Listener Ben pointed us to a good article over at the Epic Edits Weblog. It’s a list of seven things that we should always keep in mind in or photography, but that nearly all of us have failed to do at some point.
One that I saw on here that I deal with is checking the ISO. I’ll set it at 3200 for something, and then I’ll start shooting and realize I’m getting noisy shots. Thankfully as cameras get better this gets to be less of a problem but we need to watch it.
One that they forgot on this list that’s a biggie is checking your quality setting. Occasionally I’ll lower down to a low setting like 1 megapixel or less to take a few quick web shots for ebay or somethin (Yep I ebay too) The disaster has never happened to me, but can you imagine if I forgot, and shot a whole wedding at 1600×1200 resolution… I don’t even want to think about it, but I need to, so I always remember to kick it back up when I’m done. I don’t lower it very often for that very reason.
Bottom line is no matter how much experience we have we need to always think like newbee’s in the area of making mistakes. We can all do it, and the more experience we have the easier it is to do. Pride comes before a fall!
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