This week's post comes as a bit of lesson, a reminder or tip if you will. It's not breakthrough, just a basic, fundamental reminder ...
TIP: When you are using any of the 'AUTO" options on your camera, remember to keep an eye on what values these auto modes are setting, you may find them unacceptable, or you might have accidentally switched out of an auto mode altogether.
The back-story:
I'd
been working to fixate less on the technical aspects when out shooting
and just let myself react more to the scenes in front of me. I may have become a little too reliant on the camera to take care of
the exposure settings, at least on my causal walks. I
didn't pay enough attention and some otherwise decent images from a wonderful outing in the
misty morning woods suffered :-/
I have my Canon EOS M5 set up by default to use Auto ISO. The camera also has a customizable "Dial Function Button" on top of the body at the right side. I've had ISO set as one of the options for this button as a quick way to make adjustments when in manual mode. Why are these details significant? Well, on more than on occasion I have managed to bump this DF Button, changing ISO a 'notch", which happened to be from Auto ISO to ISO 25,600. I'm not sure if I did this accidentally with my thumb while adjusting exposure compensation (the dial beside it) or in just general handling of the camera as I walk around with it slung over my shoulder. Somehow it happened and I didn't notice when I was out in the bush one morning to capture some wonderful light.
As expected, the resulting photos suffer greatly from noise and poor detail but I decided to see to what extent I could salvage them with Topaz DeNoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI. They are nowhere near printing standards, but almost make passable images at web resolution and I'm hopeful that publishing this post will help me remember to check camera settings more often while I'm out shooting.
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| glowing leaves |
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| a forest trail |
Note to self: Don't fixate but also don't forget to watch your exposure settings
DJE
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DeleteCheers!
Doug