jenny-matheson

Thank you for all the responses. It was not a wedding, nor can it be repeated, nor did they request black and white. Saying that, all images taken with my second camera are good, but that was all a different part of the event. I will gladly refund all the money and admit this was my mistake. BUT I have edited all the pics and are not as bad as they were. In fact, I am creating copies and having both color and BW available but the BW look great. If it were a wedding, I think they would be very desirable in fact. But it’s not wedding photos... I plan on sending out this week and will hope for good feedback. If not, I will offer a refund or possibly a free service. I really was horrified when I saw what I had done, and think the best tip here is to set a max iso so I NEVER do that again, unintentionally.

I have been doing portraits and sports photography for some time and also do headshots and commerical shoots. However, I’m inexperianced in events and just made soem serious mistakes that have me hanging my head in shame and fear. I just got a new camera and decided to ahoot withbit ( a day after it arrived). Low light indoor with high ceiling. I stupidly decided to avoid using flash and instead took all images with no flash. It was a large event and I was nervous and still not 100% on the new camera. Long story short, my ISO was incredibly high... 160000 and all images have a lot of grain. I was reading it as 1600!!! Im so mortified and horrified. The grain is really too much to change much pp. i was briefly checking inages in camera and they seemed ok...but of course couldnt tell until I uploaded. I am so dissapointed in myself and cant believe I was misreading the numbers. What can I do???? I use Lightroom usually. Can any other editing program help me with such high ISO? I will have to tell the client and issue a refund. Ugh. I have never done such a terrible job and I know it's 1000% my fault. The worse thing is not the refund, but That the pics are terrible. I feel awful for my client. How can I at least try salvage some of the pics? No black and white is requested.