Photographer confessions

[edutilos-]

in line with all the confession pages , i am inviting seniors , sempais, newbies, cats, dogs and any and every species please to. . .

confess your worst photography technique mistakes. eg nuclear flash, bounce flash off sky . . .

thanks. sincere thread here not coffee shop confession thread. meow.

By the way I suspect you will get funnier responses if people just PM you and you post on their behalf. :bsmilie:

That's the usual arrangement I think.

 

[Blur Shadow]

By the way I suspect you will get funnier responses if people just PM you and you post on their behalf. :bsmilie:

That's the usual arrangement I think.

His PM will go bust!

 

[catchlights]

I remember bringing out the camera and tripod.

But no QR plate. Cos the day before lend to somebody else and forgot to put it back. :bsmilie:

My L-bracket, custom plate are attach to the camera bodies permanently, and each bags have a allan key.

 

[catchlights]

i went to the canon photomarathon with my camera but not the memory card.

happen to me once, but is a leisure shoot, so I bought a very expensive memory card from Funan.
from than onward, I check and place memory cards inside the cameras before I go out.

 

[catchlights]

I did something really really stupid once... I got too caught up with a shoot, forget that for some reason I have set my exposure to +1 or more, and carry on shooting in a bright hot day... and in between I didn't bother to check. So... when I went back home... I almost fainted at the result... everything was white washed.

a very good reason to shoot in RAW, and always chimp on monitor for important shots.

 

[iguanavon]

Brought my tripod and cam overseas... Left mounting plate at home... -_-"

 

[catchlights]

during my timelapse outings,
from all the bad experiences, I learnt

bring enough memory cards,
fully recharge batteries and bring extra batteries,
switch off image preview,
remember to switch to manual focusing,
remove filters for night shoot,
get sturdy tripod,
deploy tripod on sturdy ground,
bring a white plastic bag to cover camera when shooting under the sun,

 

[TWmilkteaTW]

Yea..quite common 1 for me is forgot to switch back the ISO..:bsmilie: Or sometimes the Exposure comp. I had no problem with memory card though. Since i always make sure i put it back into the camera after extracting out the pictures. Battery is ok too since i always place it beside the camera..cant miss it. Its the settings that i sometimes forgot to switch back. Some still ok....some are just horror. :bsmilie:

 

[rhino123]

Also to all bros and sis out there... if you happen to lend your cam to your friends, when their return you the cam (even if it was just only for a little while.), make sure that you check the setting.

I borrowed my cam once to a bro when we went shooting together once, he changed my ISO setting... I was still very green then, so didn't know, and when I receive my cam back, I happily carry on shooting... find it abit funny that I am still able to maintain a quite fast shutter speed even at f8 and lighting was not really that bright.

Go home... found that my shots are all pretty noisy... luckily, can save using PS.

 

[zeehamzah]

When i jump to the M4/3 world, I was so overly excited after I bought my GX1.
Pack lens,body and cards for a gathering next day... and come to realise i FORGOT the BATTERY the very next day.

 

[Shizuma]

I "charged" my battery overnight in the charger. Next day it was flat as it was initially.
That's because I did not turn on the power -__-

*clap hands* :bsmilie:

 

[tecnica]

Ok la, the 2010 canon photomarathon I registered to get the shirt nia. Did not plan to shoot the themes.

 

[kohbro]

Borrowed 50 f1.4 from a friend. Shot wide open. Focused then recomposed. Shots came out oof. Blamed the lens for my ignorance...

 

[Peterleenc]

The AF/M switch accidentally switch to manual focus and shooting for the whole night all photos OOF.

 

[Shen siung]

wake up in the morning, slightly late to take MRT for sunrise, thus taking taxi - half way from jurong west, on AYE, realise battery was left on the charger!
ask thew taxi driver to turn back and pick up.

Lesson:
1. Always wake up early for sunrise
2. Always charge earlier if possible
3. always check battery and memory card before leave

 

[olyomono]

using olympus pen with the 15mm f8 body cap lens only as it looks gd enough which I thought it was as it looks the same as a normal body cap, went out for cycling and some shoot and realised indeed is a body cap, suck thumb

 

[edutilos-]

His PM will go bust!

Worthy sacrifice for the cause. :bsmilie:

 

[paperm00n]

When i was young and trying out photography, i shot the entire day on film. But realise that the cam i used doesnt have an auto feed. Hence the film isnt loaded and no pictures were taken the whole day.

It just happened last year I was trying out film camera for my first time and I did not load the film properly. I took like 30+ photos and only had one exposure entire roll of film wasted.

 

[Shizuma]

By the way I suspect you will get funnier responses if people just PM you and you post on their behalf. :bsmilie:

That's the usual arrangement I think.

Hi friends and sempais, cats, dogs, and various other species

I have organized this thread into something more social

http://www.facebook.com/PhotographerConfessions

Anonymous submission : http://bit.ly/X8yGzn

moderated responses will be shown at Facebook page and Kopitiam.
educational responses will be continued to be posted here.

please help yourself to spam my submission page

 

[Shizuma]

i requested some members of landscape photo outing wait for me (i was running 15mins late) while I caught a bus to the meetup location, as i was afraid of losing my way

ended up that due to my 15mins of lateness we missed the sunset, the clouds covered the sky and all we had was blue hour (no golden hour).

I have since declined every FB invite to their events because of embarrassment!