A couple bloopers

Battou · Mar 16, 2009

Lol Misfocus
Taken with Canon FD 100mm Macro on Canon EF, ASA 200 (Auto color correction, sharpen and resize only)
[IMG - Broken]

Good pan, bad spot
Taken (handheld) with Vivitar 400mm on Canon EF, ASA 400 (Auto color correction, sharpen and resize only)

LaFoto · Mar 16, 2009

Oh my ... I could FILL the "Just for Fun" -section with bloopers of mine! I have heaps and heaps of them...

"Good pan bad spot" makes me smile somehow

... reminds me of almost all my attempts to photograph ducks in flight, and wouldn't there always bee bushes or shrubbery or twigs in my frames??? Geesh, with my attempted "ducks-in-flight-photos" alone I could fill this section with bloopers!

Battou · Mar 16, 2009

LaFoto said:
Oh my ... I could FILL the "Just for Fun" -section with bloopers of mine! I have heaps and heaps of them...
"Good pan bad spot" makes me smile somehow ... reminds me of almost all my attempts to photograph ducks in flight, and wouldn't there always bee bushes or shrubbery or twigs in my frames??? Geesh, with my attempted "ducks-in-flight-photos" alone I could fill this section with bloopers!

Yeah...:mrgreen: I could post somany more as well but these two are the most reasent.

As for the duck, I actually have tons of problems with panning on them, nine times out of ten they are OoF and/or their wings are nothing but blur, this one was really good except for the brush that jumpped out infront of me :lmao:

polymoog · Mar 17, 2009

Maybe we should start a "bloopers" thread, have seen them on other forums, can be really amusing to look at, plus some of the mistakes turn out actually quite artistic

I also have loads of candidates, but I don't want to bog down Battous thread ;-)

Battou · Mar 17, 2009

polymoog said:
Maybe we should start a "bloopers" thread, have seen them on other forums, can be really amusing to look at, plus some of the mistakes turn out actually quite artistic I also have loads of candidates, but I don't want to bog down Battous thread ;-)

Go ahead and post them, if there are enough contributers the thread can always be relocated.

Feel free to post some. :thumbup:

samal · Mar 18, 2009

hm, I just got an idea - if there was a website that would offer upload for photograper's "bloopers", you think there would be some entertaining value in it.

Of course there would have to be some copyright provisions to it, but the idea would be that everyone would be able to upload images that they took in "blooper" category and those images would be displayed on that site after editorial approval. May be some contests and stuff...

It would be non commercial, entertainment value only site. Do you think people would visit it and find it interesting and entertaining?

Crazydad · Mar 18, 2009

Battou said:
Go ahead and post them, if there are enough contributers the thread can always be relocated.

Feel free to post some. :thumbup:

I'll throw this one out there. The shot I have been looking for and somehow my camera screwed it up (it couldn't have been MY fault...;-) :banghead::banghead::banghead

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Battou · Mar 19, 2009

Here is one of my older ones, it was a misfire at my desk.

Taken with Canon FD 50mm 1.4 on Canon EF, ASA 800

Took me forever to figure out what it was...Even then I still could not tell you how I managed to under expose it that much all things considered.

polymoog · Mar 19, 2009

Here's 4 of mine, just for starters ;-)

Didn't quite get the whole subject in frame ...

Slightly overexposed snow ...

Why did I even press the button, not only is half the guy's head missing, some other bloke is just passing by ...

Slightly underexposed image ...

dwol · Mar 22, 2009

hahaha, I love your wording polymoog for your bloopers

funny as!

polymoog · Mar 22, 2009

Thanks ;-) The worst part is I have so many of them ... might post some more later.

Battou · Mar 24, 2009

My all time favorite blooper can be found Here. I liked that one so much I felt it deserved a thread of it's own in the general gallery.

A couple others of mine from over the years:

Don't shoot birds through the leaves....it don't work

Shot with Vivatar 400mm on Vivitar 2X TC on Canon EF handheld

Yeah...two and a half minuets of exposure time still did not work.
Shot with Canon 50mm 1.4 on Canon EF, ASA 800

...Another misfocus (AF)
Taken with Kodak C743

Don't ask

Taken with Kodak Signet 40

polymoog · Mar 24, 2009

Haha cool, esp that last one, I think that goes in the category "artistic lisence"

And I really like your Fast Building, that's definitely more art than mistake, even if it wasn't intentional

Here are 3 more from my "don't ring us, we'll ring you" collection :

Mental note : lock shutter release button on battery grip when carrying camera ...

Timing is everything, here the saying "better late than never" does not apply ...

30 seconds is not an appropriate sync time when using a flash ...

Battou · Mar 29, 2009

lol don't get me started on missfires.

Missfire - Vivitar 400mm on Canon AE-1

leighthal · Mar 29, 2009

LOL, All I can think of with this one is "those people" doing a C&C and saying....
Your subject is too centered.
Focus is off a tad
Have you ever heard of the straighten tool?
Clone tool!!!!!

Made me smile Battou.