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Practice Your Routine

Posted on 05 June 2009 by D. Travis North

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I have an underlying theme in a lot of what I preach:  Routine.  Routine helps you to stay consistent and to evolve through subtle tweaks in your routine.  So of all people, I should not be the one getting burned by breaking routine.  Yesterday, I was shooting some construction equipment at a site near my office.  I was shooting in Aperture Priority mode, or so I thought.  Turns out, my camera was in Manual mode from the previous session.  So for the first fifteen shots, I didn’t realize that the shutter speed was not automatically adjusting.  I inadvertantly wasted those 15 shots and the time it took to create them.  Good thing I wasn’t on film.

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About the Author: D. Travis North

D. Travis North is a professional Landscape Architect, a Freelance Photographer and founder of Shutter Photo. Travis likes to photograph urban environments, architectural details and has a new-found interest in close-up photography. His work can be found at D. Travis North Photography. Follow Travis on twitter: @dtnorth.

 
  • I assume you mean white balance. I personally shoot RAW, so that doesn't come into play. But anyhow...

    It's important to have a default mode. For me, it's Aperture priority mode, 100 ISO, center weighted focus, Auto Focus and so on. It's my default. My mistake was not following my defaults. I easily wasted twenty minutes. AS I said, I should know better.

    Learn from my mistakes.
  • This happens to me too often. I'm just not used to changing my settings too often. Recently, I had my white noise on flourencent, but was shooting outside.

    I just didn't work out...................:(

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