Shot a wedding this weekend. Some of my best work to date if I do say so myself. The only problem is that I shoot 1000+ pictures each, and I have to sort through them when I get home to cull out the blurry / bad / over-under exposed shots. Most people don't realize that for every picture I take, I have to inspect it for exposure ,focus, and color balance (making the whites look white. Trust me, it ain't easy).
When I first started, I could throw out over half of my images. But now that I've gotten better, such a high ratio of keepers slows me down due to the amount of time I have to adjust. Yeah, it'd be nice to take a picture and have it perfect out of the camera, but unfortunately when doing candids, you don't have the time to adjust before you take the shot.
Well, I'm going through the pictures last night and I realized I had this red dot in every shot. Turns out, my beast of a camera has a dead sensor, or 'hot pixel'. {insert very long line of profanity here} Luckily for me, the noise reducing algorithm in Photoshop pretty much deals with it, but I can still see it in every picture which is annoying to me. It's under warranty, so I can get it fixed (well, not 'fixed' per say. Nikon will simply reprogram the camera to not use that sensor) but that takes time, and I don't have a backup camera to use.
Got a wedding on Friday then 2 weeks before my next one. Don't know if it'd be possible to get it fixed during that time.
Isn't life grand?