Why are the same pictures so different...Help??

I'm surprised anyone bothered to give the op an answer, given his pathetic attitude towards people trying to help... :dummy::nono:
 
Trixster said:
I'm surprised anyone bothered to give the op an answer, given his pathetic attitude towards people trying to help... :dummy::nono:
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Colour looks a bit off. It that in Night mode?

PS That's a joke Neil!!! ;) :D
 
HoppyUK said:
Colour looks a bit off. It that in Night mode?

PS That's a joke Neil!!! ;) :D
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When I first arrive at the Zoo this lion was doing a bunch of crazy stuff and I started taking a bunch of pictures and couldn't understand why the meter was jumping from over to under exposure every time I took a shot and started to think that there was something wrong with the camera then it dawned on me that I had been learning about bracketing the night before and when I looked at the camera settings the bracketing was still turned on..........when I switched it off the lion yawned and went back to sleep and I missed it all.........makes me want to go out and get a kodak:):):):)
 
incidentally its easy enough to sort out the over saturation in photoshop

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and btw that one was caused by the shot being inside but you having selected landscape which forces the awb to select an outdoor WB
 
ndwgolf said:
When I first arrive at the Zoo this lion was doing a bunch of crazy stuff and I started taking a bunch of pictures and couldn't understand why the meter was jumping from over to under exposure every time I took a shot and started to think that there was something wrong with the camera then it dawned on me that I had been learning about bracketing the night before and when I looked at the camera settings the bracketing was still turned on
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Good point. Dunno about the D7000, but some cameras have white balance bracketing too (Canon's 5D Mk II resets it to [none] when you power off and on again to avoid such surprises).
 
ndwgolf said:
When I first arrive at the Zoo this lion was doing a bunch of crazy stuff and I started taking a bunch of pictures and couldn't understand why the meter was jumping from over to under exposure every time I took a shot and started to think that there was something wrong with the camera then it dawned on me that I had been learning about bracketing the night before and when I looked at the camera settings the bracketing was still turned on..........when I switched it off the lion yawned and went back to sleep and I missed it all.........makes me want to go out and get a kodak:):):):)
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Yeah, I've done that a bunch of times, it's a real headfart trying to figure out what's going on, and yes it is a great adventure, love it..xx
 
ndwgolf said:
I like to bitch but I really love this new adventure
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Please keep your bitching off the forums. You've been offered some very good advice in this thread and people have been very patient with your arsey responses.

Joe - stop poking for an arguement please :nono:
 
ndwgolf said:
When I first arrive at the Zoo this lion was doing a bunch of crazy stuff and I started taking a bunch of pictures and couldn't understand why the meter was jumping from over to under exposure every time I took a shot and started to think that there was something wrong with the camera then it dawned on me that I had been learning about bracketing the night before and when I looked at the camera settings the bracketing was still turned on..........when I switched it off the lion yawned and went back to sleep and I missed it all.........makes me want to go out and get a kodak:):):):)
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So a valuable lesson learnt. If you change your settings away from your 'normal' or expected mode, always change them back again at the end of a shoot. I always leave my camera in AV, ISO 100, auto white balance as a starter.
 
I don't know if it is available on Nikon bodies, but on my 5D I can set a custom mode, so that whenever I switch it on it is in AV mode, ISO 100, AWB, raw, one shot AF and f2.8.
 
Byker28i said:
So a valuable lesson learnt. If you change your settings away from your 'normal' or expected mode, always change them back again at the end of a shoot. I always leave my camera in AV, ISO 100, auto white balance as a starter.
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The D7000 does have that function, I just haven't got around to using it yet
 
ndwgolf said:
not sure what you mean here
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hes asking what mode you used - since you managed to shoot a portrait in landscape mode earlier
 
ndwgolf said:
I took both these pictures within one minute why so different
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Iso has nothing to do with the difference in color. It could be that you bumped your Scene Mode, such as being set on Landscape, and bumping it to a custom Sepia mode, etc. Or it could be the auto white balance was thrown off. That doesn't happen outdoors too often, that drastically (mostly happens indoors), but within that one minute, if you turned a bit, it could have picked up more clouds, changing it from sunny to cloudy, etc. But I'm guessing you bumped the scene into a different one.
 
Craikeybaby said:
I don't know if it is available on Nikon bodies, but on my 5D I can set a custom mode, so that whenever I switch it on it is in AV mode, ISO 100, AWB, raw, one shot AF and f2.8.
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Does it automatically switch to that though at startup, say for instance if you've changed to fully auto green square mode, or (more likely) if it's been left or knocked into Manual?

Obviously we should all check our settings when we start but I guess I'm not the first to shoot the first picture on a sunny day at iso 3200 :D
 
Not if the command dial has been moved, but that is only one thing to check rather than lots.
 
I always use auto white balance, when shooting raw and have never had a problem ;)
 
Auto WB and RAW is a winning and versatile combination for me.

I rarely have any problems with it - except perhaps in unusual mixed light circumstances.
 
Goshhh, this thread makes a compelling reading. Started with the simple issues of aparent WB differences from the two shots posted by the OP wanting to know the reason why they looked different, then jumped to some strange comments from the OP and then members that threw in banters that I laughed my guts off, particularly one in response to the sunset image lol, and then back to serious issues of WB again.
I definitely am going to take something with me from this thread, want to try shooting in RAW + Jpg and instead of AWB will set the white balance manually and see if it has any different effect in my workflow. It was suggested above that if one shoots this way then most times the jpg might be good as it is rather than working on the RAW file, so if it works out good then I will be over the moon. At the moment I only shoot RAW in AWB and then do all the work while processing. So something new to try and looking forward to it.
Oh and as I am expecting my new toy today (5D MKII) this will just add extra enthusiasm to it. And the weather seems promising yupii :)

To the OP please keep those images coming and the questions also, you are bound to learn a lot more here than with your Nikin teacher, and will not have to die :lol:
 
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