Tuesday, May 27, 2014

05-27-2014 - Epic Fail

So I'm traveling to Europe and India in July.  After shooting with a Canon 40D for years, I used the upcoming travel as the perfect excuse to upgrade my equipment.  I had the Canon 40D operations down pretty well but this new camera (Canon 5D) has a bunch of features that I need to learn before I really need them.  

Since I got the camera I've spent all my free time trying to learn the functions and on the weekend go out to test them.  This past Saturday Anita decided to join me for a photo walk in downtown San Antonio.  Even though it rained off and on we had a very relaxing time wondering around and taking photos.  After about four hours in we decided to stop only because the rain got intense.  We were both very excited to see what we had captured.  

We get home, download the photos from the camera, and I see a lot of digital noise in the first image.  Same in the second.  Hmmm.  Something isn't right here.  That would most likely happen if my ISO was really high but I keep it set on 100 all the time...wait...there was the birthday of the friend's daughter...under that pavilion...with no flash...I had to crank up the ISO...oh crap!  And that folks is how you make four hours of junk.  The look on my face had to be priceless.  

The morale of the story is to always check your ISO, aperture, and shutter speed.  Always!