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   bjrichus
   

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   I was driving home yesterday and on a back country road I came upon an old wrecked out Hearse. It was in bad shape, with rust and a load of internal panels missing. It looked really interesting with lots of contrasting textures and color against the green of the grass it was sitting on and the trees in the background. Worthy of a shot for one of my 'personal projects'.

   Out comes my backup SLR as I only had it with me at the time and I set up the shot. Wait for the cars on the road off to one side that would mess up the composition to get into the right position (out of shot), breath half out and hold everything still - get the shot.

   At home, I get the picture into Photoshop and ... It looks kind of rough! Noisy is certainly the word, but it's not tooooooo bad.

   I used my Topaz de-noise filter and its kind of rescued but for sure, it won't enlarge bigger than about 10x12 (maybe 12x15 if I am lucky) without what noise is left becoming visible. There is a patch on the car body where about 20 years ago, someone used filler to repair it that is showing through the rust now and the Topaz filter has made it look like I used HDR on just that part of the shot!

   So I look at the EXIF data. I haden't paid too much mind to it when taking the shot, as it was a bright "sunny 16" kind of day.

   It was taken at apeture priority, 1/2000 at f7.1 which happens to be tack sharp on my lens and good DOF at that combo, but it was at ISO 3200 .... WHAT? Should have been at ISO 100 or maybe 200 but 3200? That explains the noise.

   Then it hits me... DOH!!!!!!!

   My fault.

   Last time had used this body was inside and had set it that high to get the shot and I simply forgot to reset it.

   So.... back to the title of this post... "Have YOU ever done this?"

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   Hell yeah I've done it. I got my D40 the day before the 2008 NY Auto Show and I didn't know what I was doing. I saw someone with a D80 and went up to him for some tips and he told me to crank up the ISO to 3200 and I saw I was getting non-blurry pics. I'm not sure if he knew what he was doing, but I think he was in a rush so he didn't explain to me what the trade offs were.

   How was I supposed to know it would look great on a 2.5 inch LCD and terrible on a monitor?

   On the other hand, I understood ISO quite quickly. :D

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   NSXType-R said:
   How was I supposed to know it would look great on a 2.5 inch LCD and terrible on a monitor?

   On the other hand, I understood ISO quite quickly. :D

   There ya go! :)

   This is the second time I have done this (not reset the ISO) so I need to get a system in place to remind me to do it. LOL!

   What ticks me off is that I have been making a series of images and have all the long edge of the prints 20". This one shot would have been a great part of the series. Ah well. Perhaps it'll get used somewhere else... Or I could drive 200 miles back to the wreck in the field and do another shot? It is Saturday after all and I don't have much else to do until this evening... 400 miles round trip... Yikes!

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   I did this once for a large family portrait. It was ISO 800, but still I was lighting with strobes so it felt like a waste. At least I realized before the smaller group and individual portraits. Even those still looked okay and the family was very happy with them, but I live with my shame to this day. ;-)

   Now I have the ISO in my viewfinder so it hasn't been a problem since (I turn on the "show ISO" in the custom settings menu).

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   Yes! I take photos mostly when on vacation, so I am going in and out of churches, and museums all the time. Every time I have to remember to switch my iso. The majority of the time I shoot in A mode so it is really easy to forget about the iso setting that I pick once per location. I can't come up with a single catastrophe, but I can't count the number of times I have gone indoors, whipped out my camera, and pressed the shutter button only to get a 1/2 second exposure. At least that makes it easy to catch, and going outside again I can usually hear the unusually fast shutter speed and readjust again. Sorry for your loss!

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   Shot a family group at one of my first weddings at too wide an aperture ONCE! I had the group stand in a horse shoe shape and forgot to change it from the f2.8 I had used inside the chapel. Got home and looked at the picture on my PC, the bride and groom looked nice, couldn't make out the people standing at the edges though! :-) Ever since then I ALWAYS reset all my cameras to MY default settings after every shoot, and re-check them before the next shoot. I also shot a video ONCE with an external mic attached to the hot shoe. Got a realy nice looking piece of footage, and then noticed I hadn't turned the mic power on!!! No sound what so ever, as the external mic disables the internal one. I have a Red elastic band tied round it now to serve as a visual reminder to TURN IT ON! We all do it bjrichus.

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   I guess we all got caught by the ISO trap once or more.

   On my D70 it was a big mistake to use an ISO above 800.

   From another hand, if you print the noise photo, you will see that the result is not so bad as in the display.

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   That would be why I always just set my camera to Auto ISO. I have done that many times.

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   I usually don't mess with my ISO, but I have left settings messed up many of times. We were at 4th of July fireworks and about half way through I thought I would take a look at the pics...realized they were all in B&W. I find it being a problem when I go from lens to lens, because I was different settings on them...especially with the new 105 macro lens.

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    After reading all these replies, I'm glad it not just me :-)

    Think I'll tape a large note on the inside of my camera bag flap reminding me to check the ISO setting EVEY TIME...

