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I find a good tip to deal with over saturation is once you think you're done editing, drag the saturation slider all the way down to zero and then slowly bring it back up to where you were before, sometimes you'll realize it's better to stop before that point a few notches

"bring snax". The biggest lesson for every hobby ever.

Common one for me: setting the circular polarizer to remove glare when taking a landscape with water, then rotating the camera, but forgetting to rotate the polarizer

My most common mistake: Sometimes I'll put the camera on a tripod so I can take HDR/Panoramic landscape shots, but I don't have my remote with me so I'll set the shutter release on a 2 second delay to prevent camera shake in the image. But then, I'll forget to turn the delay back off, so when I go to take a handheld image again, I'll hit the shutter button and nothing will happen for 2 seconds.

Ah, mistakes! We've all made them and they're just the first step towards learning and improving. What common mistakes have you made and learned from?

Good video! I took up photography a few years ago and primarily shoot bike racing. It can move really fast and I often find myself rushing and forgetting to change settings between different scenes, or taking panning shots and forgetting to switch my lens to the panning mode. Or if I’m lucky I’ll remember to switch it for the panning shots, but then forgot to switch it back off when going back to standard mode. For me, I have to learn to slow down and check settings before being quick to push that shutter button. I like your tip about using the notes app - simple but effective. . I paused the video at that point and immediately jotted down a few reminders to help minimize my most frequent mistakes. Thanks for another good video.

best advice you gave was really take a break from your edits before coming back to it.. I simply do that for every single edit I do, I NEVER send any photos to my client before a night of rest between my edits and the next one. there is ALWAYS something wrong with the first edit, and it's so easy to spot on the second run cos it's obvious but you're either tired or tunnel focus that you miss the obvious.. what I like to do to shorten that up is once I'm done, I just go back to the first photo and usually I can already spot the mistakes because I gradually improved the edit throughout all the pictures.. and by the time I got to the last one I usually have a good grip of the edit I wanted for that batch.. so going back to the first one I see the mistake, either it's too saturated or whatever, it will show.. so yeah, never rush to post something or send to the client, never ever.

I have made plenty of dumb mistakes. I once had to turn on custom white balance for an interior with terribly yellow light. Then I went to the beach and ruined 30+ shots before I noticed everything was blue. And I once overexposed in edit because the laptop screen was very dark. The last time I used it, the laptop battery was low so I turned down the brightness to save energy. And forgot to turn it up later.

I had the fuzzy viewfinder problem, tried everything, including the dioptre, turned out I had a cataract in my right eye!

Just wanted to say you help make photography fun and much more productive. You and Tony are a great team, thank you.

Thanks for sharing. I have been shooting for more than 40 years. Every time I shoot I learn something new or make a mistake. Lately I started a Google workbook with each sheet dedicated to checklists for equipments and settings for each photo, video, film photo, or drone assignment.

Speaking of mistakes, sorry about the sound! I fixed it with a plug-in but something went wrong when I uploaded the video. I’ll be sure to triple check next time 🙃

Great video! I have made one, two,, three.....well maybe most of the mistakes you mentioned. Checking my settings before taking the photo was my major mistake. I now check frequently as I shoot - talking to/reminding myself to check is norm.

Thanks for the video Chelsea ❤ Loved it:)

I loved the video keep up the great job and yes I am thinking about square-space.

Wow Chelsea, I've made all these mistakes, it's so nice to hear you talk about them. You're great! Robert DP

One of my many; walking up to a shot, pressing the shutter, starting to walk away and the 2 sec timer was on from a previous snap. Desperately, I try to get the camera back into position but... just pitiful.

I appreciate the video! I make the exposure comp mistake a lot as well as leaving the lens cap on lol Thank you!

Wearing polarized sunglasses. It makes it challenging to view/monitor my shots.

Hey Tony And chelsea much love From India ❤️ I'm a huge fan Of your work ❤️ Have learned many Things about photography from you guys thanks for that ❤️

I find it hard you make mistakes. Thanks for the tips! I came across some of them too.

Excellent notes!! 📸 👍

Great video about honest mistakes!

I checked my diopter and nothing changed! Chelsea remained just as glamorous what ever I did! I expect I’ll offend some people, but you all know I’m not wrong! Thanks for all the useful advice.

It took over 25 years for me to do this but I showed up on a shoot with bags, need cameras in bags in order to qualify as camera bags. Had all equipment out the night before cleaning bodies, lenses, charging camera batteries, flash batteries, checking to make sure I had all rigging needed, checking modifiers, ring mounts, etc. put it all back in rolling cases but left bodies on the table to install 100% batteries in the morning before shoot. Oops. Put batteries in them, had helper show up at the door and forgot to add bodies into my backpacks. Everyone had a good laugh, even me although I am sure my complexion was bright red from the embarrassment!

