What's The Dumbest Thing You Did Last Year?

I took what I thought were a great shoot full of photos, then got back to upload them into my computer and realized I was at ISO 800 the whole time... Noise city. Fffuuuuu......

Chairman7w wrote in post #9318565
I took what I thought were a great shoot full of photos, then got back to upload them into my computer and realized I was at ISO 800 the whole time... Noise city. Fffuuuuu......

Arg!! Been there, done that!

Going for days wondering why my flash wasn't going off right. I ended up with blown out photos, other variations of the flash not going off right and sometimes not flashing at all. Couple of weeks later I went looking for my circular polarizer filter and could not find it. Come to find out it was on my lens the whole time, solved the flash problem!

I got into this very expensive hobby. whoops. heh

Same

I bumped my 30D off the edge of a 4 foot tall counter onto my toe and would not function, probably broke the shutter or something like that. Good news though I was able to sell it broken on ebay (the guy bought it for repair) for $300 USD and got a great deal on a 40D and I love the new features and faster frame rate and autofocus.

Too many to list, but here's one...

Did a pregnancy shoot for a friend and uploaded them to my external hard drive only, no backup. Used the same flash cards the next day for a wedding, tried downloading all 16 gigs of wedding photos onto the external HD, crashed the hard drive. That was her only pregnancy shoot, the baby is now 3 months old, and she still doesn't have any pictures.

Had a shoot scheduled in a park. Decided after packing all my equipment I would go to Lowe's and buy a wagon so I wouldn't have to carry the equipment. Got to the park. Loaded all my equipment onto the wagon. Felt proud of myself for being smart enough to get the wagon to lug my lights,reflectors,Vega​bond, and camera bag.

Then I realized I had left my camera bag on my kitchen table 20 miles away.

Planned on taking some good astrophotog pics out in the middle of BFE, about 50 miles away since I live in the middle of the city (to get rid of light pollution). Pack my tripod, camera, bag, made sure I packed my battery and it was charged, mem card, etc. Get to the desired location, bust out the tripod... top mount piece of the tripod was left at home on my kitchen counter. The whole shoot was a bust. At best I could get some decent pictures of the moon.. doh!

Bought a new flash when the batteries started to die fast. Later realized that the batteries were dying themselves. I haven't checked yet, but I bet the original flash would still work fine if I inserted the new batteries in.

Changed a memory card in such a hurry that I threw the full one on the ground intending to pick it up before we left...
It survived a night in a wet paddock and a morning frost but I had quite a sleepless night.

Persephone wrote in post #9354036
Bought a new flash when the batteries started to die fast. Later realized that the batteries were dying themselves. I haven't checked yet, but I bet the original flash would still work fine if I inserted the new batteries in.

Nothing wrong with two flashes. I wish I had three.

I got pissed at a mall cop that was doing his job as he saw it and gave him a raft of crap as he escorted me to the door. I still don't think he really gets paid to escort people out for having a big camera, especially in a mall that has a really big camera store, but I must have caught him after he had some trouble with another photographer or something cause he did everything but get pushy with me and I stupidly rose to the bait and got angry with him. Thats stupid thing 1.
Stupid thing 2 was coming home and posting here about it and getting told off by people from three continents about how I probably made it worse for the next photographer and how the guy was just doing his job and all like that. If I saw the guy again, I would apologize. He was just doing his job, maybe a little more, but I should have just walked out nice and easy, he was in his rights and I got caught.
oh, and I walked away from 2 different books I was reading while waiting for animals to show or for good light and left them sitting there while I took pictures and forgot about them until the next day or so. I retreived one, the other is in more responsible hands now.

JeffreyG wrote in post #9354616
Nothing wrong with two flashes. I wish I had three.

I'm sure I'll probably love having a second flash once i get an ST-E2, 7D, or a lighting setup with some triggers.

beichh4046 wrote in post #9351605
Had a shoot scheduled in a park. Decided after packing all my equipment I would go to Lowe's and buy a wagon so I wouldn't have to carry the equipment. Got to the park. Loaded all my equipment onto the wagon. Felt proud of myself for being smart enough to get the wagon to lug my lights,reflectors,Vega​bond, and camera bag.

Then I realized I had left my camera bag on my kitchen table 20 miles away.

lol this is a good one. reminds me of a time i took a 3 hour drive out to take some photos of the sky, grabbed all my gear, grabbed my tripod, got there and realized the quick release plate was on a different camera i had left at home.