put finger on lens while shooting.
thought to myself "apa ini long black spot???"

1. Shooting range finder with lens cover still attached. Wasted a few films.

2. Shooting using the wrong white balance.

3. Filter on the back pocket of jeans and sat on it.

let me see for me i have done
-shooting landscape under bright sunlight at ISO800
-shooting landscape under bright sunlight at f6
-forgot to change back the setting such as ISO, af-s/af-c...worst still when i on the cam i keep on trying... ei? why can auto focuse geh? then check check... see the switch was at af edi...but why cant focus itself... i thought the motor spoil edi...was so sad coz just bought cam for less than 2 weeks..then after that then only i remember i set the af mode to Manual focus in the camera settings... how stupid was i...

My finger accidentally press on the resolution (short cut) button and took quite a few shots at low resolution.

accidentally shot raw & running low on memory

what kind of metering is more suitable for portrait outdoor shooting under bright sunlight?

depends what....
but definately not spot metering... maybe some case can use spot metering lah.. but till now i never encounter that...
that time i forgotten to change the metering mode and stay at spot metering.. later back home check the photo all overexposed....

by the way is not portrait i shooting.. i am shooting stage event....

If the sun is in the background, meter the sky to get a proper exposure, then use fill flash to brighten up the silhouette of the model.

got this pic from email.might happens.lol

ok ok... got that.

no wonder i got a lot of underexposed subjects when i shoot during a sunny day. still noob with metering stuffs. all these while i just use spot metering only.

3 and 5 are happen alot too me

I've done all of the above, but add these too:

- Shot pix out of focus cause I forgot that the lens was switched to manual mode (ultimate noob mistake!!)

- Shot a race (action shots) and tried to pan with the subject, took 6-7 shots. All except the first, the camera shifted focus to the background! The athletes all out of focus!

When I first started shooting in Manual mode, always forgetting to change my shutter speed and/or aperture and ending up with severely over/underexposed shots.

Went to cameron for shooting, then stayed at hotel, the next day went out, spent 1 hour plus to reach the top(chinese new year), mana tahu battery left at the hotel

I parked my car far place during the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition to snap photos. Walked nearly 2.5km at the camping spot realized forgot load batteries in the camera. Have to run back 2.5km to get batteries

going to the interview with local bands and found out theres no sd card my my cammie

for me it was more like took the canon Point and Shoot and tried to bring viewfinder to my eye, only to remember that there was a 3" lcd screen for composition

i make this mistake as well

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Added on September 13, 2007, 3:45 pmi think this is very common.

last month 1 of my colleague went for photo shooting in FRIM, then he realize he forgot to bring CF card... LOL

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Added on September 13, 2007, 3:46 pmwow !!! this is really bad... 2.5km.

lose weight after the walk?

This post has been edited by philipcs: Sep 13 2007, 03:46 PM

I LOL'ed hard.

Stupid mistakes that I have done:

1) Shot at ISO800 during bright daylight and wondering why was it so grainy
2) Forgot to charge the flash unit batteries especially when covering an indoor event with very low lighting. Had to resort to built in flash.
3) Left my lens cap at my friend's house and thought that I lost it.
4) Forgot to transfer photos out of the memory card.

wow !!! this is hurt !!!