Lesson Learned

[drfood]

I feel the need to testify. :doh:

I am dangerous when it comes to new gadgets. Never read the instructions and start pushing buttons and changing settings before I know fully what I am doing. That is what I did with the D90....bought it on Saturday and never bothered to read the directions and changed menu settings like a mad man while shooting different shots (some posted here, some not).

I purchased a book called Mastering the D90 and knew I would have time to read it when traveling this week and figured it would encourage me to "play". I'm sitting on the plane to and from Providence and fully absorbed in the book and each page I turned I was saying to myself "oh crap, you shouldn't have done this that or the other without knowing what it did". Lesson 1 learned.

Last night I finally downloaded Lightroom 3 beta and started looking at some of the shots. I took lessons learned from the book about evaluating the shots using the histograms and applied them to the shots I was looking at last night. Oh boy, now I know why some of the shots came out looking like they did. Note to self, turn on the histogram functioning in the camera preview. Most of the shots were either overexposed or underexposed. And the iso values were WAY off what they should have been. Dummy, stop screwing around with the settings that you don't understand. :eek2:

Anyway, I wanted to share a bit of testimony with those who might be interested in hearing about my lessons learned.

And I don't normally promote books but this book was really good and the guy writes it in a very down home manner. He says multiple times in the book he's not a technical type and explains things in simple terms throughout. Book is $34.95 at Border's or B&N.

And Lightbox 3 beta. OMG! Talk about extremely cool software. We sat there playing with photos until 2 AM this morning. I can't wait to use it more and get more comfortable with it.

Hopefully it will be decent weather this weekend so I can take some new photos using lessons learned.

BTW, is there a way to reset the D90 completely to factor default settings because I changed a lot of settings and I don't remember which all I changed.

One final thing....we need a photography set of emoticons.:sun:

[Hairsmith]

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90.htm

http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90/users-guide/index.htm

Reset: Hold down the +/- and AF buttons (next to the green dots) for a few seconds, and the D90 comes out of whatever crazy mode it was in and returns to sanity. The top LCD blinks and everything is back to normal.

Kens information is very helpful, I have his D40 info on my iphone so it is with me at all times when I am out with the camera.
Hope this helps....

[WoodButcher]

I blame M38A1 for getting me hooked on Lightroom. I just hope I have a job by the time LR3 is actually released because I'm going to be sad when my beta copy expires.

[drfood]

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90.htm

http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/d90/users-guide/index.htm

Reset: Hold down the +/- and AF buttons (next to the green dots) for a few seconds, and the D90 comes out of whatever crazy mode it was in and returns to sanity. The top LCD blinks and everything is back to normal.

Kens information is very helpful, I have his D40 info on my iphone so it is with me at all times when I am out with the camera.
Hope this helps....

Thanks!

[drfood]

I blame M38A1 for getting me hooked on Lightroom. I just hope I have a job by the time LR3 is actually released because I'm going to be sad when my beta copy expires.

I blame both you and M38A1 for getting me into this whole mess. It's all your fault! :rofl: :clap:

[gixxerjasen]

Thankfully nearly all electronic devices these days have a factory reset for those of us who fiddle without reading instructions. I learned this lesson long ago with the first computer I bought with my own money. I started fiddling around in the bios like I had with my dad's old computer. Things were MUCH different from his and I screwed it up and had to go have the place I bought it from fix it. But ya move on, ya learn and end up working in IT one day fixing stuff other people fiddle with that they shouldn't have. :mrgreen:

Nice score on the camera. I played with lightroom myself. My old computer can't really perform like it should with it and for the shot's I'm taking lately it's like taking a howitzer to a pistol fight. Maybe later when I get my D70 fixed and start playing with photography again.

[M38A1]

I blame both you and M38A1 for getting me into this whole mess. It's all your fault! :rofl: :clap:

You're welcome.... (i think...) :photo:

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