Mu boss will kill me [Archive] - Canon Digital Photography Forums

vvizard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 05:26

This is probably my last day alive.. So please, I'm making up my will now, I got a 10D, a 70-200mm f/2.8EX, a 50mm 1.4 USM and a 1GB Microdrive.. The first to reply will get his name in my testament :-P

We had this fairly big PR-stunt at work last night, with our boss giving away stuff for several hundred $$$Â*to two customers. He was about to shoot the winners and our staff with this crappy use-once-throw-away cameras. I was thinking of beeing nice, so I offered him to shoot them with my 10D instead. So I put it to "P", and told "aim at subject, halfpress, compose, fullpress". So he did.. I got home, loaded the pictures in Photoshop, and... well, now I'm writing this... Theese pics are soooo fu**** beyond USM-recovery that I probably either have to flee the country, or show them to my boss and get fired / killed.

The idi... boss, was shooting two people standing next to each other. The camera was set to center-point AF, and what do he do? Of course, he aims the center-point straight between the two people, onto a wall about 60 feet behind them and fires.. He managed to do that on about 10 different shots.. Out of 10 in total :-P I'm dead, I just haven't stopped breathing yet :/

defordphoto

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 05:31

I'll bring flowers to your grave. ;) Can't recover OOF'd photos.

Cadwell

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 05:31

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Just goes to prove the point that there's more to taking a good photo than just having good equipment....

nosquare2003

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 05:41

Did he view the LCD screen to shoot? Hmm, no way to recover that...

vvizard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 06:01

View LCD-screen? I didn't want to "overwelhm" him with modern technology.. I thought "aim at subject, halfpress, compose, fullpress" would be sufficient even for grandmother!

ron chappel

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 06:01

oooouch.
Very sorry to hear it ,i really feel for you.Yes,you're dead :cry:
There is indeed no recovery from that.Definitely not the time to mention back up cameras (hello throwaway cammie,oops did i say that? :lol: )

Did you really want to work at this place...?

IanD

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 06:10

Excuses for FUBAR photos...

1) "Boss...you had your finger over the sensor lazer, I TOLD you not to do that.
2) These pictures are in perfect focus....your glasses need cleaning.
3) Have you seen your doctor about those cataracts?
4) Geez...you broke my camera...now you have to replace it with a MK II
:lol: :lol:

Cadwell

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 06:16

vvizard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 07:41

Hilarious! I was actually thinking of the much duller solution of tracking up the customers, breaking into the shop at night, and reshoot :P But the MK-II Option sounds like a much better solution =D

And to answer another question.. No I rather knock myself to death with a Nikon Coolpix than working in this shop for a long amount of time. But part-time work alongside school isn't easy to get, so I'll just have to stick with it until my own company starts generating some cash. So who's in need for webdevelopment and/or hosting? ;)

PacAce

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 07:47

Yeah, the same thing happened when I gave my 10D to my sister-in-law to take a picture of my wife in her graduation gown and me. The background came out crystal clear but my wife and I were total blurs beyound repair. :(

So, the moral of the lesson is, the next time I give my camera to someone to take a picture of me, make sure I set it to the never used "green box" setting first.

See, now we all know why Canon put those "basic mode" settings on the 10D, right? :mrgreen:

IndyJeff

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 08:44

vvizard you have just learned the first lesson of letting someone else use your camera. Next time do what I do, focus on the one subject, show them what button to push and hand the camera off and then step into the picture.

I too would go for option # 4 from above.

vvizard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 08:55

Will it stand up in court? :-P I can show them hundreds of crystal-clear pictures taken (with the 50mm) before the "boss-accident", and just buy the most cheapish third-party-zoom available, knock it into the floor some times, just hard enough to "re-adjust" the focus-motors, but without breaking the glass, and show them the before->after comparison ;)

Nothing like the smell of an MK-II in the morning ;)

defordphoto

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 09:11

Mmmmmm yes!

By the way, what exactly is a Mu Boss?

Lisard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 09:15

I vowed never ever to ask anyone to take our family photo! :twisted: Last time we made a stupid mistake to take Drebel to Disney on family vacation. Take a wild guess what was on focus on ALL photos bein taken "experienced" Disney stuff? Next time I am going to take my old good G1. It fits in the poket and dummy proof.

Belmondo

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 09:23

Mmmmmm yes!

By the way, what exactly is a Mu Boss?

That's Norwegian for "Nasty man, devoid of humor, with absolute power to hire and fire arbitrarily." :(

FWIW, if I'm handing the camea to someone else to use (rare event) I will usually put it in full auto mode and let them snap away. Unless they're holding it backwards, they've got at least a 50% chance of getting somthing.

sjprg

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 09:24

Before you give up completely, try a trial version of Focus Magic on the blurs. www.focusmagic.com

GenEOS

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 09:25

For future reference, whenever handing your camera to the boss it will require you to set the camera to one of the idiot modes.