Informative and brilliant post, thank you.

Thank you for the reminder to bring and use a good tripod. No matter what you shoot with, IBIS or not, there is no excuse for not having a stable platform to shoot from. It may look "old fashioned' or "dorky" but it works! Depending on IBIS or lens stabilization for sharp images is like depending on a driverless car. You are going to have to take control sometime.

Thank you I needed this

Setting your lens limiter switch to distance and wondering why your lens will not focus close. Duh! I have made all the ones you mentioned. I carry 3 batteries! LOL I enjoy your videos! Thanks

I really like your heads up on this topic. Your delivery was very smooth. Not sure if you were trying but your also FUNNY. thanks

Thanks for sharing another wonderful video Chelsea, can you please make a video with the Canon R7 and the Sigma, Tamron lenses please, please, please 🙏🤗

Chelsea, you are very likable, and thank you for the tips.

As a photobooth owner with lots of moving parts, I've learned the hard way, 1 very funny, yet essential thing needed to be added to ALL my lists... at the end of compiling the master list I always add "Dont forget the list" you can just imagine taking every piece of camera gear out in public along with a generator and full on "Computer office" out to a 3 day outdoor festival and realize that you left your master list at home and suddenly your not sure if you brought that G-master 24-70 F2.8, or is it sitting on your coffee table? (maybe, maybe not?)

I want to truly thank you for the advice on the electronic shutter for the flash wireless trigger to work. I almost throw away my radios because it seemed there was no communication between them.

“Override the lizard brain”. ALWAYS great advice!🤣🤣🤣

Great tips. Im not a professional one but I do a lot of those mistake specially the one you leave the cap on, batteries I always carrie 3 and make sure to recharge that night, I enjoy this video, thanks and be safe....

For white birds you should use the Sony "HTP" instead: "High Tone Priority". It's an metering mode that makes sure your picture contains all high tones. Of course the image will look dark in the viewfinder or on the display as you review it but you can be sure you'll be able to restore the highlights in post. I use this metering mode all the times in case something very bright is in the picture.

The two I make are: manual focus for outside night shots and forgetting later; wireless trigger mode for family group shots and not understanding why the shutter button isn't working.

💯- Guilty! One time I dropped my camera because I thought I had my strap on when I didn't. I like using a strap but sometimes it just gets in the way and I'll take it off and just do a handheld. Well, I dropped my camera thinking I still had my strap on!

Wow... that 1st tip was spot on. now i can not tell if my eyesight is messed up or if the Diopter was mistakenly caressed. Anyways it fixed my blurry EVF. Thanks Chelsea

My mistakes are pretty common. And I can pretty much pair it down to one simple flaw. Impatience. I'm always in a rush with no time to double-check anything. This often leads to problems like leaving the cap on, or not paying attention to the tripod on the rare occasions I use one. But the biggest is with the camera settings. I'll occasionally, just once or twice, take the time to really set up and test a shot, making sure the exposure is right, using manual mode to tweak it until I like it, then suddenly there is a cool shot I absolutely must get and I forget it's in Manual mode and I take an 8-second exposure indoors, or overexpose a deer jumping through the tall grass next to the road. I only have a basic refurb and kit lens so there isn't much for me to keep track of, and what little there is for me to keep track of I never manage to do successfully. Except for fireworks, fireworks are easy. Probably one of the few times the "spray and pray" method is valid, especially from tripod. I'm also definitely a poor editor. I never know what I want. So I brighten, saturate and call it good.

This is all great information Chelsea and you are definitely not alone. Especially about the lens cap but we don’t need to beat that dead horse 😵‍💫 You briefly mention a point in shoot camera. Do you have a favorite go to?

I love the bit about tripods. You’re funny! Lol.

Chelsea - for #2, do you know if the Z9 has the same issue with the electronic shutter (especially since it has no mechanical shutter)?

I am someone who did a lot these 🙃...so glad you made this video, I was sure I was the only one !!

Love the brutal honesty. Been there - Done all of that. I half-ass set up my tripod and destroyed my Nikkor 400mm f/2.8 and Nikon D850. Ugh.

Here’s one: handing your expensive and complicated camera to your 7 year old grandson to let him take a few pics. He did and gave it back - after which camera would no longer focus. Took me 15 min to figure what buttons he accidentally pushed.

I reset my setting to some default after a shoot. That habit forces me to always think about settings before a shoot, because I know they're always wrong when I pick up the camera. Also, I always empty the camera after a shoot -- batteries, mem cards, lenses, etc. Transfer the photos and empty the cards, put all the batteries in chargers, clean the lenses, etc.

I just love your honesty, it's contagious and your advice given so openly. Thank-you.

