Still at Sweetwater Wetlands, a beautiful anhinga drying his feathers

I met for three hours yesterday with my photography mentor (Bo) who is a professional. We haven't spent much time together in quite awhile and I had some issues that I needed help with. I feel like you should know that I am getting help with my photography and I'm trying to improve. Some of the ideas we are working on could help you with your photography. We tackled one primary issue yesterday. I had been complaining that my ISO, which I had set to 'Auto,' seemed to be 'stuck.' After returning home, I saw that many of the photos I took at Sweetwater were grainy. I was very disappointed as some of the shots were action photos and would have been excellent pictures, especially the pictures with osprey flying with fish, but are now are barely usable. The other disappointing thing was that there was almost no chance we were going to get back to Sweetwater for a year or more. After searching through numerous menus in the camera, we found the reason for the ISO not changing. The minimum and maximum settings were set to the same thing, ISO 6400. Since I use Auto ISO for most photos, this meant nearly every photo was affected. In the photos below, the F-stop was set to the correct setting (8.0) and the shutter speed was set to 1/2500 of a second, which for a bird that is moving, is appropriate. The high ISO did not effect these photos. What caused the min and the max ISO settings to be the same? There is a wheel that you use to change ISO and a few other settings. At some point I must have accidentally moved the ISO setting to 6400; lesson learned.





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