An article in "Picture Correct", the Author: Marianne Stenger, echoes my thoughts about this topic that I have noticed. Newbies seem to be using thinking from film days and are not up on new camera technology. I don't know where they're getting their information but it's usually outdated.

The mistakes are:
1. USING A SHUTTER SPEED THAT’S TOO SLOW
2. CHOOSING THE WRONG FOCUS POINT
3. NOT SHOOTING IN HIGH ISO
4. ALWAYS SHOOTING AT WIDE APERTURES
5. USING IMAGE STABILIZATION WHILE USING A TRIPOD

If there had been a landscape photographer in attendance you would have heard a different point of view. In another post rehess recounted taking pictures of his daughters in a school play, in that situation using a wide aperture to isolate the girls would have resulted in images of them without context. I would venture to say if one of your local news photographers had been assigned to cover the play and did that, the editor would have had a fit. Isolation is the current "in fashion" trend, but there are many times when it is just wrong. A picture of an eagle against a clear blue sky is boring, include it's environment and the image tells a story.

Glad I found someone who actually understands that! I have that mode on 3 of my Pentax bodies and even from the instruction manuals never understood it. Not sure I'd use it as I mainly shoot Av or M, and Tv for action or moving subjects if my aim is to stop motion. No matter what mode I'm in I watch the other parameters like a hawk (old habit from decades of film shooting). So this now makes me wonder what Pentax's Sv mode is? Early on (around 2011) I once accidentally set my K-20D to Sv thinking it was like Nikon's "S" (see at that point I had had no reason to try Tv). Yikes, the camera was making "crazy" confusing choices so I put it back to Av. So what then is Sv? "Fully Auto ISO," what is that? You seem to have some insight.

1. USING A SHUTTER SPEED THAT’S TOO SLOW
Agree

2. CHOOSING THE WRONG FOCUS POINT

Still agree

3. NOT SHOOTING IN HIGH ISO

This is application specific. ISO should only be increased when needed. ISO is NOT part of exposure in digital cameras since it doesn't increase the sensitivity of the sensor. ISO is simply applied gain, like a volume knob for brightness. ISO doesn't increase the sensitivity of your sensor anymore than turning up the volume in your car makes the radio signal come in stronger. So, for the best results, you want to keep the amount of gain to a minimum and that means NOT shooting high ISO when you don't need to. Most cameras are best at base ISO, your D4s is actually best at ISO 200.

4. ALWAYS SHOOTING AT WIDE APERTURES

Again, application specific.

5. USING IMAGE STABILIZATION WHILE USING A TRIPOD

Again, depends. Most modern stabilizes lenses can be used on a tripod with the head lose - as is typically done with wildlife. Don't use stabilization with a locked tripod.

I bring up these points not to be argumentative, but because I detest simple little lists like that. They don't apply to every situation but new photographers take it that way. They can often cause more problems than they solve.