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01/13/2007 10:13:12 PM · #1 |
Today I was assisting on a photo shoot for my wife (clothing designer) - my day-job office is a large loft with several blank walls great for shooting against, so that's where we were. I had to help her get everything set up and taken down, obviously.
Professional model, Pro-Am Makeup Tech, Professional Photographer (a semi-friend).
The other photographer brought her two light boxes and had them setup to shoot with. When the time finally came to start shooting I just got so into things that I had stopped paying nearly enough attention to anything except the viewfinder and when I downloaded my photos I'd found that I ruined most of them. I'd forgotten to make any necessary lighting adjustments... in this case, dropping my ISO to 200 or 400 to work with the available lights. I shot the entire thing in 100, which is obviously great for clarity, but ended up with longer shutter times and almost everything has some motion blur.
I feel that I did manage to get several good photos, and quite a few more that would have been good if it hadn't been for some motion.
Have you ever done this, or something similar? Being a secondary/assistant had me with enough other tasks that the one I really wanted to do just got lost. |
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01/13/2007 10:25:54 PM · #2 |
No.
But I've done it as the principal photog at my sister-in-laws wedding.
:/
Consider yourself lucky.
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01/13/2007 10:50:11 PM · #3 |
In authoring software I used to tell my supervisor that I've made almost every mistake already, so what's left but perfection.
Anything can happen, that's how we learn new tricks. Sometimes the difficult ones are easy and visa-versa. In software creation we blame the computer, so blame the camera for not beeping out loud. Try to reshoot if possible.
Thanks for the warning, yes I have done some things like not set color balance. Luckily some batch processing fixed that. I have also done what you did but no model expense or extensive setups involved.
It's only a matter of time before cameras have some intelligent software that will beep and talk and annoy you sometimes like seatbelt warnings in cars.
Next time maybe pretend you're flying a plane and have a small notepad for the preflight checklist.
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