Your Worse Photographic Habit
Feb 15, 2018 10:45:11 #
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
Not being able to cull! Although it can be good. I took thousands of Kodachrome slides in my youth and threw none away. Later I bought a dedicated slide scanner and scanned the usable ones into Tiffs and found that some most photographers would have thrown away can now be post processed into very nice shots.
Feb 15, 2018 11:25:04 #
My worse habit is not taking enough time to work a scene. Every landscape video I have watched mentions working the scene by moving your feet several feet in each direction, adjust your tripod higher and lower, getting closer, etc. I am always thinking that this great light and this cloud formation will only last a few minutes and if I work this scene to much in the early morning light it will be lunch time before I have totally worked the scene.
Feb 15, 2018 11:28:29 #
Grant Payne wrote:
Taking my wife with me on location I'm always hearing ..'Have you taken enough pictures yet?..I want to go home!
Feb 15, 2018 11:32:04 #
Feb 15, 2018 11:43:00 #
Mine is chimping after each shot. I haven’t learned to trust my talent and the camera’s ability.
Feb 15, 2018 11:51:44 #
Oh I wish I could nail it down to just one!
I've been told to take the rock out of my shoe when I shoot buildings--you guessed it, crooked horizons. I've shot a few ducks that should be pouring out one side of the frame, too.
Another is not noticing that a shot is too wide and straight lines have begun to curve or collapse inward. It can be ugly to try to correct.
Not returning to my neutral setting before shooting birds is the culprit for blown out or blurry shots of birds in flight--I shoot manual exposures because of the wild variations in light while shooting birds, and if you don't go to an acceptable starting point and work from there, you find yourself caught way off--sort of like in tennis when your opponent catches you in the corner of the court.
Yup--camera along, media attached to the computer at home. Ditto with the battery on the charger. Or the spare battery on the charger. Ugh--I have done them all.
I've been told to take the rock out of my shoe when I shoot buildings--you guessed it, crooked horizons. I've shot a few ducks that should be pouring out one side of the frame, too.
Another is not noticing that a shot is too wide and straight lines have begun to curve or collapse inward. It can be ugly to try to correct.
Not returning to my neutral setting before shooting birds is the culprit for blown out or blurry shots of birds in flight--I shoot manual exposures because of the wild variations in light while shooting birds, and if you don't go to an acceptable starting point and work from there, you find yourself caught way off--sort of like in tennis when your opponent catches you in the corner of the court.
Yup--camera along, media attached to the computer at home. Ditto with the battery on the charger. Or the spare battery on the charger. Ugh--I have done them all.
Feb 15, 2018 11:52:36 #
Feb 15, 2018 12:02:31 #
Feb 15, 2018 12:02:45 #
OddJobber wrote:
Worse, worser, worsest?
Where does worserest fit in here?
My worserest habits include:
1) Not holding my camera level
2) Not taking time
3) Not looking at what the camera is focusing on
4) Not resetting the exposure and reshooting
5) Not getting the cropping right in the camera
Others too numerous to mention
Feb 15, 2018 12:29:23 #
GMCJim wrote:
I dont truly know if this is bad. I have been told i dont make people look at the camera but i am not taking posed portraits i like candid shots. Am I wrong?
NO! Keep it up, you catch people being themselves and *not* mugging for the camera! Hahaha, I like to tell the ladies who go "ugh" at a given shot; "...you woke up this morning, made yourself beautiful, walked out the door, and *this* (I then show 'em the LED screen...) is what we get!" Which usually evokes a laugh, and in processing I'm merciful, but that's the gist...it's what we're all seeing all the time, so live with it!
Feb 15, 2018 12:32:24 #
...and in the spirit of the OP; going off and not checking that I've left my *indoor* settings active when I walk outside. Gotta say, I'm getting better at it, but it usually takes a "chimp" and then it's scramble!
Feb 15, 2018 12:39:40 #
Feb 15, 2018 12:53:23 #
kdogg
Loc: Gallipolis Ferry WV
Ditto for me. Have thousands of slides half of which should have been dumped years ago.
tomad wrote:
Not being able to cull! Although it can be good. I took thousands of Kodachrome slides in my youth and threw none away. Later I bought a dedicated slide scanner and scanned the usable ones into Tiffs and found that some most photographers would have thrown away can now be post processed into very nice shots.
Feb 15, 2018 12:57:14 #
Feb 15, 2018 12:57:50 #
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