So not impressed.....

Last night was my sons grade 8 prom, he goes to high school next year... So they had a little formal dance and everyone got all dressed up and such.. I was so excited.... I finally got the chance to get some pictures of him and his girlfriend together....

Got home from work, got everything set up, checked the lighting, check my gear, did some test pictures.. Thought they looked alittle off cuz of the new lighting and I'm not use to it.....

So his girlfriend gets here, we shoot a bunch of photos in the studio and then go to head outside and get some more..... I noticed again that one of the pictures I took looked off, so I got them to just hang out for a bit and I checked my camera settings............ I had my camera set at an ISO of 1600!!!! What the hellllll............. I was sure I changed it back to 100 when I changed my other settings..... So it was to late to reshoot and off to the school we went and I did get some really nice pictures outside here and at the school with them....

Has anyone else done that before???? I can't beleive that I did something as stupid as that.... I'm gonna try to see if I can fix them with photo shop but they are so blown, I don't think that I'm gonna be able to save them.....

Thanks for letting me vent...............

Guilty.

Was shooting one of the new Police K-9 dogs at a open field. Gorgeous day. Little cold but otherwise bright and sunny. I was shooting the night before and had the ISO maxed out. I felt like a huge dumbass when I got home and got them into Lightroom. Lets just say that I check the ISO often now. Here is the link

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Yep but I always check my aperture and shutter speed in P mode and if they seem out of whack I quickly know its the ISO setting a foot again nothing like it being set to 3200. Also checking the histogram is your best friend it will tell you quickly if your exposure is on or way off if its way right or way left you have issues to solve.

All of us have left wrong ISO dialed in, at different times. They key things you failed to do were to notice the camera's showing you issues with exposure...
like the flashing aperture value or
the flashing shutter speed value or
the histogram with pixels all at the right side of the graph

Learn to LOOK for the visual cues and you can take good exposures even at high ISO in the middle of a sunny day!!! The camera might need to use small apertures along with high shutter speeds, and the pictures might be 'grainy', but they would be well exposed...if you had noticed the indicators.

All the time.

Never had this problem with film.

Does the 1 series cameras come with ISO display in the viewfinder?

Edit: White balance is another common goof up for me.

While I've been caught with this outside in daytime, I'd never get caught with this inside / in studio. In M mode and with flashes, it's hard not to notice your settings.

You're definitely not the first mate!

It rarely happens to me because I think i might have developed a good habit of checking when I switch to M mode. I usually take 1 to 2 shots, review it, then continue shooting. Sometimes when you thought you've changed the ISO, you've actually clicked the 'shoot' button which doesn't accept it as a formal change with the Rebel XT (I think that might be your problem). You actually need to use the navigation button instead. Hope the shoot went well though!

shutterfiend wrote in post #5701556
Does the 1 series cameras come with ISO display in the viewfinder?

As of the 1D2N, I believe, yes. I love having ISO in the viewfinder... Though I really try to keep it at 100.

I have been guilty of this a number of times. This is why Canon needed to pull their heads out like 8 models ago and add ISO TO THE VIEWFINDER ON ALL DSLR's. Sheesh Canon - its just common sense that it would be helpful to have that there.

With Canon though - they add common sense items like this later on down the road and call them 'upgrades' or "great new features". Bleh.

At least with my 40D...if I did manage to leave it in ISO 1600, the pictures would still be usable

guilty. one day recently.. I was thinking "why the hell is the camera using such a high shutter.. wtf.. it's not THAT sunny" I'm used to shooting indoors.. so I had my camera at iso 1600....

Double Negative wrote in post #5701673
As of the 1D2N, I believe, yes.

As off the 1D classic

René Damkot wrote in post #5703919
As off the 1D classic

Indeed, you're right! Didn't think it went back that far.

Not only that, I shot an entire evening of a fund raiser with white balance set on tungsten from a previous shoot. Only I was using a flash! Lots of PP work on that one. Being reminded of one's fallibility grants one a healthy self-perception (unless it happens too often).

Do you have Noise Ninja? If not, I'd highly suggest downloading it. It will go a long way in saving your images.