Another lesson learned: It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am learning a new lesson. Today, I got up before daylight to get the good light. I set my camera (Nikon D80) to...

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Mar 15, 2016 22:00:03 #

JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama

It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am learning a new lesson. Today, I got up before daylight to get the good light. I set my camera (Nikon D80) to manual mode which i set the aperture and shutter according to the light. What I forgot to do was to take the ISO off of automatic. I was shooting on a 10-20mm at 125th at f8 in raw. Everything was great till I got home and noticed the pics were grainy. When I checked the ISO it was 1600. It had automatically cranked up the ISO to make up for the amount of light. Needless to say I was extremely disappointed at myself for not noticing that until I got home. With all that said, I took the ISO setting off automatic. I went out to re-shoot the pics late this afternoon and got better results.

Mar 15, 2016 22:00:57 #

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

It's good to learn.

Mar 15, 2016 22:20:04 #

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

And there's always tomorrow to try the morning light again.

Mar 15, 2016 22:20:56 #

Bill_de Loc: US

Too much automation makes everything more complicated, unless you give yourself up to it totally.

My very first taste of auto, was auto aperture, many years ago. It works for me, so every camera I have owned since, including my latest D4s, is set to auto aperture. Anything beyond that would probably confuse me.

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Mar 15, 2016 22:26:47 #

JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama

:thumbup: you bet Richard!

Mar 15, 2016 22:27:27 #

JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama

Wingpilot wrote:

And there's always tomorrow to try the morning light again.

I am going to try it again.... :thumbup:

Mar 15, 2016 22:28:10 #

JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama

Bill_de wrote:

:thumbup: I know the feeling!

Mar 15, 2016 23:05:35 #

JD750 Loc: SoCal

JoelS wrote:

It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)

That has never happend to me. But.... I once shot two days of vacation using the wrong white balance. Had flash sync set wrong in the studio. Yes back curtain on images. Had +3ev dialed in on my P100 at BM. Ruined a lot of pics then I went old school, manual, and sunny 16 rule, for a full day before my friend suggested "maybe check the manual to see if it says anything about that problem?" DOH!

Stuff happens.

But I haven't repeated any of those things. Likely you won't either.

Mar 16, 2016 00:03:49 #

anotherview Loc: California

Photography functions as a craft. We learn it by doing it.

I've lost count of how many times I've left the ISO on Auto or another setting different from what it should have been.

Now I take more time to check everything first. Sometimes, I will do the check after finishing my photography for the day.

JoelS wrote:

It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)

Mar 16, 2016 00:15:41 #

mcveed Loc: Kelowna, British Columbia (between trips)

I learned long ago to take a test shot at the beginning of any photo taking session. Take a shot of anything then review it on the LCD and go through all the screens. The auto ISO would have shown up like a flag. The other idea is to never use auto ISO.

Mar 16, 2016 05:06:54 #