Your Bad Shots

[Thad E Ginathom]

The camera moved. The flower moved. The manual focus was probably wrong anyway.

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But I was ever so tempted to pretend that I meant it to look like that!

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

The camera moved. The flower moved. The manual focus was probably wrong anyway.

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But I was ever so tempted to pretend that I meant it to look like that!

If you hadn't told us, we probably never would have known it was a bad shot.

 

[sven karma]

The bird moved. I moved. Probably should have clicked the shutter at some other split-second point in time.

ILCE-7S    ----       f/1.0    1/320s    ISO 250

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

The bird moved

It reminds me of one of those pics where the accused covers their face as they are taken into the court. That bird didn't want to be photographed!

 

[sven karma]

I was going to post this in the 'Phone shots you're pleased with' thread, but I didn't want other people to feel bad about their lack of phone camera skills:

Redmi Go    ---    3mm    f/2.0    1/370s    ISO 100

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Why I will never use my phone as a regular camera: the lens is in the place where my finger goes.

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

No, you're just holding your phone the wrong way.

 

[Tipton]

Too slow shutter turned little yappy dog into a blurry fuzzball.

ILCE-6500    70-210mm F4    210mm    f/8.0    1/40s    ISO 800

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Sorry, I was just leaving...

ILCE-7M2    FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS    105mm    f/6.3    1/200s    ISO 100

 

[davect01]

Sorry, I was just leaving...
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Anyone who has shot flying bugs has dozens of these

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Anyone who has shot flying bugs has dozens of these

Sorry Dave. I haven't been shooting flying bugs for very long so this was kind of a first for me. Usually the 'bug' is either in the shot or totally out of it. I got half-way lucky with this one, kinda.

 

[bdbits]

Maybe I was going for some nice toneh?

ILCE-7RM3    Voigtlander MACRO APO-LANTHAR 110mm F2.5    110mm    f/9.0    1/320s    ISO 200

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

I still need to figure out how to get the camera to focus in one spot, preferably in the middle of the frame.

ILCE-7M3    FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS    89mm    f/11.0    1/100s    ISO 100

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

I still need to figure out how to get the camera to focus in one spot, preferably in the middle of the frame.
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What's wrong? The camera captured that rebar perfectly! Oh, right: you forgot to make the aperture wide enough to blur out all that stuff in the background.

 

[unlo]

ILCE-7M2    ----       f/1.0    1/90s    ISO 200

on site this looked great on the camera
thought I had a sharper image in the viewfinder.
pretty fuzzy on the PC monitor
might need to get my eyes checked

 

[dbmiller]

Perhaps not so much bad, as inadvertent. Had the 200-600 on my A9 taking pictures of my wife on our new iSUP (inflatable Stand-Up Paddleboard). Camera was sitting in my lap and I leaned over to grab something and rested my arm right on the shutter button

ILCE-9    FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS    576mm    f/6.3    1/250s    ISO 640

 

[sven karma]

electronic shutter head-turner

ILCE-7S    ----       f/1.0    1/125s    ISO 1600

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

electronic shutter head-turner

Clockwork Robin?

 

[dbmiller]

Extreme RAW image recovery samples from the A9...

So I was shooting with the 24-105 @ f/8, switched to the 85mm, and had it set to f/2. On the first shot, the main flash didn't fire. On the second shot, the flash fired, but because I had been shooting at f/8, the flash power was still set from the prior f/8 shots, so it was severely over-exposed.

Original images on the left, with recovered images (Using Capture One) on the right. The over-exposed couldn't quite save the brightest part, but did pretty darn good.

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[WoodWorks]

I really like that recovered underexposed shot. Great light!