What Do You Constantly Do Wrong When Shooting?

I try to reset my camera after every use but still find thing slipping through. Whether it's the ISO, exposure compensation, leaving it on manual focus etc etc. It's always a different thing with me.

Oh and I'm always putting the view finder to my eye before realising I haven't taken the lens cap off.
 
Trev Rich said:
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!
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I do that as well,a right PITA to sort out.
 
The other funny thing I've done a couple of times is forget the last time I used the camera was with the self timer mode set. Frame the shot... press the shutter... beep beep beep... now do I just stand still for 10 seconds until it takes the picture or put the camera back down and pretend I know what I'm doing :)
 
sometimes my lens is on MF and i dont realise after a while of taking pictures and not hearing the focussing noise
 
RobertP said:
The other funny thing I've done a couple of times is forget the last time I used the camera was with the self timer mode set. Frame the shot... press the shutter... beep beep beep... now do I just stand still for 10 seconds until it takes the picture or put the camera back down and pretend I know what I'm doing
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:lol: Switch it off ASAP for sure... Oh the embarrassment!

Loving this thread, I only mentioned one but really I have a whole heap so its good to see I'm just as daft as everyone else.

Does any one else go off in search of a well lit landscape, find a scene and take a few test shots whilst waiting for the light to improve ...get bored waiting and wander off looking for other shots to fill the time. Then the light improves, but your so busy trying to make the most of it you run out of time to go back and take the shot you came for in the first place. :bonk:
 
RobertP said:
The other funny thing I've done a couple of times is forget the last time I used the camera was with the self timer mode set. Frame the shot... press the shutter... beep beep beep... now do I just stand still for 10 seconds until it takes the picture or put the camera back down and pretend I know what I'm doing :)
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That's a great one. 10 seconds would feel like an eternity with the camera to your face and everyone looking at you.
 
Trev Rich said:
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!
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Me too, I'm always doing that... ARRGGHH :bang:
 
The bloody lens cap. How many times I've gone redfaced by looking through the camera and it being pitch black :p

ISO as well, I should get into the habit of resetting settings after shoots but I often forget, so halfway through something I might realise I'm using a fairly high ISO.
 
Worst, but by no means the only fault..... looking at every shot played back in the LCD
 
Taking bird pics with telephoto lens then right before my eyes two fantastic birds appear and start a fight(could be sat night in town)but this was on hol in mexico tried to get the closer birds the camera wont take the photo, scratch head puzzle then realise that focus distance switch was set wrong, switch reset but the fantastic birds have now flew off arghh!
 
Leave the lens cap on which everybody around can see and so lose any credibility as a photographer.

Shoot wide open just 'cos I have a fast lens on, even though the shot demands some dof.

Shooting in the style of the last shot I was looking at on the web rather than using the style that would best suit the subject.

Exposure comp.

Keeping iso low to avoid noise and so screwing up the shot as the shutter speed is too slow.

Thinking I would take better shots with more expensive gear.

Many, many others.
 
Forgetting that I've chosen a particular focus zone, and finishing up with a perfectly focussed background, and an out of focus subject. Doh!
 
Things i specifically get wrong would be most things but unfortunately is composition right now which is the worst thing to get wrong i expect.
 
Sometimes I under expose or over expose when I'm photographing the birds in the garden which is a easy mistake to make (I think if we didn't make mistakes, we wouldn't learn from them or improve) :), sometimes I'm about to take a photo and forget to turn the camera on :lol:
 
I'm terrible at getting my horizons or subject level. You'd think it was easy, looking at it through the viewfinder but they always seem a wee bit squint.
 
Not resetting exposure comp. and iso. Sloping horizons here too:shake:
 
Camera wise I don't really fudge things up - I always check what settings I'm using before/during the shot.

Compositionally, however... Well things making their way into the frame, wonky horizons and simply choosing boring, 'safe' compositions is what I most commonly end up doing.
 
Sloping horizons and not spotting the red anorak on a landscape till I get home.
 
I put my Sigma 120-300 on it's collar the wrong way round a couple of months ago. Didn't realise for 45 minutes or so why it was feeling so unusual on the monopod :D
 
The same as Robert with the self timer. Get the grandchildren lined up, finally. Then click the button beep..beep stay there a second beep..beep..beep just a couple of seconds more .. beep .. PLEASE .. beep .. Where are you going .. click :razz:

My other one is always forgetting to switch back from shooting in manual.
 
ISO being wrong

Lens left in manual focus

Exposure Compensation not reset.

Wrong WB (not such a big problem as I shoot RAW)

Timer being left on

Mirror lock up being left on

Continuous shooting left on

Tending to under expose too many of my pics to retain the highlights, but going too far.

Carrying too much camera stuff which I hardly use. (my poor hunched back) ;) :lol:

After all that I amazed any of my pics come out at all. :eek: :lol:
 
Anyone care to admit to not turning the camera on. My first shot of the day usually ends up with " whats wrong now" :shake: followed by " FFS !! I've done it again" :bonk:
 
forget to turn it on......forget to open the curtain......forget to wind on....etc

not bad with the lens cap though...:D
 
I'm always including unsightly bits and pieces in the background and foreground of shots that I never notice until either editing or posting it for some crit. :bonk:

Tommy.
 
I sorted the 'forgetting to remove the lens cap' issue just this week... I just don't use them: my cheapo UV filters protect the lens glass well enough for me... :D
 
Lord Carson said:
Anyone care to admit to not turning the camera on.
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I never turn mine off. Just let it go to sleep mode. Doesn't shorten the battery life and it wakes with a touch of the shutter.

In fact if you have it turned off then open the card door the red light still flashes so it was still live to some degree anyway even when 'off'.
 
RobertP said:
I never turn mine off. Just let it go to sleep mode. Doesn't shorten the battery life and it wakes with a touch of the shutter.

In fact if you have it turned off then open the card door the red light still flashes so it was still live to some degree anyway even when 'off'.
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Apparently, the Nikon D200/D300 use about 2mA when the camera is off, and only about 3mA when it is on. :eek: So I don't worry too much about leaving the camera on whilst walking about, but try to remember to turn it off when I put it away. ;)
 
Picking the camera up, thats where i go wrong!

Usual mistake is either WB or camera is in manual when i grab it out of car in a rush and end up taking a dark pic.
 
Constantly? Nothing! I used to have problems with sloping horizons but with the built in level in the D700 (a quick press of the button under the DoF preview is how I've got mine set) they're a thing of the past.

From time to time, almost all of the above! Mainly, leaving exposure compensation on (although I tend to notice that the symbol's showing now), forgetting to format the card (but I've always got spares on me so I can swap with a blank) and leaving the ISO at 1600 or above (not a real problem on the D700 unless there's too much light!).
 
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