The Mistakes You Made At The Beginning, That You No Longer Do?
Apr 21, 2019 08:04:58 #
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?
Yes funny you mentioned A mode for BIF - I got this stack of "tip" cards from a UK mag that suggests only A mode for all wildlife and BIF shooting! I would think for any action photography S or M mode is the choice and that's what I use now, sometimes with Auto ISO. Of course for still life or posed shots A mode would work fine too. I tend to use M mode now most frequently - pre-meter to get in the ball park and adjust the RAW with LR....speaking of which...
I regret not using RAW mode since the beginning since some of my early JPGs were great shots but in RAW I would have had more latitude.
Apr 21, 2019 08:05:38 #
R.G. wrote:
Fixing my attention on the subject and not paying enough attention to the foreground, background and setting.
Yes, agreed.
Apr 21, 2019 08:06:38 #
LarryFB wrote:
I was about to reply with almost the same opening comment. Except, with me it was more like over 60 years ago!
Apr 21, 2019 08:34:21 #
LarryFitz
Loc: Beacon NY
I would call any of the steps I took mistakes, I call them learning opportunities, I learned about using raw, BBF, when to use Aperture mode vs Shutter priority vs manual vs auto.
Apr 21, 2019 09:11:36 #
I not only used but continue to use Aperture Priority for birds in flight.
Apr 21, 2019 09:18:25 #
My biggest mistake was answering "Yes" to that question, "Do these slacks make my butt look big?"
Apr 21, 2019 09:30:30 #
camerapapi wrote:
I not only used but continue to use Aperture Priority for birds in flight.
Yeah, for me shooting in aperture priority goes back to when lenses had aperture rings. Even if I wanted a particular shutter speed it was always easier to get there by using the aperture ring than fiddling with the shutter speed dial. In digital cameras I don’t see much functional difference in using A or S mode. Either way I turn a wheel and the shutter speed and aperture both change and they’re displayed right next to each other. I can turn the wheel until I get to an aperture I want or until I get a shutter speed I want, depending on the scene. The only reason to choose one over the other is if you’re planning on taking a series of photos at a particular aperture or shutter speed.
Apr 21, 2019 09:40:08 #
Apr 21, 2019 09:55:13 #
Eric2018 wrote:
Trying too hard to avoid making mistakes. We learn to walk, eventually to run, by falling down.
BINGO
Great reply
Swede
Apr 21, 2019 09:55:23 #
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?
Listening to everyone else tell me how to photograph the things I wanted to photograph. I found my own way simply by experimenting. But that also was back in the days when it was several miles to the library, there was no Internet, and Grandma & Granddad, and well as all my friends, didn't have a camera or a clue.
Apr 21, 2019 10:04:01 #
Hoarding images. How many not great photos do I have of waves crashing on rocks? Or mountains? Or fall colors? I'm trying to downsize, but it's hard to choose which of my children to toss.
Apr 21, 2019 10:09:12 #
Dikdik
Loc: Winnipeg, Canada
About 50 years ago, my very first spool of film with my Nikon F2, I didn't take the leader into the slot far enough and it never engaged, and the film never advanced out of the can. After about 50 shots (I was really impressed about how many pictures I had taken from a 36 exposure can), I decided to rewind the film and promply wound the leader into the can... no pictures. One of the few times I felt 'really stupid'. Don't tell anyone... I still have the old F2 and a pile of lenses.
Dik
Dik
Apr 21, 2019 10:12:37 #
BlueMorel wrote:
Hoarding images. How many not great photos do I have of waves crashing on rocks? Or mountains? Or fall colors? I'm trying to downsize, but it's hard to choose which of my children to toss.
Haha, yup, they're all different, aren't they?
Apr 21, 2019 10:12:44 #
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?
What I regret right at this moment is all the HDR I did several years ago. Now I'm spending a lot of time going back and deleting them because they look awful and deleting all but one of the multiple images. I should have spent more time learning to get the most from the RAW images I was taking.
Apr 21, 2019 10:17:00 #
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