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I've accidentally turned on bracketing on my D90 a few times when shootimg in studio. First time I thought I had a shutter problem until I realised every other shot was close to twice my sync speed and every second frame included a nice picture of the back of the shutter in part of the image  Apr 13 14 05:32 am Link fullmetalphotographer wrote: It's always a good idea to charge the rechargeable batteries for your Nikon motordrives the evening before. Especially if you are going to have a 16+ hours job "irgendwo in der Pampa" (German for "Bumfuck, Indiana"). Interchangeable parts aren't Photographic equipment is a living creature with an immortal soul. If it fits yesterday that does not mean it will fit tomorrow... Weather never cooperates There is no such thing as "bad weather". There are only inappropriate clothing and incompliant creative concepts. Flashes will fail as soon as you need them There is no such thing as an over-designed flash power. And that one firefighter who climbed up to the roof 100 ft above you in the middle of a moonless night will be the only one in the whole firebrigade who wears a dark blue uniform. All other the guys of course were highly reflecting yellow and orange. When you drop a lens cap, the inside part always lands face down in the mud. What lens caps? *eek* Apr 13 14 05:57 am Link Oh .. did I ever tell you about the time we were doing an outdoors project and it was hot and humid ... Model was not to be wearing maekup as part of the imaging parameters ... Figured it would look good to have that water bead effect on the face and chest ... open water bottle, stream on face and hair .. all cooled off with water beading .. look at photos afterwards ... racoon eye underneath from smudging mascara .... Another lesson learned ... funny thing is that in framing a shot I "always" do a general frame and then look at everything that I can subtract from the image ... like power lines???? or at least know what I will have to subtract later on ... I sure missed this one ...still in training I guess.... Apr 13 14 06:37 am Link Yeah I hate it when I'm shooting with my studio strobes and I accidentally scroll my shutter to 250th and it catches the curtain. I hate that black band. Apr 13 14 06:51 pm Link AJScalzitti wrote: I usually do this, as well. I usually double-check my sh** as I'm prepping my gear before a shoot (which is twice a week at night or up to 4 times/day, depending), but I'm usually ontop of it. I tend to stick to certain ranges for certain types of shoots, and those ranges are similar on both of my main cameras. Apr 13 14 07:18 pm Link the very first shoot with my Nikon D70 i went to the big city and took some great shots but it turned out i was in small jpeg mode so i didn't get very much resolution. darn. when i'm shooting a wedding if there's any down time i'll be reviewing my settings just to be on the safe side. and it can get complicated when you start using the custom banks, not to mention switching between Av and M. Apr 14 14 11:12 am Link I hate it when that happens. I had shot a wedding the evening before I did this shoot and didn't realize until part way through that I had left the ISO on 800 (which was really the upper limit for that body).  2008 0817 Dana Sue 023-Edit by geeman39, on Flickr Apr 14 14 11:39 am Link canon can retrofit the 5d2 with a locking mode dial. i had them do that on mine after it slipped while the bride was coming down the aisle. BlueMoonPics wrote: Apr 14 14 11:46 am Link clickman818 wrote: Ha, been there done that. On a Nikon D70...which has a tiny tiny tiny LCD screen...not a good way of detecting possible noise. Thankfully, I was just with friends and we were fooling around. Shooting with lighting was very very very new to me. Apr 14 14 02:44 pm Link we like it when you shoot a whole bunch with the lens cap on  no seriously, I do think its cute, everyone laughs and the shoot moves forward, no big whoop. Apr 14 14 02:53 pm Link I just thought of a switch I've accidentally flipped while on a shoot that really pissed me off! It was a complaint by some with the D3/D3s, and Nikon has corrected it on the D4. It's the focus-mode select lever, to the bottom-right directly beside the lens (if you're looking at the camera lens-closest). When swapping one lens to another, if a person didn't notice they could easily flip the switch. Many like me shoot AF-S, and depend on focus locking before the camera releases. When we accidentally switched to AF-C, we'd shoot & shoot thinking we were getting mostly captures that would be reasonably in-focus, only to load the pix up for processing and "WTF?!?!?"  My typical sharpness shooting concerts, AF-S:  The last time I screwed focus-mode and shot AF-C:  It's still acceptable by most, but I'm not crazy about it happening - and I feel like I performed poorer than I coulda Apr 14 14 03:38 pm Link ontherocks wrote: I didn't know this. Thanks! Apr 14 14 05:21 pm Link I had an older Olympus digital camera before I got a business license and started calling myself a professional. This camera had a really, really awesome feature to it: it could take two or three shots and hold them in memory if you didn't have an SD card inserted, but it wouldn't tell you anything was missing, so if you kept shooting, it would simply keep happily recording over the previous files until you stopped. I got home from a full day of shooting, tried to upload all the images to my computer, and after some time trying to figure out why only three images would upload, I invented whole new swear words, because the ones I knew after six years in the Navy were not sufficient to express my level of frustration and self-hate. Then I bought my first Canon SLR and had an "Office Space" moment on the old Olympus. It didn't solve the problem of the missing day of shooting, but it felt really good. Apr 14 14 11:21 pm Link Checklists, people. Checklists. Have one. Make it a habit to go over it before every shoot. Amazing how many simple mistakes that will resolve (lesson learned the hard way a long time ago). Apr 15 14 12:48 am Link i bought my brand new 70D in dubai, staying over at family. The next morning we got up before sunrise to do some serious offroading on rocky desert mountains, perfect opportunity for awesome sunrise shots of offroading... Forgot my battery in the charger Apr 15 14 12:50 am Link clickman818 wrote: I've done that before Apr 15 14 06:03 am Link We've all been there. In my earlier days I would ofter have my shutter speed too slow, like 1/30, and sure it looked pretty good on that small preview screen, I would get to my computer and they would be blurry like crazy ! Now I know to doublecheck my settings every now and then to make sure i didn't slip the setting wheel on my camera Apr 15 14 11:37 am Link i don't know what 'file 13' is. guess i'm more dumb. Apr 15 14 11:40 am Link In my regular full time work I'm a news photographer and I have to almost change the ISO and white balance every few minutes depending on where I am going from assignment to assignment or tracking a subject. What really sucks is if you forget to change that ISO when you go outside and that "moment" you caught is four+ stops overexposed because you forgot to change the ISO. RAW has saved my ass a few times in this situation but the colors can shift too much. At the same time I've never been one to use the "P" for professional camera mode, you know program. I only trust aperture priority for most of the stuff I do and still rarely use that. It is different when you aren't shooting several different things a day. I just try to always change settings as I'm going into my next situation or just remember what I was last set at. Keep it in the back of my head, like where you parked your car. Apr 15 14 11:53 am Link No offense meant but I think I've only done this for a few shots in the beginning and then very quickly realized it. I shoot on manual though and I generally know what my SS and F-stop are going to be at if I have my ISO at normal levels. I almost always shoot at F1.8 outside anyways, so most of the time if I don't have my ISO down to 100 I'm going to be over exposing everything. Plus I hate grainy photos so anything over 800 I almost instantly notice on my camera (I tend to zoom in to check focus and things like that catch my eye) All you can do is check and double check, make a note of it early on while you're doing your test shots and working on exposure. I also try to make sure if I crank my ISO up to something crazy to always turn it back down the moment I'm done to avoid any problems later. I do have a terrible habit of trying to take pictures without realizing my lens cap is on or getting shots I love that I later learn are not perfectly in focus :p Apr 15 14 01:38 pm Link |
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