The Mistakes You Made At The Beginning, That You No Longer Do?
Apr 21, 2019 10:34:09 #
Lesson learned, shooting travel shots from inside busses, cars and helicopters through the closed windows. Even with polarizing filters, one gets weird reflections and never very sharp images. Glass windows have all kinds of reflections that are not obvious when shooting because you are quickly trying to capture something while on the move. If I can have an open window then I shoot otherwise camera stays in bag.
Apr 21, 2019 11:06:25 #
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?
Using hot developer to process a friend’s roll of film. The emulsion slid right off the base... (I was 10 years old... I used an an accurate thermometer and a water tempering tray for the rest of my darkroom days...)
Apr 21, 2019 11:09:59 #
burkphoto wrote:
Using hot developer to process a friend’s roll of film. The emulsion slid right off the base... (I was 10 years old... I used an an accurate thermometer and a water tempering tray for the rest of my darkroom days...)
Little warm, eh?
Apr 21, 2019 11:12:44 #
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?
Shooting in AUTO for years without bothering to really learn how marvelous my DSLR camera(s) can be.
Apr 21, 2019 11:25:49 #
davesit
Loc: Media, PA
fotobyferg wrote:
Not paying attention to leveling the horizon.
I still do it! :)
Apr 21, 2019 11:27:17 #
Picture Taker
Loc: Michigan Thumb
WE get side tracked, you shout not shoot Aperture for birding but the advice to shoot Raw will not help.
Photography is always a learning experience. But speed is what is important in birding and F stop is important in landscape and so on and so on depending what the subject is. That is learning in photography. We all make mistakes and that is learning.. Bet you won't do it again. Have fun.
Photography is always a learning experience. But speed is what is important in birding and F stop is important in landscape and so on and so on depending what the subject is. That is learning in photography. We all make mistakes and that is learning.. Bet you won't do it again. Have fun.
Apr 21, 2019 11:38:36 #
Shooting JPGs when I first started using my first Digital camera, a Kodak "bridge" camera. And I also did so after I got my first DSLR (2009) for about a year. Once I started taking classes to learn digital photography after doing film since 1977, I knew the value of RAW for the way I shoot. If I could only get all my old good ones done over via RAW. 
Not to say I have not reprocessed many of those now that I know Ps and made some improvement. But what could have been. Also lets see, my first digital camera was 6MP, then a 7.1MP, finally a 14MP DSLR. But those all got processed as / from camera JPEGs.
Once I got into a class I started using my 14MP DSLR on RAW using ACR and Ps CS6, and have stayed with that since, and also now have 16MP and 24MP APS-C cameras. So like probably / hopefully most UHH members I go 14-bit Camera RAW > 16-bit ACR/Ps PSD or TIFF at 300ppi. Luckily some of my old jpgs were really good to begin with.
p.s., some of my instructors did / do shoot jpegs because they are either photojournalists or portrait / wedding photographers who shoot way too much to process a lot. I'm more in the fine arts end of photography and spend a lot of time on a few images at a time.
Not to say I have not reprocessed many of those now that I know Ps and made some improvement. But what could have been. Also lets see, my first digital camera was 6MP, then a 7.1MP, finally a 14MP DSLR. But those all got processed as / from camera JPEGs. Once I got into a class I started using my 14MP DSLR on RAW using ACR and Ps CS6, and have stayed with that since, and also now have 16MP and 24MP APS-C cameras. So like probably / hopefully most UHH members I go 14-bit Camera RAW > 16-bit ACR/Ps PSD or TIFF at 300ppi. Luckily some of my old jpgs were really good to begin with.
p.s., some of my instructors did / do shoot jpegs because they are either photojournalists or portrait / wedding photographers who shoot way too much to process a lot. I'm more in the fine arts end of photography and spend a lot of time on a few images at a time.
Apr 21, 2019 11:41:46 #
Picture Taker
Loc: Michigan Thumb
His mistake was shooting Aperture having nothing to do with RAW vs JPG
I advise every one to shoot RAW and JPG and get back to helping him
I advise every one to shoot RAW and JPG and get back to helping him
Apr 21, 2019 11:44:37 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I could agree with that.
Jerry
Excuse my ignorance but what does BBF mean?
Steve
Apr 21, 2019 11:46:48 #
My biggest mistake was picking up that black box with all those buttons, levers, swivels, and that glassy thing on the front in the first place. Sigh.
Apr 21, 2019 11:49:08 #
Chris981 wrote:
Lesson learned, shooting travel shots from inside buses, cars and helicopters through the closed windows. Even with polarizing filters, one gets weird reflections and never very sharp images. Glass windows have all kinds of reflections that are not obvious when shooting because you are quickly trying to capture something while on the move. If I can have an open window then I shoot otherwise camera stays in bag.
That is all probably true, but I can shoot thru glass or plastic at an aquarium. You just need to put a rubber lens shade / hood on and collapsed press that up against the glass / plastic. The biggest issues then are gunk on the surface or the "glass" and that the focal length of the lens acts differently though the water. For example, I've found that at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA a 50mm prime lens on a APS-C camera is too long, and so 35mm to 24mm work better. I think the first time I used a 28mm.
Apr 21, 2019 11:50:38 #
Caldian wrote:
Jerry
Excuse my ignorance but what does BBF mean?
Steve
Excuse my ignorance but what does BBF mean?
Steve
Back Button Focus. Not my thing though.
note BIF means Bird(s) In Flight.
Apr 21, 2019 12:00:50 #
Apr 21, 2019 12:04:36 #
boberic wrote:
Opening the back of the camera before rewinding the film. Not any more
That happened to me while shooting a wedding with a new camera. Interestingly, I caught my mistake almost instantly, slammed the back closed and lost only a few images.
Apr 21, 2019 12:08:55 #
Picture Taker wrote:
His mistake was shooting Aperture having nothing to do with RAW vs JPG
I advise every one to shoot RAW and JPG and get back to helping him
I advise every one to shoot RAW and JPG and get back to helping him
You mean the OP? Read his heading, "The Mistakes You Made At The Beginning, That You No Longer Do?" He was not asking for advise but asking for our stories and suggestions on many issues with digital photography that we learn about and changed.
I also might add, entering a thread from the middle might get you side-tracked as well.
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