Common Mistakes Photographers Make, how to correct them

Nothing is perfect in life so mistake are very common to be made but the thing is mistakes make for a good learning experience and to increase your skills to become person, or in this case, photographer. Below are common mistakes that many photographers make and few tips on how to avoid them.

Shooting RAW pictures

Many new photographers shoot in JPEG-only format and are afraid of switching to at least RAW + JPEG, if not RAW-only format. While JPEG images are web-ready and take up less space on a hard drive, there are many benefits to shooting RAW. The most important of these benefits is that in shooting RAW, you are recording all of the data from the sensor. Shooting in RAW allows for non-destructive editing as when you edit a RAW file, the original data stays intact. You are only creating instructions for how the end file format of your choice is saved.

Having no work force in place from the beginning

Working and arranging the images in best practice as any unorganised forders and editting forders must be organised in proper way otherwise you will not get the required picture.

Not backing up pictures

Photographers don’t have a backup system in place, replying solely on their computer or laptop to never crash or fail. If this were to happen, the photographer would lose all of his or her work. External hard drives have grown in size and are becoming less expensive to purchase as a local backup option. We also now have the option of cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, iDrive, Google Drive (Google Photos), Apple iCloud Drive and Box. I was very pleased to find that Google Drive/Google Photos has options of 100GB to 30TB.

Not having a Plan B

What will happened if doesnt become a photographer, and not having any Plan B. In addition to having a “Plan B”, make sure you have a backup for all of your most critical pieces of equipment. If you need a flash for a shoot, what will happen if it breaks and you don’t have a backup?

Shooting at eye level

Many photographers as guilty of taking photos standing straight up and shooting from their eye level only. This has several drawbacks such as lack of personal perspective and incorporating things into your frame which do not flatter or lend to the subject such as a dirty floor, cords, gum on the sidewalk – you get the picture. I’ve learned over the years that when you photographing animals or small children, a much more appealing perspective is to get down to eye level with your subject.

Shooting multiple images without variation

Many photographers fear missing the decisive moment in a shoot, holding their finger down on the shutter button in continuous mode or just hitting the shutter button over and over again without really taking a moment to actually think about what they are shooting. It doesn’t matter the subject. I might have been guilty of this for one shoot once upon a time, but very quickly learned that being trigger-happy with the shutter button on a photoshoot or photowalk can lead to numerous images, each looking nearly identical. This can can cost you hours of looking at each similar image to choose the winning image to retouch. When I shoot portraits, I tend to shoot slow and more deliberately, which eliminates this problem.

Over editting images

The way you edit your images can turn an image with great potential into something that looks completely beyond amatuer. When a photographer over edits an image by oversharpening (which can cause a halo effect), oversaturating, increasing or decreasing contrast too much or trying to fix a blurry image by taking away clarity and making it too soft, it creates a more unrealistic looking image.