What Do You Constantly Do Wrong When Shooting?

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My worst habits are (in order of annoyance)....

1. I never, ever remember to pop up the flash on the camera when using it to trigger CLS - there's always a "!$%!" after the first click of the shutter button! :bang:

2. Almost always forget to check the aperture setting when shooting in 'A' mode - find myself shooting at F4 quite a lot when I really should be at F11. :nuts:

Does anyone else do stupid/annoying things like this constantly or is it only me?
 
Rush!

I have to make a concious effort to just s l o w down much too often.
Getting home and viewing on the computer and thinking "if only I had noticed that annoyance in the background" or "if only I had been at a slightly different angle" should not still be happening ... but it does!
 
Forget to check the iso

Realise I left one of the Pocket Wizards switched on from 2 weeks previous and the battery is now flat...
 
DekHog said:
My worst habits are (in order of annoyance)....

1. I never, ever remember to pop up the flash on the camera when using it to trigger CLS - there's always a "!$%!" after the first click of the shutter button! :bang:

2. Almost always forget to check the aperture setting when shooting in 'A' mode - find myself shooting at F4 quite a lot when I really should be at F11. :nuts:

Does anyone else do stupid/annoying things like this constantly or is it only me?
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Yep, me too for #1 (Sony in my case). First frame is always black! :bonk:
 
Watch the background and check the settings before use. iso 1600 and f2.8 with a shutter of 1/70th isnt much good outside:)
 
forgetting to check the ISO or WB - I doubt I'll ever get out of either habit unless Canon invents some sort of warning system for me, or I could have some sort of checklist...
 
I always reset my camera to a set of "default" settings before I put it away. That way I know exactly what it's set at when I pick it up. I use ISO 100, Aperture priority, f4 and AWB. Eval metering, single shot and centr point autofocus. Anything I want to change can be changed from there but I'm not going to make any horrendous mistakes from that setup.

What I do wrong is I like to underexpose a little and I do it too often and too much!
 
AliB said:
I always reset my camera to a set of "default" settings before I put it away. That way I know exactly what it's set at when I pick it up. I use ISO 100, Aperture priority, f4 and AWB. Eval metering, single shot and centr point autofocus. Anything I want to change can be changed from there but I'm not going to make any horrendous mistakes from that setup.
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I do exactly the same except that I always leave the aperture wide open (Don't ask me why, just seems neater to me! :bonk:).
 
Bump my nose on the iso button (canon 400d) Very annoying to find half way through a day at a car show or the like ive been using 800iso :bang:
 
DekHog said:
My worst habits are (in order of annoyance)....

1. I never, ever remember to pop up the flash on the camera when using it to trigger CLS - there's always a "!$%!" after the first click of the shutter button! :bang:
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Yep, that one!


Flash In The Pan said:
Forget to check the iso
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Definately that one!



and an extra one just for me, forget to turn bracketting off then wonder why the next 4 or 5 shots are all over or underexposed :bang:
 
Pressing the shutter button is my downfall :(
 
Looking at the pictures afterwards :D .....

.....and getting depressed at how bad I am at this lark - lol
 
Its always the ISO with me and often not checking the background.
 
ISO for me too....and even when l do remember to check it, l find it is not where l thought it was, because l have bumped it with my nose...again.

l also keep forgetting to take it out of raw when shoot sports. l'm using continuous shoot and suddenly my card is full.
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
Changing to manual focus when bracketing, then forgetting i'm not in AF for a dozen other scenes. :bonk:
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No need to do that. Simply assign a different button to autofocus. AF-ON for Nikon, * for Canon.

Have focus and exposure on the same button seems handy, but really does get in the way, as you've discovered.
 
Surprised no one has mentioned forgetting to reset the exposure compensation to zero after having taken a shot.

Thank God for RAW is all I can say

David
 
Forgetting to put my CF card back in after it being in the card reader! The amount of times I've gone somewhere and left the flippin memory card at home!!

ISO is another one for me
 
Lightroom copies the pictures off the card to the computer but does not erase the card afterwards. I keep forgetting to format it when I put it back in the camera and start shooting with a near full card.

ISO sometimes

I usually shoot A but also use Manual. Sometimes forget Its still in M and don't look at the meter..... then see the exposure is wrong from the histogram - after the shot.
 
RobertP said:
I usually shoot A but also use Manual. Sometimes forget Its still in M and don't look at the meter..... then see the exposure is wrong from the histogram - after the shot.
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Did that at WHF last month. Had changed to Manual without realising and reeled off 20 shots before looking at the images and seeing they were all black! :bang:
 
Forgetting to change the white balance is definately my flaw. Oh, and when you see a 'once in a lifetime' shot and you have the nifty-fifty on when you need your telefoto :(
 
not taking enough pics. and not taking enough shots at differnt fstops, i easily get stuck at 2.8 for everything without realising
 
Not checking the ISO, back ground and forgetting to format my card before I start.
 
I get too excited when I'm presented with a great photo opp, then forget all I know and fudge it.
 
Ohhh this is my worst one..
Not deleting images after copying to the comp..
Start a shoot then realising I haven't got many shots left.
I cant format the card as Ive just taken some new pix so would have to delete the old ones one by one. Sometimes hundreds of them!
 
DekHog said:
What Do You Constantly Do Wrong?
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Be f****** if I know!

I'd be a great photographer if I could work out what it is I am doing wrong though.
 
Pick up the camera... ;)

check the background for clutter that I can't clone out. ISO and settings wrong, mirror lockup and self timer left on either from Macro or Astro. Not clearing the SD Card, managing to turn the mode dial to A-DEP when putting the camera back in the bag... which confuses the hell out of me when I'm trying to focus and 4 focus points light up when I'm only expecting one.
 
OneTen said:
I get too excited when I'm presented with a great photo opp, then forget all I know and fudge it.
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Yeah, I'm with you on this one, I've done a bit of band photography recently (first three songs and no flash), then subsequently firing off more shots than a machine gun in those three songs and getting quite carried away. I'm sure if I slowed down, shot less and remebered to have a bit of chimp at my shutter speeds and histograms I'd end up with much more keepers.
 
I think I do the following wrong...

1. Forget to change the exposure compensation back.

2. Go out with only one lens as I'm say after shooting landscape only... and a cracking shot apears where I need my telephoto!

3. Think my spare battery is charged and actually its flat!

4. Think about my shots to much... almost overcomplicate my shooting with the vast quantity of technical reading i've done... should remeber the simple rules and carry them out... and spend more time on my composition or taking more shots rather than loads of the same with a slight tweek in settings all the time...

5. Decide I wont need a tripod! Or bring it but be too lazy to use it!

6. Not think out the box enough and end up with mundane good shots but lack that inspirational new WOW factor... Need to get some new angles!

7. On night shots I under expose all the time!

8. Forget to bring any food or a flask of tea!
 
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