I know it's counterintuitive, but one of the biggest components of becoming a better photographer is
making a lot of mistakes
It's failing a lot people don't want to talk about it people don't want to admit if they don't want to say
Sometimes I suck, but we all suck sometimes
Tony and I are gonna tell you about our suckiest moments. Okay, can I start I have left the house without
batteries or memory cards or either
over and over and over again
I've done that before. I've driven all the way to a location with every other piece of gear packed up and ready to go
multiple lenses, a plan in my mind,
No memory card
Break my heart. The diopter
Sometimes it'll get hit in my bag
And then I'll hold the camera up and everything will be blurry and then I will proceed to spend like ten minutes trying to figure
Out my camera won't focus. Here's one
My shame
tripod legs
Always make me feel like an idiot. I don't know if it's cuz I'm sure or my arms are short
But there's like no graceful way to do it you're like
Have you ever
put your camera into
bracketing mode and then you forget and you take about a hundred pictures that always makes me feel like such an idiot
Alright, go on for night photography and are doing 30-second exposures and the next day
I pick it up, and I'm shooting sports and the first time I go to take a picture is like click
And then I'm menu waiting 30 seconds to take a picture 400 years everybody else has left
You're still waiting for the second click. I like click
I always forget that I turn exposure compensation on and then all my pictures are under or overexposed
I do that one all the time too
Have you ever had a reason to turn image stabilization off and then the next day, you're like yeah?
I can shoot at 120th if that should be fine
not every picture. That one hasn't happened only because I'm
Shaky as a chihuahua so my shutter speeds always up booked twice as much as yours
Have you ever edited a picture of a portrait and you're done?
And you're like whoa this picture is "The Bomb!", and then you come back 20 minutes later
And the eyes are crazy in a person who looks like a monster it would plastic skin
I know y'all have done that I've done that it's shameful.
I've even gone so far as to post it. Don't think people didn't tell me
of my mistake. And we do it over and over again, and you know what?
Professionals build that whole thing into their workflow
They'll just be like oh, yeah
I just come back and look at it like an hour later to make sure that I didn't do something crazy, okay!
We live and we learn
I've said to myself
Two bars of battery life should be fine
No two bars is not fun. Now. I've said one battery will do. Just going out for the day!
No, one battery will not do
I have packed up an entire backpack full of gear to go on a trip, and I've only used one lens the whole time
That's an epic fail. Oh. Yeah, when you carry four pounds of gear a dozen miles of walking through a city
And you realize yeah
I could have done just fine with one. Yeah your arm falls off from carrying a hundred pounds of camera stuff
And you didn't even need it. Oh and the flipside is
I'll just need this one lens that'll be fine! You think you're gonna be doing wide-angle
And then you realize you're gonna do portraits the entire time and you're like
Oh, that's what I get for trying to spare my back
Have you ever gotten a new camera to use and you forget this at the file format?
And then you shoot in like JPEG instead of raw plus JPEG, and then you go to process your pictures, and you're like
I'm a dumb piece of sh**. I should be fine going out for night photography with this brand-new camera
Then you realize you don't know any of the buttons or dials are. And its dark, and you forgot your flashlight
And also you're alone, and you have no friends
Have you ever not used a feature in a while and then you're just like no problem
I'll go into my menu system, and I'll find it and then you get lost in your menu system for five hundred years
And you died scrolling. My tripod has fallen over like a dozen times. One time you put it on the beach
And then a wave came and stuck to the sand out from beneath the legs of your tripod
And we warned you and you still did it. One time the dog was running around, you know how they get the
Spazzes. The puppy spaz she was like and she just went right into your tripod right in the tripod
What about that switch that locks out some of the buttons that lock switch that some cameras have
And then suddenly your button's broken
And you're like, did my camera get wet? why is this broken? That happens to me on the D850.
It's got that lock and it's so easy to flip it and I'll be like Tony McCarroll. Oh
Stupid flippy lock again. Or the little switching lock on the SD cards it gets moved and your camera won't write to the SD card. Oh,
Accidentally flipping switches that's a problem in my world
I've done portrait shoots at high noon, and thought I'm sure I'll be able to find a spot where the light is nice
Sometimes I try to make a portrait clients smile while bringing up something that I think is gonna be fun
but then it takes them to some super dark place and it up all sad and morbid and I'm like I really brought up the
wrong topic. I've been meaning to tell you your portrait jokes biggest that
You ever go out all prepared to take photos may be its wildlife
And you have to like go through some wetlands, but you wear flip-flops. That was me and I think you know it.
and broke my 5d Mark 3, brand-new
I often wear the wrong footwear. Have you ever
shot a picture and not kept in mind the final format, and then you're trying to
put it in a frame, and you got to just cut your best friend out of the picture
Oh, yeah, the client wanted 8x10s, and now I have to cut out the bridesmaid. You know what, everyone
about you was kind of rude anyway goodbye Becky!
Stupid Becky. You go out with a bag filled with 800 different components, and then you're getting eaten alive by mosquitoes
And you can't take any more pictures because you can't handle it cuz you didn't bring bug
spray. The one thing. Those are just a few of them mistakes that we made
Everyone has made them that you don't have to feel embarrassed or feel like you should quit photography cuz you're not perfect
A lot of people won't admit to them
But we all make the same mistakes so you can list some of your silliest mistakes down below
We can all commiserate, laugh about it, learn from it, move on and have some fun!
Thanks for joining us until next time, stay snappy! I just made that up.
I know, everybody knows you just made it up. And it was really cool.
You know what trolls are gonna say about this video right Tony. They're gonna be like I never
Tripod legs are easy for me. I never forgot a card cuz now let's check first. It's called process guys
You know someone's gonna write an article about it or Tony and Chelsea running out of content ideas
Ironically regurgitating the content. They call unoriginal. I can just see it. I'm like a soothsayer bull****er at this point :)