I feel like such an idiot!

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Did a shoot of a Saab today and throughout the camera was being weird. After focusing it would delay the shot and all my photos were coming out over exposed.

I could not figure it out until basically the final shot of the day and I realised my ISO had somehow been set at 3200 :(

No idea how that happened as I keep the ISO on 100 for my car shoots.

I have shot in RAW but can anything be done or (as I suspect) are they destined to be grainy like that.

What a total idiot!

Sammy
 
ahh well I thought so, just have to do the shoot again.

Steep learning curve but it wont happen again!

Would the fps be reduced when shooting at such a high ISO? Camera felt different at that setting.
 
In camera noise reduction was probably taking longer to process slowing everything down.
 
We all make mistakes like this. You will learn to quickly sort the problem on the spot, if something is off, then it needs fixing, it won't go away by itself. You noticed the images were over exposed, it had to be either the shutter speed was too slow [would also have blurred the images] or the ISO was too high. Next time, you'll check those first, lesson learned :)

As for recovering the images - in lightroom drag back the exposure, up the blacks maybe - this can help give over exposed/noisey images some solidity and hide some noise in the shadows. You could try the noise luminance, take the sharpness slider down, this will also help, and up the luminance to about 20-30, above this and the images may start to 'smoothen' and look odd. Also try taking clarity down, this can also help with noise/grain.
 
thanks for the advice, I googled it and there were plenty of other people who had done the same lol.

You are right, I wont do it again!

Thing is I don't fully understand ISO completely. So didnt appreciate that when shooting with a high ISO in full light it would do that. I thought it was in low lighting that it would make the images grainy to allow for shorter shutter speeds.

Off topic, but am I right in thinking ISO is a change in the sensitivity of the sensor? basically?
 
When I first got my new camera (D800e) I fired a few shots in the back garden then went out to find some red kites, the said bird was flying very low overhead and the camera wouldn't fire. I never took the manual with me so I missed the first few flyovers then found out I never had the autofocus in the centre but to the extreme right..grrrr then kicked myself
 
The ISO changes the amplification of the signal from the sensor just before it is converted into a digital form. a bit like turning up the volume control :)
Strictly speaking you cannot change the sensitivity of the sensor but that is how many people view it.
 
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