Let’s talk about mistakes. Of those fatal mistakes that make you want to scream when you see them, those irretrievable mistakes, those mistakes that neither San Photoshop, nor San Lightroom, nor San or Santa, nothing can fix them. Typical mistakes that happened to us a thousand times because we had no idea, for pushing ourselves, not thinking, to let the camera decide for us, for a thousand and one reasons, you learn from your mistakes, but if we can help you save the strange photo by knowing them beforehand. don’t try??
1. What a photo with the previous day’s settings:
- Yesterday you were taking pictures.
- It was late.
- So there wasn’t much light.
- So you increased the ISO of your camera.
- You thought: better to have less definition than to lose these images.
- You didn’t want to know anything about the flash.
- Today is today.
- A bright sun.
- More fascinating images.
- Magnificent close-ups.
- At lightning speed.
- You want to open the diaphragm because you want less depth of field but you see that the speed of your camera has reached the maximum possible.
- Is that possible.
- Questions?You stop.
- Think.
- Look.
- And turn to ISO 1.
- 600!Goodbye definition.
- Goodbye to these portraits in perfect lighting conditions!.
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2. Shoot at low resolution to increase capacity
You might think, “Well, I’m going to take some minor pictures of my friends on the beach” or “Am I just going to photograph a family meal?”Or thousands of other situations you may not care about. Event, any opportunity is a candidate to be a beautiful image, so never lower the resolution of your images, on the contrary, if you can, take photos in RAW, they will occupy 10 times more, but you will always start from the best possible image If they do not convince you, you can always lower the resolution to store them, but you can never increase it later if you start from a low resolution.
3. Leave home without charged batteries:
And I’m not just talking about yours? Photography requires being quite methodical, at least in terms of equipment, going out without recharging the batteries (I speak in the plural because having more than one is a great investment) can leave you?in the middle of any place with no possibility of doing anything but regrets. In this case, you won’t even have a chance to kill any other photo, because you won’t even be able to take them.
4. Leave the house without emptying the memory card
Same idea as forgetting the batteries downloaded at home but with a terrible dilemma: erase the photos from the memory card without having them or looking at them on the computer, or running out of photos from the moment you wanted to photograph?Both are terrible choices, so a good way to avoid it is:
5. Dirty or scratched lens (or filter):
A few drops, a little scratch, a few specks of dust. . . Everything influences the final result of a photograph. It is important that before you start taking them, check the status of your optics / filter, because through the viewfinder it is very difficult to notice these small defects of dirt, but the quality of your photograph can be affected.
6. Do not hold the camera properly
They say quite correctly that this is where you start, learning to hold the camera correctly will help you gain stability when shooting and, therefore, get sharp images without unwanted movements (produced from your camera and not from what you intend to represent) .
7. Do not control the background:
Sometimes it is difficult to control everything that happens when you take photos, light, framing, speed, aperture, ISO . . . besides predicting anything that might happen in front of you when you press the shutter button. But the truth is that you absolutely have to control all the framing, how many times you have focused on your protagonist and have not noticed that someone is approaching from the right on the left, or behind the protagonist, and just when you took the photo, a half-face, an arm, a foot?And a lot of times you don’t even realize it until you see them on your computer. You can trim but this will no longer be the frame you thought you could remove it?Intruder in post-processing, but it will depend on the complexity of the background. So, before you pull the trigger, should you be aware of any intrusions into your frame?
8. Use the optical zoom of the camera
I’m sorry, forbidden, that would be great when you go without your SLR or don’t have one, but today’s results are pretty horrible, so if you want that image closer, act like you would with a fixed focal length: move, otherwise the image quality will be significantly affected.
9. Do you believe that? Am I going to fix it with my editor ?:
Many times, thanks to the invaluable help of photo editors, are we tempted to think?So I rethink it, I give it more contrast, I’ll darken the sky, won’t I?Ideally, if you want to learn real photography, worry, long before you pull the trigger and exit the editor for small details or adjustments. If a photo is based on what you’ve raised, the adjustments you’ll make will be to improve it, if you feel like you need it. If the settings you make afterwards are image, the quality will be profoundly affected. Have you tried, an image that is too underexposed, have you seen the noise increase, how it reflects colors, so you know what I mean?It’s better to start from a good base.
10. Red eyes
Red eyes occur in situations where there is not too much light, because the pupil of the person you want to photograph is dilated and more prone to the dreaded red eyes. There are ways to try to fix this problem before this happens, so you don’t have to rely on editors at all times:
11. Light measurement errors:
Many times, if we get carried away by the measurements of the camera photometer, we are disappointed, especially in scenes with a lot of contrast or strong lights, since it is in these situations where the photometer?find the right exposure, as light or lack of light deceives you easily. To do this, it is important to help the photometer find the right measurement, either by giving it a neutral gray to start with or by telling it exactly where to measure. Thus, you can avoid the following errors that are very common in photography:
12. Focus Errors
Not all situations require the same kind of focus, photographing a flower in a studio is not the same as photographing a game of volleyball on the beach, or the hustle and bustle of a market at sunset, many times we chose it based on the movement of What we were photographing We have two types of focus: manual and automatic, for very different situations , so it is important to be clear about the situation before us to choose between the two possibilities:
Auto focus: for moving scenes or when you are not looking through the viewfinder or screen what you are photographing (self-portraits, angles over your head, etc. ). In general, SLR cameras have the following autofocus options, each for different purposes:
All approaches have their advantages, but they can become disadvantages if you don’t choose the right one for each situation.
