Stupidity

OK people lets laugh at ourselves. This morning I was out shooting, using non-automatic settings. This deer steps out to the river. He is in velvet, and what looks like a budding 3 or 4 point western count (we in the west have only count one side). I panic (not wanting to miss the shot) turn camera on, and switch to "autostupid" push the shutter release to focus the camera the flash pops up with a loud click, push the button all the way down to take the picture and while "autostupid" is thinking the deer around. giving me a blurry picture. push button again and get picture of deer with head in brush. pictures attached

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on July 27, 2008 at 10:46am: I don't see exif data for first photo,so I suspect when you focus you be so excited and camera focus on grass in foreground. Second photo is focus right but with so little DOF and with 400 iso you never got sharp photos.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jadeast on July 27, 2008 at 11:27am: I'm glad you can laugh about this. Frustrating? We've all done it, but if anone ever comes along and wants an image of a deer's backside you've got it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by selina shulamit steiner on July 27, 2008 at 5:25pm: Still, it is a nice picture, and has the free feeling of the real wild not staged or taken on a farm; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tim www.tcphotodesign.com on August 28, 2008 at 4:29pm: Try, putting the camera to your face in front of someone, your highly focused on composition, making sure you have the ISO where it needs to be, all the settings are set and you forget and press the side of the camera, (canon 20D) the flash button pops up, the eye piece pushes out, thumping me in the eye and jolting me out of position while the person laughs in front of me, saying what happend to you...lol Always the professional...

Some times we just get so focused we forget...happens to the best of us.
Embarrassing.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Howard Harrington on August 28, 2008 at 5:59pm: We have all, done stupid things.. with our shots...That makes photography Great!!!! Lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Neal Jorgensen on August 28, 2008 at 11:37pm: This is why I started this discussion. If we are aable to laugh at the situation, and share that humor with others we not only have fun memorys, but brighten others days. Thanks all for sharing your thoughts.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mulgabill on September 5, 2008 at 6:40am: I can really feel your pain :0-(. How many times have others of us have missed the "magic" show.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brian Yeo on September 5, 2008 at 7:02am: Join the club of stupidity.......I have many of them........well deleted them now as they took up too much space on my hard-drive! Maybe go back to the same spot and hide in the bushes yourself with a tripod set up. But as said before we all do it and when you get home or back to the car and look at the LCD you kick yourself big time. There is always tomorrow as my Mum says.; ▶ Reply to This