Your Bad Shots

lol... funny idea. Thing is, I delete my bad shots. Of course, I'll likely as not have more this week, and post one here if I remember.

 

I know I have a blurry macro shot of my thumb somewhere...

 

This is SOETTR (Severely Over Expose To The Right).

"NEX-3"    "E 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS"          1/60s   

 

Zone focussing fail

ILCE-7S    ----    0mm    f/1.0    1/640s    ISO 100

 

Angles are so cool.

NEX-3    E 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS    26mm       1/125s    ISO 200

NEX-3    E 16mm F2.8    16mm       1/30s    ISO 250

 

What were those Dutch thinking?!  

 

I just remembered I had some legendarily bad pics of Mackinac Bridge in my phones trash can. To my credit, all of these were taken from the back of a rocking shrimp boat. (and i didn't import them into lightroom when I got home, but i had used Playmemories to back them up to my phone in the field.)

 

Canon fanboy: "Told ya IBIS isn't as good as lens IS!"  

 

these aren't bad shots, they're "abstract" shots.

 

Look, it's "fine art photography!"

(I once had someone on another forum get incensed with me because I did this)

edit: In fact, I'm going to post one of these on Insta and see what happens.

 

I could so own this thread, but you guys don't want to see why.

 

Taken during a 7.0 Earthquake or just bad photography?

NEX-3    E 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS    18mm       1/2s    ISO 800

 

^^^^I can just about guarantee that that photo is just bad photography, Chris.

During a 7.0 earthquake you're not going to be worried about taking a picture. Don't ask me how I know.

 

I could say I've never taken a "bad shot" but it would be a lie. I take them every day and it's usually motion blur. All of my digital cameras have decent image stabilization but the nerve damage in my elbows sometimes makes my hands shake and sometimes it defeats the IS. And sometimes I'm just a clumsy oaf. Maybe I'll save a few of the clinkers and upload them.

 

OP, I trash em. But here is one for a book I did. I had to make something out of it as I only had a few days to make the book. If the photo can't be half-ass with PP then it must be relinquished as trash.

Here is before...

X-E1    ---    21mm    f/1.0    1/250s    ISO 3200

Here is after...

X-E1    ---    21mm    f/1.0    1/250s    ISO 3200

Original was also crooked, so I straightened. It is hell shooting there. Photography is illegal, it is lit like a darkroom safelight. The photos look worse on this forum. In hi-res and printed they are not nearly that bad, just 'somewhat' bad.

Google...'An example of what 2-1/2 hours of Lightroom can do for a photograph' that will give you a better idea of my trash and salvaging that trash. Shot it back in the early 70's when I was 19.

Here are Robert Franks proof sheets from The Americans, we all take crappers if we do street work. Check them out for trash.

Robert Frank’s ‘The Rejected Americans’……You Choose!