you stop moving for 10 seconds?

A classic!!!! If I had a dime for everytime I did that, I wouldn't need to sell on microstocks!! HA HA!! I could afford to hire someone to take pictures for me.... LOL

hospitalera · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2006, 19:32 »

WB... I took some inside shoots (nicely backlight wineglasses), then noticed that our semi-tame pheasant was settling decorativly close to a scarecrow in the garden... I sneaked out, crawled to get some close ups of him - in ghostly BLUE!!! I wish we could post pics hear, scaring photo...

leaf · « **Reply #15 on:** November 02, 2006, 02:20 »

a perfect case for RAW.

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Author Topic: Aaaaaaaagh! (Read 5336 times)

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