Your Bad Shots

[dbmiller]

2. When the camera is in vertical (portrait) it behaves differently regarding the focus point.

Check your setting for the menu item "Swt. V/H AF Area" - You have it set to keep different focus areas when it portrait vs landscape orientation.

Edit: For the A7iii, it should be in the "Camera Settings 1" menu.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Miller for the help !
Indeed I have been changing that setting recently. I will have a look and let you know.
Cheers !

 

[Tipton]

Kingfisher startled me by flying in front of my face, so I shot from the hip and this is the result.

X-H1    XF55-200mmF3.5-4.8 R LM OIS    200mm    f/6.4    1/2000s    ISO 400

 

[Richard Crowe]

Attempting to pose multiple dogs is (IMO) geometrically more difficult than shooting a single dog. It helps to have an assistant but, sometimes the assistant gets in the way...

ILCE-7M3    FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS    70mm    f/8.0    1/60s    ISO 320

This is the way it finally turned out...

ILCE-7M3    FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS    70mm    f/8.0    1/60s    ISO 320

 

[Antonio Correia]

I couldn't correctly control this image. It is terrible

DMC-GX7    OLYMPUS M.7-14mm F2.8    14mm    f/5.0    1/400s    ISO 200

 

[fractal]

Perfectly focused...on my watch.

ILCE-7RM2    FE 24mm F1.4 GM    24mm    f/1.4    1/40s    ISO 100

 

[bdbits]

It looks like a nice watch. No doubt the camera picked up on that.

 

[dbmiller]

Probably focused on the closest face ?

 

[christilou]

ILCE-9    FE 85mm F1.4 GM    85mm    f/1.4    1/1000s    ISO 100

Took a whole series of these ..... put a polarising filter on my 85mm which I have used lots of times ..... this time

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Testing to see if my remote would work with the A9. Yup, it does.

ILCE-9    FE 28mm F2    28mm    f/2.2    1/160s    ISO 1250

 

[Antonio Correia]

To the trash bin !

ILCE-7M3    FE 24mm F2.8 G    24mm    f/5.6    1/1000s    ISO 100

 

[Antonio Correia]

Another one to the trash bin !

ILCE-7M3    FE 24mm F2.8 G    24mm    f/2.8    1/2000s    ISO 100

 

[sapoeijoek]

Another one to the trash bin !

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This one isn't bad at all.

 

[Antonio Correia]

This one isn't bad at all.

Really ?
And why I don't like it ? Because the perspective is too strong and all the photograph is too deformed by the lens.
There isn't any light directly on the guy. Nothing. In fact with this light a direct one is impossible.
It was the only lens in the bag this morning. Perhaps this is just a poor excuse ?‍
The project is "On the wings of Morpheus".
Thank you Edwin for commenting !

 

[sapoeijoek]

Really ?
And why I don't like it ? Because the perspective is too strong and all the photograph is too deformed by the lens.
There isn't any light directly on the guy. Nothing. In fact with this light a direct one is impossible.
It was the only lens in the bag this morning. Perhaps this is just a poor excuse ?‍
The project is "On the wings of Morpheus".
Thank you Edwin for commenting !

Ah, I see.
I consider this a street shot. In my opinion, street shots don't need beautiful complex lighting that falls on the subjects. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?
Anyway, you're welcome, Antonio.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Edwin, I agree but the image is supposed to have something peculiar about it. This one doesn't
It is like the previous one I have posted: badly framed, subject at the center... no
If it is sharp ? Yes it is but that is not enough !

 

[WoodWorks]

I think I agree with Edwin here, Antonio. To me there's a difference between a "bad" shot, and one that's merely "not-as-good-as-I-hoped."

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Sometimes, the words "there's just no point in this pic," accompany it on its way to my waste bin.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

This was not a good concert for me. I have lots of pics of perfectly-focussed microphones.

But, at least this one made me laugh. I even spent a short time post-processing it.

One for violin-bow lovers:

ILCE-6500    E 70-180mm F2.8 A056    139mm    f/2.8    1/250s    ISO 1600

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Thought I'd put the new lens to the test and make a new avatar shot. Opps.