Never trust your boss with your gear.

morenoar

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 10:00

I understand about having someone else take a picture for you. When in Japan, I too did the same thing. Set it for manual, focused on a particulare point (center focus). Asked a nice person to take the photo for me so I can be in the picture. OK, after 3 times (he kept pressing the timer), I took the camera and set it to AUTOMATIC. But before I did that, I took the battery out and replaced it with a new one. Did not want to make him feel bad. This person still was able to MESS up the shot.

#4 excuse sounds like the winner to me.

MediaMagic

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 10:16

Mmmmmm yes!

By the way, what exactly is a Mu Boss?

I think that's a boss wearing half a huge robe-like dress thingie?

vvizard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 10:31

Here's a lot of answers for many questions..

Mu Boss is nothing more exotic than a spelling-error for "My Boss" ;)

I _DID_ set it to dummy-mode.. "P" is as dummy as it get's.. Green square is just.. unpredictable :-P

Focus-magic ehh? Well I don't believe in magic.. And neither will you if you if you knew how the pics looked ;) If they'd been just a tiny tad more out of focus, the topic of this post would've been a completely different. Namely: "WHOLY CRAP! I GOT SENSOR DUST THE SIZE OF HUMAN BEEINGS!!" Cam shot at f/2.8, and focus was at the far-end wall of our store, a good 60 feet behind the subjects.. That'll need some _serious_ magic to work ;)

Apologize? hmm.. I've heard attack is the best defense, so maybe I'll take the route: "YOU GOT SURPRISED THAT YOU COULD SEE THE SHOT ON THE LCD? You didn't happen to notice there where no subjects on it, but just a blurish kind of FOG DID YOU???"

If it doesn't work, at least I can show him the shots I took in the store just to see how bright the light there is. it's helluva lot better than in my living-room at least :) Got 1/500 @ iso-100 on f/1.4.. Hey, don't be mad, look at those nice shots of your store, can't you use them for.... christmas-cards this year? :-P

KO_300D

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 10:32

Lessons learned from this experience;

1/ Nobody, that's NOBODY but the owner operates the camera.
(I'd put a 'no touchy' label on mine but everyone who knows me knows better than to even attempt pick it up...)

2/ ALWAYS trust your tripod and self-timer over your boss.

Now to get out of this one... tell him straight;
"Chief, you messed up. Now the only thing you can do to rectify this issue is to get those poor customers back here for a re-shoot. I will be kind enough to offer my equipment again in these circumstances... however I'll be taking the shots this time. Now, can I get you a coffee?...."

robertwgross

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 12:25

It just proves:
"There is a fool who can overcome any foolproof scheme."

---Bob Gross---

defordphoto

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 12:46

Mu Boss is nothing more exotic than a spelling-error for "My Boss" ;)

Well crap. We were having so much fun with that. That Norwegian thing just cracked me up.

CyberDyneSystems

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 12:49

It just proves:
"There is a fool who can overcome any foolproof scheme."

---Bob Gross---

Ahh,. yes

Another age old quote applies as well

"No good deed goes unpunished"

CyberDyneSystems

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 12:51

Mu Boss is nothing more exotic than a spelling-error for "My Boss" ;)

Well crap. We were having so much fun with that. That Norwegian thing just cracked me up.

Yost You wait Yimmy! Yo ban get a beating yo wontsk forgetsk!

Lutefisjk anyone! :roll: :wink:

//if I was one of these asccii hacker guys that new how to put an "umlat" in there,. it would have been filled with them :mrgreen:

vvizard

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 12:56

Lutefisjk anyone! :roll: :wink:

Almost =) It's pronnounced "Lutefisk" :) (and it taste like crap!)

KO_300D

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 14:30

lingue strani che non capisco...

penso andrÃ² parlare alla bambina

Cadwell

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 14:37

Almost =) It's pronnounced "Lutefisk" :) (and it taste like crap!)

Mmmm... nice! You're still posting so you obviously survived the day. Did the boss forgive you or are you just avoiding him in some sort of vain hope that he's gonna forget all about it? :P

CyberDyneSystems

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 14:41

Lutefisjk anyone! :roll: :wink:

Almost =) It's pronnounced "Lutefisk" :) (and it taste like crap!)

lol,. never tried it myself,. the "j" was in leu of the acsii accents I can't seem to muster.... you know like "Bjorn..."

