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03/18/2008 02:03:09 PM · #1 |
Whenever I take my camera out in public I just get these mental blanks, I'm getting better, I'm not the fumbling mess I used to be, but I still make basic errors.
Yesterday I decided to shoot at the St Patrick's day parade. While waiting for it to start I was checking the camera settings making sure I didn't repeat any of my previous mistakes (wrong ISO etc.) - Everything looked fine.
So the parade starts, and I get a good position at the front, and start shooting with no problems. Until I decided to pop the on-camera flash for some weak (-2.0) fill to lift shadows a bit. But now, from the pre-focus to the shutter release was taking half a second, and with that lag I was missing shots. When I turned off the flash everything was fine again (no lag)
This morning I figured out what was happening. Can anyone guess what idiotic mistake I made?
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03/18/2008 02:05:27 PM · #2 |
Flash recycle time? Or night portrait mode?
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03/18/2008 02:10:47 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Patrick_R:
Flash recycle time? Or night portrait mode? |
Nope. Although flash recycle time was the first thing that I thought of, it wasn't that. It was even more stupid... :) |
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03/18/2008 02:14:02 PM · #4 |
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03/18/2008 02:18:38 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Mr_Pants:
Red-eye reduction? |
Yes! Got it! - When I was looking through the settings beforehand I decided to turn on red-eye reduction for some reason... big DOH! today when I realised what I'd done.
Moral of the story; don't mess with the settings 10 minutes before you start shooting.... :) |
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03/18/2008 02:21:49 PM · #6 |
I can totally empathize...if I had a dollar for every time I've been stumped by my own mistakes I'd have a lot more lenses than I do at the moment. :)
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03/18/2008 02:25:47 PM · #7 |
I never screw up, I'm perfect. Sometimes my camera goofs up though.
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03/18/2008 02:27:14 PM · #8 |
Yeah I hate when my camera messes up. :)
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