Bad Photo Day.

RogersDA

Just spent the entire day yesterday with the family in D.C. Wandered around the postal museum and took a bunch of shots, including what should have been some neat shots of the Capitol at night.

Got home, put the little girl to bed, imported the photos to Lightroom, and everything looked like cr*p!!!

Everything I shot was with ISO 3200, which on a 20D is very noisy. Couldn't find a decent shot in the bunch. :wxwax:uhoh:bluduh

No idea how the ISO was changed.

DavidTO

As Schmoo says, "Every day is check your ISO day."



Sorry, to hear about that. BTDT.

cletus

DavidTO wrote:

Sorry, to hear about that. BTDT.

+1

schmoo

That sucks, David.

I swear that sometimes there's a little ISO fairy that goes around pushing buttons and changing them when you're not around.

I've actually been advised to stick a note on my camera as a reminder, but I haven't found anything that would stay there reliably so far.

Better luck next time. Hey, on the bright side at least DC isn't across the country from you, so visiting the monuments at night isn't a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Just trying to find the silver lining.

BlueHoseJacket

I know the feeling
The first of September I drove from Atlanta to South Bend, Indiana to watch Georgia Tech play Notre Dame in football. I brought my camera along with me and took a bunch of pictures before the game of the campus, during the game of the fans, players etc. Turns out my ISO was set at 3200. Every picture was horrible. I will probably never make it back to Notre Dame, it was a beautiful campus. At least Tech won....but looking back on it, it not a very impressive win.

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

BTDT.

Got the t-shirt.

henryp

RogersDA wrote:

No idea how the ISO was changed.

Remember the time the Ektachrome didn't catch on the take up spool and when you realized you'd shot WAY more than 36 with your Canon AE-1 you realized you forgot to check the tension on the rewind knob? The more things change the more they stay the same.

RogersDA

henryp wrote:

Remember the time the Ektachrome didn't catch on the take up spool and when you realized you'd shot WAY more than 36 with your Canon AE-1 you realized you forgot to check the tension on the rewind knob? The more things change the more they stay the same.

Henry,

That actually reminds of a time, long ago, when I was shooting florals at the botanical gardens and not paying any attention to the # of shots. Turns out the take-up spool on the camera was broken and wouldn't advance the film. I overexposed the same image about 30 times before I realized that. Not that I had a spare camera or anything like that.

Idea: Digital camera with cochlear implant for privately advising photographer of dumb/broken settings on camea prior to shooting; e.g., "psst....dummy, you're using ISO 8,000,000. You might want to tone that down a notch or two" or "psst....dummy, your fat fingers pressed the braketing button again. Might want to get a Canon instead."

cmason

sigh...auto iso on canon would be so nice (yes sorta in a 40D)



my BIL shot an entire day on his new Rebel XT, only to find out that he didnt have a memory card in, and had the 'shoot w/o card" feature turned on. (feature? why is that a feature?)

twinsmom

schmooo wrote:

I've actually been advised to stick a note on my camera as a reminder, but I haven't found anything that would stay there reliably so far.

I haven't tried it but what about a label from a label maker? They seem to stick really well to anything I've tried so far. Off to make one for my camera.

StevenV

cmason wrote:

my BIL shot an entire day on his new Rebel XT, only to find out that he didnt have a memory card in, and had the 'shoot w/o card" feature turned on. (feature? why is that a feature?)

that's my biggest "oops, BTDT" - I blew about an hour of what I think were decent shots one evening due to messing up my normal routine, leaving me with no card in the camera. I immediately dug into the custom settings and found the place t turn that off.

but yea, I've also shot wrong-ISO for half a Lacrosse game once... and the odd part was that I knew something was wrong, I just couldn't figure out what Finally... Doh!

RogersDA

Here are Samples.
20D @ 36mm, ISO 3200, f/5.6, 1/250 sec.
Union Station



20D @ 235mm, ISO 3200, f/22, 0.25 sec.
Capitol Dome