Family Photos! Take One!

Before I begin, I need to go back.  Remember how I said I learned the importance of shooting in RAW with my first engagement couple?  Well that realization actually came from this session.  We started out meeting in the park, this family was so cute and well put together.  I was so excited to have the opportunity to photograph them.  **click, look at viewfinder, hum, looks blurry, click again, look at viewfinder again, still blurry**  grrrrrrrr what is wrong?

First mistake, I had a polarizing filter on from the day before when I was testing it out on something else.  Ok not really a big deal, but why are they so blurry?  hum, I don't know.  So I continue to snap away, taking the quick shot here or there, but every picture of this cute little boy is just a blur.  Check my shutter speed, no, it should be fast enough to freeze action. Gosh, I don't know.

So we finish up, I go home, look at the pictures and they are what I would call sub par, even for the beginner I am.  I take my camera out and the reason about smacks me in the face.  Somehow the tab for focus was pushed over to manual!   Wow talk about a learning experience!  Oh and from the night before, I had turned my ISO up to 800 and I forgot to change it back.  I was so upset.

I did happen to get a few pictures which I hope the family enjoyed! Here is where the RAW comes into play because they were so over exposed, if I had not shot in RAW the photos would be in the trash can and deleted by now. The family has since moved from Pensacola and so I do not have the opportunity to reshoot them.

Things I learned from this session:
1. ALWAYS check camera settings!  and then double check them again.  Once you've done that, check them again to make sure they are correct.
2. Sometimes @%! happens, you just got to roll with it.
3. Need to bring a bag of goodies to keep little boys still for more then 1/200000th of a second! :)