//ducks for cover... :oops:

J.A.F. Doorhof

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 16:10

Next time make the pictures your self also.
If your boss is a bit human he will not be mad, he could have seen it through the lens himself.

Greetings,
Frank

PS.
Good luck.

NickC

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 16:16

You learn something new here every day.

I never knew what the green box was for :lol:

yenoram

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 18:33

I've had the same thing happen. The next time I handed my camera to someone else I thought I'd play it smart, stop down for better DOF and pre-focus first then switch the lens to manual focus. I then told the guy to exactly where to place his feet and proceeded to get in the picture. I wasn't expecting perfect, razor sharp focus - just a printable 4 x 6. Next thing I know the guy decides he doesn't like my composition and moves ten feet from where I told him to stand and starts fiddling with the zoom ring before taking the shot. Ugh! Now if I want to get in the picture I hand over my wife's G3 in green mode.

jrm

18th of February 2004 (Wed), 23:15

A longshot, but...

was there anyone else at this event taking pictures? It won't save your shots, but if you can get your hands on at least a few replacements you might be able to save your bacon.

mjordan

19th of February 2004 (Thu), 00:24

Here's your perfect chance to show how artistic your camera takes pictures and you want to ruin it by telling him the pictures didn't come out? Throw some grain on there, sephia tone them, then repaint them in some bright colors, print them on canvas, put them behind 2 inches of frosted glass and then...

confess and tell him the lab lost the film.

:D

Mike

ldivinag

19th of February 2004 (Thu), 02:47

tell the boss he forgot to take out the semi transprarent LENS cover... lol.....

defordphoto

19th of February 2004 (Thu), 06:24

confess and tell him the lab lost the film.

:D

Mike

:lol: :lol: :lol:

CyberDyneSystems

19th of February 2004 (Thu), 14:41

confess and tell him the lab lost the film.

:D

Mike

:lol: :lol: :lol:

ROFL!!!! Oh man that is good! :lol: :shock:

vvizard

19th of February 2004 (Thu), 15:06

Update.. I was at work today, but funny, he didn't ask for the photos from my cam, so I didn't mention them either =P But I seem saved anyway =D The good part is that the boss had actually also shot the pics with this use-once-throw-away camera. Guess he don't trust electronics :-P (and certainly never will now). The "other" good part is that I took the pictures of one of the customer (there where two) so "half" the event is covered. Why I couldn't shoot the other half is because I (as an employee) had to be in the shot with that customer.. And those are screwed.. So I'm just crossing my fingers and hope the use-once-blah-blah pics turned out OK. If so my boss might forget my cam, and never ask for the pics :-P If not, then it'll be the "The lab lost my digital negatives :-P"

RichardtheSane

21st of February 2004 (Sat), 07:18

vvizard, you deserve everything you get from your boss for comitting the biggest mortal sin there is, letting someone else use you camera.....

If you repent now then maybe you can be forgiven....

:D :D :D :D

CyberDyneSystems

21st of February 2004 (Sat), 12:40

You gonna let him off that easy Brother Richard? A mere confession for such a heinous sin?

Penance! Punishmnet!

You must lick the contacts of a fully charged BP511 9 times while saying your hail Maries!

You must smear the UV filter mounted on your best "L" lens with Vaseleine.. take self portriats.. do your best workflow on the results and post them here!

Then and only then can you be truly fogiven! :twisted: :twisted:

//ooops I let my religious fervor out in th open again didn't I?

KO_300D

22nd of February 2004 (Sun), 12:15

"smear the UV filter mounted on your best "L" lens with Vaseleine"

AAAAAGH!

A sin to even suggest

oh the nightmares...

richardtallent

22nd of February 2004 (Sun), 23:56

Two-step process to redemption:

1. Sharpen the crud out of them.
2. Resample them down to, oh, 320x240. Almost anything looks sharp if you lower the resolution enough.

kraterz

23rd of February 2004 (Mon), 00:27

Bwahahahahaa!! Rotflmao! That was too good.

Focus-magic ehh? Well I don't believe in magic.. And neither will you if you if you knew how the pics looked ;) If they'd been just a tiny tad more out of focus, the topic of this post would've been a completely different. Namely: "WHOLY CRAP! I GOT SENSOR DUST THE SIZE OF HUMAN BEEINGS!!" Cam shot at f/2.8, and focus was at the far-end wall of our store, a good 60 feet behind the subjects.. That'll need some _serious_ magic to work ;) :roll:

Dawg

23rd of February 2004 (Mon), 14:40

vvizard

With all the help your getting hear you don't need me, so have a nice day.

Dawg :twisted:

ps don't face him break it to him over the phone :)

cgratti

24th of February 2004 (Tue), 00:31