photo 01 Mar 2007 10:43 am
ISO Mistakes
I was shooting a local band at a dim venue (stop me if you’ve heard this one before). I started out at 1600 for the opener. There were a few fans taking pictures with flash, so I figured I’d fire off a few as well. I set the ISO down to 400, changed mode manual and set my aperture and shutter speed. Throughout the night I’d occasionally switch to my on camera flash, always careful to switch between modes, but never careful to set the ISO back. So I took a few hundred shots at 400 that I meant to take at 800 or 1600. Some of them had some really cool motion in them:
Some of them just turned out perfectly normal:
Usually I’d catch this sort of thing between bands, but during the break there was a double hit and run accident in front of the club so I got all excited by that and forgot to do my requisite chimping.
All in all, I came out with a few usable pictures, but lost more than I usually do. I hope it happens to everyone at least once, so I don’t feel like such an idiot. Got any good "I forgot this basic thing" stories?
This post originally posted in a Flickr thread.