Done that several times. I added a check of camera settings to my preparations. Then later, I set the camera to f/8, 125 sec, and Auto ISO as a starting exposure.
PHRubin wrote:
I had taken a few shots of my dog. She is a dark red/brown and was on a white floor. The shots were coming out too dark, so I pushed the EC up to +3. That worked fine.
The next time I used that camera I was taking shots of leaves on my lawn and couldn't understand why only auto gave the right exposure, any other mode was horribly overexposed... UNTIL, finally, the epiphany! DUHH - I still had the +3 EC set!