What's your biggest photography fail? I think mine would be the review of the OM-D E-M1 Mark II... I cycled all the way to the beach to test the new camera for action sports (surfing photography) and set up camp on the beach, started filming and then realised that I had forgotten the battery at home... *faaail* ua-cam.com/video/0Yw9dJhToW0/v-deo.html
I was in the german Alps, near Berchtesgaden, for three days in early January. My plan was to to be outside every day catching each sunrise and sunset, finding some new locations and shooting tons of pictures. But at the end it was snowing for 48 hours in a row, it was grey in grey, no composition worked. I missed 70 % of the locations down there. Very frustrating :D
You stated that there was nothing to learn from this video, but we did learn that planning is important to getting to your location on time and being prepared for the hoped for event. Thanks for sharing the "failure." We all make those type of errors in planning.
Most of my trips out are a fail in terms of coming away with an image I'm happy. But I don't consider any outing to ever be a fail as you always learn and usually benefit in some way - whether that's photographically, mentally or physically. E.g. A great hike, wonderful view and an encounter with a Black Widow ;-)
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Well, you got a cool little timelapse out of it though! I've definitely had more epic fails like that than I'd care to admit. A recent one though, was for my firs Vlog, I went out on a hike to try it out and I forgot the memory card to my vlogging camera, but I decided to go ahead and do it anyways, using my Canon 1DX2, which destroyed my arms by the end of it. I went ahead and published it anyways and called it "What NOT To Do On Your First Vlog, it's on my channel. The subsequent ones were much better. A lot of times I go out on hikes like that too, and only come back with a little timelapse or something, after I had this whole grand shoot planned...but like you said, that's just part of it, and at least we get to be outside and in (usually) beautiful places!
Yes the timelapse wasn't too bad... Not as spectacular as I had hoped for... but you never know until you go right? Nice little fail story on your behalf though Brent! Keep up the vlogs too ;-)
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Hi, nice FAIL story you've there. Just on the 25th of February I've been on a trip to photograph some mountains view, we were snowboarding to go back to the village and I've broken my DSLR when I've fallen on my bag, just like that. You're not alone ;)
Thank you Chris for your thoughts, here are mine: I believe we all fail, unless we make a way to learn (document) from our mistakes then we will probably keep failing.
Good seeing Nick on the adventure with you Chris. Sometimes just getting out there is enough, at least you bagged a sweet time lapse and burned some serious calories ;) Cheers mate!
Such a great guy! What a pleasure meeting and exploring together with some of the Cape Town photographers! I really hope to be back in CT in the future.
My fails happen when I plan too much. I forget to just be in the moment sometimes. I get too focused on filming for a video or trying to get the "right" shot that I get too distracted and end up with junk photos. Photography is always 99% failure 1% success - that 99% of the time it's learning and evolving your skill, 1% are those few "best of the best" shots that you could come back to in 50 years time and still love. Even still, I could come back from an adventure and artistically hate all the photos I took and still love the adventure I had so in a way it all balances out.
Aaah yes, being in the moment isn't always easy when you are trying to capture the 'perfect' shot. I have sure missed to actually experience places because of the 'chase after the perfect shot'... Nowadays I do one of two things. 1) I try to plan as much as I can in advance, so that when I get to the location I don't have to worry too much about figuring things out. Either everything falls into place and I get what I came for. Or I just enjoy it the way it is. 2) don't plan at all. go and see and experience the place and capture whatever comes my way. Both ways have their pros and cons of course. I guess it's finding the balance between the two that keeps me inspired to shoot.
As we see Chris, you are not magicial:) You have fails like we all in photography:) i enjoy this video, it is inspire me, the lucky comes after a lot of fails:) Next time you will capture perfect moment, definetely:) Good luck!:) Keep shooting and makeing videos in you tube:)
I started a "catch the lake" challenge in summer 2016. The challange was simple, reach as many lakes by bike near my town every afternoon and take some pictures. Soon the challange became "catch the lake before sunset". It was fun and challenging anyway...so I get your point here... (if you want to check the pics Instagram hashtag #catchthelake or instagram.com/explore/tags/catchthelake/ )
What's your biggest photography fail?
I think mine would be the review of the OM-D E-M1 Mark II... I cycled all the way to the beach to test the new camera for action sports (surfing photography) and set up camp on the beach, started filming and then realised that I had forgotten the battery at home... *faaail*
ua-cam.com/video/0Yw9dJhToW0/v-deo.html
I was in the german Alps, near Berchtesgaden, for three days in early January. My plan was to to be outside every day catching each sunrise and sunset, finding some new locations and shooting tons of pictures. But at the end it was snowing for 48 hours in a row, it was grey in grey, no composition worked. I missed 70 % of the locations down there. Very frustrating :D
You stated that there was nothing to learn from this video, but we did learn that planning is important to getting to your location on time and being prepared for the hoped for event. Thanks for sharing the "failure." We all make those type of errors in planning.