Haha always Bring Snax! Really good info here Chelsea!

Hey Chelsea How about metering Mode? I changed mine for a certain photo isse then forgot to reset and my colors etc were all off

iso 3200 in daylight because I was shooting in near dark the last time. And since I keep my shutter set to mechanical/electronic, if I can't hear the shutter or feel it, I might not notice for a while. Hate doing that!

Just curious to know if you are shooting your YT videos in 4K or better? They look great!

Going from an air conditioned car or house straight into a hot and humid environment will cause the lens to fog up due to condensation. To solve, I stash my camera and lens in the garage a few hours prior to departure or keep the car windows rolled down so my equipment can acclimate to outdoor conditions during the commute.

Hello!!! Do you know how shooting video affect mirrorless cameras? I would like to buy a used one but some of them are used for video with very low shutter count

The hardest lesson for me was less is more especially keeping shots simple and avoid over processing. The only time I use a tripod for video or 4x5 view cameras. I think that was one of the reasons I became a photojournalist. The funniest one was a friend of mine who needed help and insisted that I bring my portable studio lights for a shot, I kept telling him it was overkill for the shot, when all we needed was a sb units and the Nikon Creative Lighting System. He kept on insisting he wanted to put on a show for the client. The images were okay but he knew they could be better and complained to me. I simply explained that is what you get when you use the wrong tool for a job. BTW I carry three extra batteries paranoid enough for you and I avoid the lens cap issue by only using the rear cap.

Hello guys, nice meet y'all. I just bought a T8i but I've never saw anyone talking about this camera. Does anyone know if this camera is good? Thanks in advance.

I hate tripods. I try to commit myself to bringing a monopod though. Exposure comp? Yeah. I've done that. Now with my new Canon it's less of s concern because it's not an easy setting to get to making me use it almost never now when ISO is so easy to get to. All good stuff! Thanks Chelsea!

Thanks for the video! Is it ok for battery health to keep one on a charger for weeks at a time so it's always ready to go? They are super expensive, so I'd want to be sure I wasn't damaging them doing that.

Flash and Electronic shutter.. Camera firmware should alert you if you try and use flash and elec shutter and or auto switch?? thoughts?

Tip: I put all my settings that may cause issue or conflicts added to one page in my favorites menus in my camera. That way I can scroll there and quickly be reminded and easily change them.

The settings based ones are definitely a relatable struggle for us ADHD folks, if we can't see it, we tend to forget it exists lol

I always try to reset my camera settings when I'm done for the day as I've made the mistake of shooting at night and then quickly grabbing and taking a day shot with night settings which were all trash. Always have a few batteries (not 3rd party) and a few memory cards. Shocked when friends can't take any more pictures when their card is full because they never take pictures off.

Hi I have always liked your videos. I don’t know where to put this I couldn’t find you original video on the director / photographer that used an assistant and he tried to take full claim. What I was wondering why didn’t she use her own camera? If there would have been Meta data about her ownership with date and time would that have fixed the problem? On a personal note Do you give classes wildlife photography locally. I have bought all your books. I have some of Tony videos from way back. Thank you again. Fraser Schwalley

How about brushing the SD card lock slider agains the card slot when putting it in? Locks the card, the shutter won’t fire.

You could lump all of these things together into the category of preparation. Be sure everything is prepared- batteries charged, camera settings correct, tripod properly set up, etc. Of you could go one step back and lump everything into the category of work. You have to put the work in to get the shot, the work of preparation, the work of finding the site, the work of waiting for the light, the work of framing the shot, all of the things that we don't want to do but are essential. Sometimes a person will happen upon perfect location/framing/light without putting in the work but usually a good shot reflects the work that was put in up front. (And for the record I don't like doing the work and my body resists, but I know that I have to step back and put in the work if I want good results.)

Thanks for those great tips,I once forgot to zip up my peak design back pack and then I fliped it to my other schoulder (other side) and then all my gear fell out of the bag.Fortuanatly only my filters craked on my one lense.Ooops.NB,Always make sure the zipper is secure before accessing the other side.😆

Rushing post is a really big one for me. Nice to know even a pro can fall into that trap

Chelsea My lowlight photos had a yellow tinge didn't realize until I started editing I checked my White balance and it was set at 5,000 Kelvin instead of Auto White Balance I had no idea. Now I'm fixing the White Balance in my pictures in post processing.

Thank you Chelsea.

with my diopter i mark with a fine silver sharpie where it should be on my bodies just incase i accidentally move it, that way if something is off and it shouldnt be its a quick one to visually (lol) see.

Perhaps a really useful one: leave a memory card on your bag for any emergencies. It doesn't need to be the one with most space, but rather something that can help you source a replacement from a nearby place.

