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Think you’re the only photographer that makes mistakes? No way! Chelsea & Tony give five of the most common mistakes they think photographers make and offer suggestions for how to prevent making them again!
2:30 someone has been watching too much Vegetable Police lately hahah. "Why'd you do it." the golden catchphrase of Camera Conspiracies.
Im surprised to see 'watching videos like these' is not on the list. I have seen more (deliberate) misinformation, just plain wrong information, half-baked conclusions, incorrect technical descriptions, poorly devised scientific testing, completely unfair comparisons, biased opinions, and so on, than correct, sound, fair, unbiased, etc., information that is actually helpful in general on YT. The photography genre/segment is particularly polluted, filled with thousands of megalomaniac, self-proclaimed experts that seem to only have rudimentary knowledge on camera technologies and artistic techniques. Nothing says failed/failing photography career more than putting your name to a how to photography book.
Just arrived on the set of a shoot to realize I forget the case with all my flashes at home …
Never over edited. Probably due to mot having any good editing programs.
"That's not to say that people who are full of themselves aren't amazing photographers (lowkey gestures toward Tony)… " 😂 Love you guys.
You guys are awesome! Thank you!
Last time I setted up everything for a nice longtime exposure. I focused aaaaand pressed the shutter… Waited for 5min and afterwards recognized that I forgot to put on my ND Filter
Why is this vidoe "so" blurry?
on my 1440p monitor everything is nice but this vid isn´t sharp. Same for you?
When you are the best and know everything makes it very difficult to progress because there is no where to go!
So… are all of your videos going to have ads halfway through from now on?
Reviewing images during shoot but not to really check exposure. Specifically in sport photography.
Oh how I remember about self esteem. Back in the days of film a friend showed me a picture he had taken of his cat with a cheap camera.. He proudly showed me the developed picture and I said "Yes it's nice but it is a bit over exposed." It was a black cat and the front of the cat was completely blown out with the flash.
"Oh" he said, "Suddenly you are an expert photographer. Over exposed! Do you even know what that means?" No I didn't know exactly what that meant but he was so completely unpleasant that the friendship died because that was his attitude to everything he did. That was getting on for 40 years ago and it still stings to remember his attitude to polite criticism. I was no expert , my pictures probably were not any better, but I was trying to help.
Nice HP Spectre Tony, have the same one. Lol
Exposure compensation, 2-second timer, 10-second timer, ISO sky-high… Yep, been there. 🙂
"Overdone editing" is the eye of the beholder. Some people love "over-the-top" HDR and edit every single image that way. Some people aim for the 100% natural end result. So what you call overdone editing is what the other was going for…
First photo shoot I had my settings were sooo off. Pictures turned out decent, but I actually hated them. Worst work I have ever done
At one time or another I have been guilty of all these. But number 1 and 2 are me to a T. Especially number 1. For years I never liked any of my shots. But over the past year I have started to really like some of my shots. I think there are two reasons for this. One is I have been working on my low self esteem. Two, and this is been mentioned by others about my photography, is my photography is improving. Finally getting shots that are good enough for me to like them. Thanks for all the free content. You guys rock.
4:37 Hi Tony, we went to the Highlands in Scotland and I forgot my Battery Charge so I ordered one on Amazon Prime and it was delivered 2 days later to the lodge we were staying in.
Not re-setting WB!
Confident or not, there's slim to little chance of ever being "the best", you first have to assume you're objectively better than at least 6 billion people, and secondly, it's a matter of taste, so even if somehow you can rank yourself objectively amongst that many people, there's quite a bit of wiggle room. That's a losing game, Tony kinda hit the nail on the head – just enough confidence to continue, and not so much you stop trying to advance.
Tony “the camera whisper”
I think 3 has been my most common mess up…
I would be afraid that I would rip the open card doot off, but I've worked out a pretty good strategy for not forgetting something vital over the years and, another good reason for dual card slots, I always leave one card in, I have USB chargers all over the pace, even one permanently based in the US.
Shutter speed is one of the most frustrating, having no card is one thing, but remembering everything else and messing up a good shot, that's just horrific!
I love a bit of overcooking now and then! 😀
# 1 mistake I make…is not shooting enough. I’m to busy. I’ll have to stop the car and turn around and/or get out of car. My wife will roll her eyes because she turns around and I’m squatting on the ground shooting a bug. EXCUSES ALL! Just get out and shoot!
I have the latest update for Lightroom CC but it will not allow me to import my cr2 files from my Canon 77d
can u plz help me.