How Shooting RAW + JPEG Saved a Set I'd Badly Underexposed (Sony ZV-1, July Set 4 of 15)
Set four of fifteen. I shot most of a set at the wrong aperture, flash and all, worked out the problem right at the end, and then my battery died before I could fix it. Here's what went wrong, and the one decision that meant I didn't lose the whole thing.
I nearly lost this set. Not to weather, not to a location problem: to my own settings, and to a screen I couldn't read.
I was out on the pier in hard, bright sun, shooting solo, in manual mode, with my aperture jammed far too tight. Most of the batch came back dark. A chunk of it came back nearly unusable: me as a silhouette against a blazing sky, the white dress the only thing holding any detail. The flash was on and firing the entire time, and it still couldn't save it. I didn't work out what was happening until the very end of the shoot, and by then it was too late to do much about it.
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