The Mistakes You Made At The Beginning, That You No Longer Do?
Apr 20, 2019 18:57:54 #
My biggest mistake was using the aperture mode while shooting birds in flight. Why did I use it? Because I was told that this was the best setting. Wrong!
What practice did you use that you now regret?
What practice did you use that you now regret?
Apr 20, 2019 19:00:57 #
Simply using Program mode on the first FX digital I owned. I abandoned that practice a short time after I started using the camera, but those first few weeks would have yielded far more images of better quality.
--Bob
--Bob
Feiertag wrote:
My biggest mistake was using the aperture mode while shooting birds in flight. Why did I use it? Because I was told that this was the best setting. Wrong!
What practice did you use that you now regret?
What practice did you use that you now regret?
Apr 20, 2019 19:08:52 #
Eric2018
Loc: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Trying too hard to avoid making mistakes. We learn to walk, eventually to run, by falling down.
Apr 20, 2019 19:17:36 #
Apr 20, 2019 19:26:39 #
Apr 20, 2019 19:31:36 #
Not realizing from the beginning the benefits of shooting in RAW and post-processing almost every image.
Apr 20, 2019 19:54:13 #
Mistakes I made in the beginning were not looking out for distracting elements in the photo. Now I scan around the edges of the frame and look closely at the background for distracting elements. I will move distracting elements if I can or compose the shot differently.
Apr 20, 2019 20:04:03 #
#1 Not estimating the subject disrtance properly before seting it on the lens.
#2 Not interpreting the exposure information that came with with the film when setting the aperture and shutter speed on the camera.
#2 Not interpreting the exposure information that came with with the film when setting the aperture and shutter speed on the camera.
Apr 20, 2019 20:21:04 #
CO wrote:
Mistakes I made in the beginning were not looking out for distracting elements in the photo. Now I scan around the edges of the frame and look closely at the background for distracting elements. I will move distracting elements if I can or compose the shot differently.
That was mine also. I never noticed all that litter on our beaches until the prints came out of the fixer.
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Apr 20, 2019 20:39:03 #
Not asking bridesmaids at weddings I was shooting back in the 1970s if they would be interested in modeling. Found out much later from some they weren't "flirting" with me - they were interested in more glamour type photos because I was the "professional" photographer but they were too shy to initiate the subject.
Apr 20, 2019 20:43:06 #
kskarma
Loc: Topeka, KS
When I first started in photography, a few times I did not get the film leader inserted fully and correctly into the take up spool!
I NEVER make that mistake now.....!!!
I NEVER make that mistake now.....!!!
Apr 20, 2019 20:46:34 #
kskarma wrote:
When I first started in photography, a few times I did not get the film leader inserted fully and correctly into the take up spool!
I NEVER make that mistake now.....!!!
I NEVER make that mistake now.....!!!
Apr 20, 2019 20:48:51 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Waiting to long before shooting in RAW and switching to BBF.
Don
Don
Yes to this. Ken Rockwell is wrong.
Andy
Apr 20, 2019 21:00:54 #
Opening the back of the camera before rewinding the film. Not any more
Apr 20, 2019 21:20:38 #
Geeze, I started almost 50 years ago.
I don't remember what I may have been doing wrong.
Recently? Separating (putting) RAW and JPEG files in their own directories. All are in the same directory now.
I don't remember what I may have been doing wrong.
Recently? Separating (putting) RAW and JPEG files in their own directories. All are in the same directory now.
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