Very true! Maybe, secretly, that was the hidden message behind this failure :-)
Most of my trips out are a fail in terms of coming away with an image I'm happy. But I don't consider any outing to ever be a fail as you always learn and usually benefit in some way - whether that's photographically, mentally or physically. E.g. A great hike, wonderful view and an encounter with a Black Widow ;-)
Simon, you're absolutely spot on! (And the sandwich Nick brought wasn't too bad either ;-)
Thanks for posting this. We can learn as much, if not more, from our failures compared to our successes. Thanks for being open to share this.
My pleasure, and yes, absolutely agreed PhotographyTV!
Please keep these videos coming - great as usual!
Thanks Gareth! Working on more episodes as I type ;-)
If you love the episodes please consider supporting me/them on Patreon: www.patreon.com/chriseyrewalker ;-)
Well, you got a cool little timelapse out of it though! I've definitely had more epic fails like that than I'd care to admit. A recent one though, was for my firs Vlog, I went out on a hike to try it out and I forgot the memory card to my vlogging camera, but I decided to go ahead and do it anyways, using my Canon 1DX2, which destroyed my arms by the end of it. I went ahead and published it anyways and called it "What NOT To Do On Your First Vlog, it's on my channel. The subsequent ones were much better. A lot of times I go out on hikes like that too, and only come back with a little timelapse or something, after I had this whole grand shoot planned...but like you said, that's just part of it, and at least we get to be outside and in (usually) beautiful places!
Yes the timelapse wasn't too bad... Not as spectacular as I had hoped for... but you never know until you go right?
Nice little fail story on your behalf though Brent! Keep up the vlogs too ;-)
Hi, nice FAIL story you've there. Just on the 25th of February I've been on a trip to photograph some mountains view, we were snowboarding to go back to the village and I've broken my DSLR when I've fallen on my bag, just like that.
You're not alone ;)
oh man that sucks... hope you've managed to get it fixed or replaced?
Chris Eyre-Walker Photography I've to thx my insurance for the cash back yep ;) I'll get a new one with it. I've my old one in the meantime
Even tho this was a fail in terms of getting a shot, you were still in an amazing location with a mate, so that's the win! :)
absolutely correct. Nothing to be upset about really... just sometimes disappointing when you plan to do one thing and it turns into another.
There is no single shot, but whole timelapse ;) Anyway great video again, we are learning through our failures, not from the success.
somtimes we learn the most from our failures.
Thank you Chris for your thoughts, here are mine: I believe we all fail, unless we make a way to learn (document) from our mistakes then we will probably keep failing.
I couldn't have put it better Abdulaziz!
Good seeing Nick on the adventure with you Chris. Sometimes just getting out there is enough, at least you bagged a sweet time lapse and burned some serious calories ;)
Cheers mate!
Such a great guy! What a pleasure meeting and exploring together with some of the Cape Town photographers! I really hope to be back in CT in the future.
My fails happen when I plan too much. I forget to just be in the moment sometimes. I get too focused on filming for a video or trying to get the "right" shot that I get too distracted and end up with junk photos. Photography is always 99% failure 1% success - that 99% of the time it's learning and evolving your skill, 1% are those few "best of the best" shots that you could come back to in 50 years time and still love.
Even still, I could come back from an adventure and artistically hate all the photos I took and still love the adventure I had so in a way it all balances out.
Aaah yes, being in the moment isn't always easy when you are trying to capture the 'perfect' shot. I have sure missed to actually experience places because of the 'chase after the perfect shot'... Nowadays I do one of two things.
1) I try to plan as much as I can in advance, so that when I get to the location I don't have to worry too much about figuring things out. Either everything falls into place and I get what I came for. Or I just enjoy it the way it is.
2) don't plan at all. go and see and experience the place and capture whatever comes my way.
Both ways have their pros and cons of course. I guess it's finding the balance between the two that keeps me inspired to shoot.
Still gorgeous shots!
Thanks Paul and Sue :-)
Chris i've told Nick before, there are no black windows in SA haha! its a button spider! Looked great still man!
haha still better to be careful than sorry!
Minor fail. But you were still able to get out to some beautiful locations!
Indeed! Getting to the location was absolutely worth the fail ;-)
As we see Chris, you are not magicial:) You have fails like we all in photography:) i enjoy this video, it is inspire me, the lucky comes after a lot of fails:) Next time you will capture perfect moment, definetely:) Good luck!:) Keep shooting and makeing videos in you tube:)
nope... not magical at all haha.
Here's to next time!
That wasn't a fail Chris, you're just getting spoiled by too much winning :)
haha yes maybe I am... or I'm just not trying hard enough?
I doubt it, you've already done and experienced more cool stuff than I did in 64 years, but I like your attitude. :)
I started a "catch the lake" challenge in summer 2016. The challange was simple, reach as many lakes by bike near my town every afternoon and take some pictures. Soon the challange became "catch the lake before sunset". It was fun and challenging anyway...so I get your point here... (if you want to check the pics Instagram hashtag #catchthelake or instagram.com/explore/tags/catchthelake/ )
Love the challenge! Such a great idea. You must have gotten fit in the process hahah
Kind of, the farest was 24km away
In a sense it's like fishing or hunting.
Absolutely!