On my Fuji I had accidentally enabled ND filter. Only tell was the higher ISO. Took a while to realize…

I'm looking for a decent tripod for my nikon D5600 can you recommend any think.

Leaving the cap on happened when I had a top model that was allowing me to take her photo. Would not have been so bad, only I did it a second time in the same shoot with the same model. Felt real professional!!!!

Leave the ND filter activated (X100V). I did a city shoot (for myself) and I couldn't get the light realy right. Back home I discovered the build in ND filter was activated.

Thank you

I may be late to the conversation. But I can’t seem to find a fix to this. Sometimes I’ll have images on my camera that look correctly exposed. But I find that when I import them into Lightroom. They are bad up under exposed. Is there a setting that I am missing?

I have done things like bringing a camera out without a SD card or using a dummy battery. It happens all the time because I do timelapses of plants at home and I have to plug it in with a dummy battery. Forgetting to bring an SD card happens when I just go halfway through editing photos and leave plugged in the computer. Now I have spare cards in every bag I have, the two camera bags have lots of cheaper cards, I even keep one in the backpack I daily use, which is not a camera bag, in case I decided last moment to grab a camera with me for a walk and leave the card at home.

What happened the A1 didn't work in electronic?

Using third party flash shoe covers on Canon cameras - they may disable the internal flash as the camera thinks you have an external one. 2:56 I did that always on EOS M. When shooting in artificial light I had to turn the white balance 7-9 steps towards blue. Then the next time I shot in daylight and everything was blue.I would like a feature where the camera resets the settings each night to some user preset default (of course this will not help with mechanical dials)

The lens cap and the diopter still happens to me from time to time lol!

3:26 Pentax has a green button for this purpose that resets everything back to default. I miss that on my Sony camera...

The silliest thing I've ever done was... Out shooting one day with my 5D- mk1 and suddenly the view through my viewfinder became dark and grainy looking, it didn't matter what settings I changed that day it still wouldn't look normal, I even rang Canon support and spoke to a tech about the problem to which they responded I'd have to send it some 2,000km to Sydney for them to repair it under warranty. The next day I realized what was happening, it was the way I'd been holding the camera my little finger had been pressing the DOF button near the lens mount. DOH! Sometimes it pays to read some of the manual before operating something new lol

Great Info, Defiantly, but I need some help, had a great photo session with a couple , camera was in the RAW, got some good shots and some not so good. here is my stress point. putting the pictures into Lightroom Classic, Lightroom would not except any UGH, Signed advice please

Most helpful reminder. Tripod! Yes I too get lazy with the tripod

My most common mistake is when I'm using my Sony NEX C3 I sometimes touch the video button without realising and I've lined up a good shot, press the shutter button and nothing, panic mode used to set in, "why won't my camera not working?", then I see the rec in the corner of the screen. Now if it doesn't take a photo that's the 1st thing I check. I recently had the use of an Olympus EM5 and was able to assign magnify to the record button so eliminated that issue with that camera.

I normally set ISO to Auto, and adjust the aperture and shutter speed. But somehow the ISO was accidently set to 100 on an overcast day, and I wondered why all my images were underexposed. I now check all settings just in case.

That's how we make the world a better place! ❤️💐🦅

10yrs wildlife & nature photography here and I STILL forget to remove the lens cap. Glad I'm not the only one who has done this 🤣.

Showing up to a photoshoot without your camera - ME! lol

My favorite mistake is forgetting that you needed to put an SD card in your camera before heading out... oops... 😂

I’m an architectural photographer by day and a event photographer by night. Previous night I had cropped into DX to get extra reach on my 70-200. Next morning at a very important clients call out I thought to myself “why are my shots so tight? I’m at 15mm??” Duh!!!! Shot the whole gig that way. Last shot……. It hits me. 🤦‍♂️

I have a canon r6 with a godox system and have no issues with ocf and electronic shutter, maybe its a brand issue, not a global mirrorles camera thing.

Best tip in this video is "Bring Snax" for sure!

1. Caring about lens sharpness. 2. Having a camera you need to be careful when using. 3. Change lenses on location. 4. Lifting shadows in post on every photograph. 5. Using manual focus lenses.

Offhand, probably my most genius moment was when I offered to shoot a music video for my friend's band. I met the band at one of their practice sessions, and spent close to ten minutes attaching my camera to my gimbal for some potential B roll. Turns out I had the base plate backwards. Yeah, I looked really pro.

Chelsea, I have an R6 and use 4 batteries. Also, all of these tips are great, no matter your skill level.

Common mistake I make is leaving it in aperture priority when it starts getting dark. So I take a photo and I hear the shutter and think damn, that didn't sound right, and sure enough it's something like 1/15 second and there's motion blur everywhere.