What fleeting moment would you re-shoot?

[Takkun]

The 'visual impact is more important than gear' made me think about images I'd shot in years past, ones that can't be recreated, and how I'd change my technical approach. In particular, a number of poor choices of lenses, film, and what have you.

Two situations come to mind:
First is a wedding I shot years and years ago, where I shot part film, part digital. Had a zoom on each, at the ready, for any situation necessary. In retrospect, I wish I had skipped the digital, and just kept with primes. I got all the requisite shots, but I never liked the look of the zoom lenses, and wish I had the confidence to forgo them.

Another was more recent; this last summer, when I took up serious architectural work, I kept with HP5 for about 20 rolls. I've been shooting it for nearly a decade, and always loved it for photographing people and urban grit, but photographing architectural details in the summer sun wasn't a good combination.

 

[thegman]

The most spectacular sunset I've ever seen, I only had a phone camera with me, which could not capture it in the slightest. I simply did not bother to take a real camera that day.

 

[Harry S.]

Any time a pretty lady has allowed me to photograph her nude. 😉

 

[helen.HH]

Simple, though I was not the shooter
It was All about a Kiss...
Me kissing Erwitt and the Smile 'it' put on his Face

 

[xia_ke]

The candids from my honeymoon. My old Luna Pro was on it's way out. I was shooting slide film and made sure to bracket as much as I could, but with the candids I didn't have a chance to and many came out under exposed by a stop or so.