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Mar 16, 2016 08:05:01   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
JoelS wrote:
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.
It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)

Just remove the noise you probably will be happy with the pictures

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Mar 16, 2016 08:48:24   #
photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA
 
There was the time I took waterfall shots (long exposure on a tripod) and forgot to turn off the image stabilization on my wide angle zoom. I turned off the IS permanently!

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Mar 16, 2016 09:11:44   #
OviedoPhotos
 
thanks for the reminder to check one part of the triangle settings.

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Mar 16, 2016 09:15:40   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
Wingpilot wrote:
And there's always tomorrow to try the morning light again.


Yeah, it is weirdly predictable. You can almost set you sundial by it. :roll:

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Mar 16, 2016 09:27:20   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
JoelS wrote:
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.
It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)

Learning is good.

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Mar 16, 2016 10:14:40   #
ggttc Loc: TN
 
Well, stuff like that never happens to anyone...you should be humbled...

Went out to shoot Osprey with my d7100...both sd slots were empty...

Now my wife shoots a d810 with a CF and a SD...Ask her for her SD card and have her laughing for a week...?

Tough choice.

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Mar 16, 2016 12:00:54   #
twillsol Loc: St. Louis, MO
 
JoelS wrote:
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.
It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)


That happened to me one time; I have never used auto ISO since.

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Mar 16, 2016 12:56:22   #
MtnMan Loc: ID
 
JoelS wrote:
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.
It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)


Although I don't use auto ISO much for this reason you'd likely be OK with ISO 1600 on a current generation camera. They have really improved high ISO performance in recent years.

Barring that you can likely set high ISO noise reduction higher.

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Mar 16, 2016 13:20:13   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
twillsol wrote:
That happened to me one time; I have never used auto ISO since.

Yes, that can produce strange results. I leave it on 100 unless I have to change it.

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Mar 16, 2016 13:33:33   #
SharpShooter Loc: NorCal
 
JoelS wrote:
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.
It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)

Joel, did you never learn to chimp?!?!?! :lol:
SS

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Mar 16, 2016 15:02:39   #
fantom Loc: Colorado
 
JoelS wrote:
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.
It seems like every time I pick up my camera, I am... (show quote)


You are not the Lone Ranger when it comes to doing stuff like this. You are however building an experience base that will possibly prevent you from doing these things in the future.

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Mar 18, 2016 00:38:26   #
JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama
 
SharpShooter wrote:
Joel, did you never learn to chimp?!?!?! :lol:
SS


I did chimp but wasn't paying attention to ISO, just to see if my exposure was not blown out....

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Mar 18, 2016 00:39:05   #
JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama
 
fantom wrote:
You are not the Lone Ranger when it comes to doing stuff like this. You are however building an experience base that will possibly prevent you from doing these things in the future.


:thumbup: :thumbup:

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Mar 18, 2016 00:44:35   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
SharpShooter wrote:
Joel, did you never learn to chimp?!?!?! :lol:
SS


How would that help? Grain in pics would not be very easy to see on the LCD. Or am I missing something?

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Mar 18, 2016 07:30:27   #
Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI
 
JD750 wrote:
How would that help? Grain in pics would not be very easy to see on the LCD. Or am I missing something?


Requires you to zoom in a bit to see the detials

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