Comments on: What Makes a Photographer "Professional"?

By: Valerie Evans

Valerie Evans — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:14:29 +0000

Oops! It’s such an easy thing to do, although I find that because I shoot in manual mode, I’m constantly checking my settings and rarely fire off more than half a dozen shots before I realise. There’s nothing for it but to own up if you do it, and my suspicion here is that the poor photographer might not have been blacklisted by your company if she’d come clean. Assuming that this was the mistake in the first place.
Honesty is the best policy, after all…

By: terry armstrong

terry armstrong — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:12:53 +0000

I have done the “entire shoot on the wrong setting” thing. The shoot was outdoors in bright sunlight I wasn’t able to really see the previews clearly and just “assumed” they were OK since composition and histograms looked good. When I got back to the office I discovered all the action shots were blurred! I had changed my standard 2.8 aperture to around 8 or so a couple of days before and forgot to change it back! Very embarrassing, but being the open book that I am I told everyone within earshot what I had done. No one really cared and the shots had their own appeal even with the blurred action…which was not my intent!

By: virginia beach photographer

virginia beach photographer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:22:26 +0000

I think your point about the product speaks for itself. Experience and results are what people are looking for.- Nate