    LOL!!

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    I remember doing this on film cameras, F3.

    shooting 400, inside a church, remember every 38/39 shots you changed the roll and I picked up a 100 iso that I had in the bag, I would usually carry the different film in different pockets so I would not make that mistake.

    they were not carried in their boxes, but in the plastic canister, as it took too much time to open the boxes of Kodak, well did not make that mistake after that, all 400s had a rubber band wrapped tightly around the canister so you could tell what was in there without opening.

    Whew!!!!

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    I think most people who change their iso have forgotten to change it once or twice. I know I have.

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    The previous night I was shooting a venue at ISO 1600 with my D200. The next day I was shooting engagement pictures outdoors still at 1600. OOPS, Used Neet Image to clean up the noise issue. They must have been happy as they hired me to shoot their wedding also. Now I always return my camera settings to a standard point when done shooting. That was very embarassing for me. Though this happened over five years ago, I remember it like it just happened.

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    Think this happened to me once or twice, with other settings as well. Even this one time I shot an event that didn't really need much editing or high-quality photos to begin with, so I switched from RAW to JPG. Then next assignment I was on, didn't remember to change it back. That was kind of a bummer.

    On a more constructive level, I think the way to avoid this is having a list of settings to check before each shoot. Suggestions:

    - White balance (if you're not shooting RAW)
    - Metering (spot, matrix..)
    - ISO (duh)
    - JPG or RAW (and quality)
    - Aperture and shutter speed (in case perhaps you used some extreme settings)
    - Any other suggestions...?

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    @Bram: Also bracketing settings. My D70 was remembering where you have stopped... then when you have an unfinished bracketing session, the next time you use your camera you may get under/over exposed..

    On my D7K you can also get caught by the remote control settings. (first click to rise the mirror instead of fire it)

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    bjrichus said:

    So.... back to the title of this post... "Have YOU ever done this?"

    Not yet, because using high ISO is something I don't easily do so I usually reset it after the shots - but I'm sure it is only a matter of time.

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    spraynpray said:
    Not yet, because using high ISO is something I don't easily do so I usually reset it after the shots - but I'm sure it is only a matter of time.

    Think I said this a few weeks ago, but part of my work time is spent shooting pictures for my employer (I am a staffer at a university), that mostly go online and into university communications documents (magazines etc). Anyway... We are always on the look out for something other than the classic boring group of 3 people smiling at the camera or formal head-shots of senior people - we have thousands of those.

    The university president was doing an open Q&A session that was indoors that I took a bunch of shots at. To avoid being too intrusive and disruption, I prefer not to use a flash at these kind of events, hence the higher ISO. The next day, on my way home from doing something else entirely I found that Hearse in question and made the boo-boo.

    :)

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    I think it is a lot easier to do this when you are just out and about and not doing a real setting shoot. Meaning like for me I take my camera when I am out for work, but since I am not set on a certain subject or shooting condition I don't usually preset the settings. However if you are obviously setting up for a portrait shoot or something you would have different steps to go through getting everything setup for that type of shooting which would probably catch these type of things. Know what I mean?

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    tcole1983 said:
    I think it is a lot easier to do this when you are just out and about and not doing a real setting shoot. Meaning like for me I take my camera when I am out for work, but since I am not set on a certain subject or shooting condition I don't usually preset the settings. However if you are obviously setting up for a portrait shoot or something you would have different steps to go through getting everything setup for that type of shooting which would probably catch these type of things. Know what I mean?

    If only they would invent cameras with a preset scene mode dial! ;-)

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    I find exposure compensation gets me more than ISO, although I've messed up ISO a few times too. I'm also finding I have to relearn good 'resetting' habits for when I carry two bodies - I get confused about where I left what set to whatever.

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    SkintBrit said:
    If only they would invent cameras with a preset scene mode dial! ;-)

    That is actually a great idea and I would actually find that far more handy then the preset scene modes.

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    I had my camera on ISO 10000 once on a shoot . . . didn't notice even in post processing until I wanted it printed it billboard size. Still looked amazing. Reason #4526 why the D3s kicks @ss

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    @Segura: ISO 10K?.

    As far I remember, I also got kit by forgetting changes in exposure compensation on my Flash...(SB800)

    I use a lot a CP filter for outdoor photography... Also something you need to remember to change/remove when you do indoor photography..

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    I've done this with the Auto-Bracketing feature. Set it to shoot three pictures, first one being underexposed. I forgot to turn it off and then later I shot a single frame s when I looked at it on the computer it's 2 stops under... -.-

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    Yep just did it yesterday....ARRRRHHH. Well I admit I normally shoot at ISO 200 for most stuff but yesterday I was at the aquarium and of course low light, all a flash does is reflect off the glass. Then they had a butterfly exhibit outside, needless to say oops I forgot to change the settings and I have a few uh "interesting" butterflies.

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