Manual focus: situations that do not require speed, because what you want to photograph does not move or is controllable (portraits, low lighting, macros?)
The most common approach errors are
13. Built-in flash:
To use it correctly you have to take into account certain factors, such as the distance that reaches its halo of light or the hardness of it, has as many advantages as it has, even if you have to know it thoroughly. are some of the drawbacks and errors associated with them:
If you have come to the conclusion that you need an external one, I recommend you take a look at this article.
14. Boring images
All images must contain at least one approach that should be highlighted using composition, light, lines, or perspective. Avoid images that don’t explain anything, flat and without points of interest. Almost all images can be interesting, move, test different angles, take and look for originality. Don’t just focus on the subject of your environment, look for something different and surprising.
15. Shaky images:
Few things are worse than looking at an image that should be almost fantastic, but that this is not due to a very small mistake like motion blur, it is worse than seeing one of your desperately bad photos, the ones you throw away without hesitation. When it’s almost perfect, but it’s worthless, for so little, but it’s worthless?It’s really crazy! For this reason, it is important that you are familiar with your camera’s lighting situations and aperture and speed settings, as well as ISO. If you’re not consciously looking for movement, don’t take any chances and be sure to take pictures at a certain speed. enough to clearly freeze the image that captivated you.
16. Delete the image before viewing it on the computer
Never, if it is not entirely justified that the photograph was taken and photographed a foot and a piece of asphalt, never erase the images before seeing them at home with total serenity, it is difficult on the small screen to know their sharpness, their Focus, their color, etc. Sometimes the one who seems to be a candidate worthy of going to the trash is the best you’ve got. And yet, can you imagine you’re distraught, you put on the autopilot and you’re going to give it?Okay, okay, yes, delete, and you realize you erased them all?I wouldn’t risk it, that sometimes the extremely finger mind plays very bad tricks.
17. Excessive image retouching:
I think it’s a phase that we’ve all been through, we like to try new things, filters, gradients, noise, contrast, saturation, smoothing and we like to see these changes exaggeratedly, no one says you can ‘Don’t do it, but if you want photographs that reflect reality as an end in itself, you’ll see how useless these effects are, make them artificial and unreal. Of course, does this go to tastes, phases and fashions?
18. Do not keep the original of the photograph
If you have decided to retouch an image always remember to keep the original, the tweaks that you find wonderful today, maybe tomorrow they look horrible, or maybe you would like to recover that color image that you decided to change to black and white.
19. Do not save photos:
We’re already talking about murders of biblical proportions, and also surely images that had managed to emerge unscathed from the thousands of possible mistakes that were chasing them?
Make copies regularly, never trust yourself because your computer is new or because you have the best version on the market, always make copies of your photos, losing them is dramatic and recovering them (if possible) an expense that you can make perfectly without a certain methodology, it costs nothing to do, but not doing so will be disastrous.
20. Delete photos directly from the computer
The best way to make sure the photos have been imported correctly is to make sure of them yourself, if you delete them from your computer and for some reason they weren’t saved properly, you won’t be able to recover them easily (or never So tell your computer no, you’ll take them out of the camera yourself once you’ve verified that every image is where they should be , it’s 30 seconds more work and you’ll make sure you don’t lose them along the way.
You learn from mistakes (if I told you?), But there are mistakes and mistakes, right? Some are considered errors because they are contrary to what is called? or established. In that case, would you rescind? Error? well, in quotes, because in photography and in art in general there are many interpretations. Do you often take it out of the box and play with it? Mistakes? creatively, it can give you excellent results. But there is a crucial difference with the previous type of error: the 20 situations above are situations that you don’t want, you did not use the error for creative purposes; rather, it is the mistake that has used you for no other purpose than to make your image unsurpassed. So try to take them into account before, during and after any session, sure that some of them slip away from time to time, but eh, little by little? Or better, let’s look at it from another angle. The more mistakes you have made than the previous ones, the more proud you will be of yourself, because it means that you have persevered, that you have gained experience and learning, maybe you have been somewhat traumatized with someone, but you managed it. move on? So keep it up, less and less will be left on your “to-do list. “
What if it were helpful to you, if you felt you were identifying with someone, if you think you can help save photos or prevent them from committing another ‘murder’, or maybe someone you know?Do you like it? Thanks a lot!