Your beginner mistakes

[Chavezshutter]

Those are some funny stories .

I have done all the mistakes that we all make along the journey, but the one that still upsets me to this day is from my last visit to Tasmania. I ended up with 3x 64GB cards worth of photos, it should have been 4 but while shooting at night and needing space I erased all of the photos from what i thought was a card that had been backed up, it was the wrong non-backup card and i lost almost 1500 photos (full days worth of shooting in beautiful Tasmanian wilderness) with that mistake. Let's just say I do my card backup a lot differently now and I wont be making the same mistake again.

 

[Greg]

Oh my god Chavezshutter , when you realized that, you want to cry ...

 

[Yohanna_D]

My first mistakes in photography... hmmm.... there were many...

• most of my pictures blurred
• most of my picture under exposed
• most of my picture over exposed
• most of my pictures - out of frame or badly framed (a lot of subjects had something cut: a leg, an arm, an antena, a wing etc)

 

[Greg]

Yes Yohanna_D averybody who start photography made those mistakes, that's normal It's take many time to understand parameters and technics.
Did you ever made the mistake of forget to remove the lens cap ? lol
"Why my picture is black ?! " lol

 

[Yohanna_D]

Yes Yohanna_D averybody who start photography made those mistakes, that's normal It's take many time to understand parameters and technics.
Did you ever made the mistake of forget to remove the lens cap ? lol
"Why my picture is black ?! " lol

No, I never forgot to to remove the lens cap to shoot; however more than once I forgot my SD card to insert in my camera so no chance I could take photos!

 

[Greg]

lol yes, I did that mistake when I started my water drop try, I try a first time, I remove the SD to put it in my computer, then I go back for shooting and ... "ERROR : SD CARD MISSING" F**K ! lol

 

[Yohanna_D]

That's exactly how we forget the SD card: we insert it our computers to upload our photos and we forget about it; then we take our camera and we go out to shoot again and then... DRAMA happens

 

[Greg]

The same when I forget to remove manual focus ... I see something I wanna shot, I pull triger and ... nothing happen lol

 

[Jack]

Forgetting the high ISO it's fine, imagine me forgetting the battery for the camera home, luckily I had a second camera with me, but had to keep an eye on battery life, as mirroless cameras are eating more battery then the bigger one.

 

[Greg]

oh yes that the bad point of mirrorless ... Camera full battery = 250 pictures, My reflex 500 minimum. But i just bought 2 more batteries for 30€