Don't do what I did...

[jeffnles1]

I was shooting photos of a duck on a lake that was strongly backlit so I dialed in some +EV (about 1.3). Yes, I forgot to reset it back and 5 bucks walked out into the field. I was able to salvage a few shots but straight out of camera, this is what I was looking at.

Moral to the story: Always remember to dial it back. Don't do a "stupid Jeff trick." You never know when a great shot will present itself.

Jeff (of stupid Jeff trick fame).

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[txstone]

Thanks for takin one for the team, Jeff!

 

[JSD]

You are not alone. It’s been done before and will be done again

 

[Steve]

Been there, done that - and repeated it more than I care to admit!
If those are RAW, I'll bet you can save 'em. It's close, but + 1.3EV is right on the edge for many cameras.

 

[Charles Loy]

Oh, several times a year I do this. And it does no good to stand in front of a mirror and give myself a good talking to

 

[gordon_g]

Guilty here... the good news... the deer is well lit! nice and brite

 

[Woodyg3]

LOL. If you haven't done that, you can't be in the Official DSLR Users club. Then there's the times I've turned the dial the opposite of the direction I intended...

 

[jeffnles1]

Been there, done that - and repeated it more than I care to admit!
If those are RAW, I'll bet you can save 'em. It's close, but + 1.3EV is right on the edge for many cameras.

The RAW's were more or less salvageable. The jpgs well.... glad I shoot raw + jpg.

 

[FB101]

Launching a new technique? ETFTTR (exposure too far to the right)... Glad to hear you could salvage the RAWs. Looking forward to the rescued shots.

 

[jeffnles1]

Launching a new technique? ETFTTR (exposure too far to the right)... Glad to hear you could salvage the RAWs. Looking forward to the rescued shots.

Here is one of the rescued shots. It's not as clean as I would have liked, certainly not going in my "whitetail buck portfolio" but given it was shot on Christmas Day morning, I'll keep a couple of these on the hard drive for future reference.

I like your ETFTTR idea. I may be a trendsetter!

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[bsinc1962]

Been there, done that, will probably do it again.

 

[Warren D]

Too late, already have. Knowing me, I'll probably do it again....several times.

 

[Woody Meristem]

I've done that more times than years in my age -- which is considerable. The salvaged image is pretty good.

 

[IainD]

Just did a similar thing with my F5, set to manual and forgot to check metering with a few quick shots. Probably the film will come back with nothing at all!

 

[jeffnles1]

Just did a similar thing with my F5, set to manual and forgot to check metering with a few quick shots. Probably the film will come back with nothing at all!

if the shots were special I sure do hope they come back with something you can salvage

 

[IainD]

Thanks Jeff, but like most of my work it is most likely rubbish!

 

[jeffnles1]

Thanks Jeff, but like most of my work it is most likely rubbish!

something tells me you're being modest.

 

[JANuser]

I think we've all done this at least a few times, make that a dozen times.

 

[Charlie Lasswell]

Are there people who don't do this and if so, are they weird in other ways too?

 

[Ian]

Guilty as charged M'lud. Whats worse I use a mirrorless even less of an excuse.

 

[Squawk]

There's quite a few people who have never had this problem. They've no idea what that little +/- button is for. I had one guy with perfecly decent kit complain about his exposure and was amazed when I explained what it did. I have a mantra "dial it back" that I say out loud and still fail to do it over and over.

 

[Peter in Boulder]

The one that gets me is the switch between stabilization modes on the lens. The combination of a physical button that doesn't revert on it's own, being a button on the lens vs. the camera, and the fact that you can't tell the difference between full stabilization and panning stabilization when reviewing shots on the back of the camera is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Nature Man]

Yep, a much too common error for me, and it always happens when an unexpected shot appears.

 

[Strodav]

If you are a serious photographer, you have done this and probably more than once. As others have mentioned, a very good reason to shoot raw, or at least raw + jpg. I have a long list of other things I have forgot to reset like AF mode, metering mode, VR on a lens, ...

 

[Snapshot2020]

I have failed to reset EV Comp a few times though there’s a 50/1 chance that VR Switch doesn’t get turned back on after removing the Camera off the Tripod.