Breaking Bad (In photographic un-style)

Overread · Aug 11, 2014

Yes its time to see your worst - break the rules - break all the rules - break them bad! We want to see your worst - your shots that just don't work; the ones that leave you shaking your head and thinking its time to hang up the camera (at least for 20seconds).

(ps this is all pgriz's idea and Erose supported it so if it goes bad its their fault - -- er wait shouldn't that be if it goes good?).

Missed focus - handshake blur - poorish exposure - subject way heading into the wrong corner - lots of wasted space - bright shiny highlight all over the birds back!

Designer · Aug 11, 2014

Oh, man, this is EASY! I've got so many that it is difficult to choose!

Anyway, here is one:

missed focus
camera movement
blown highlights
symmetrical composition slightly off center
indefinite composition (missed the floor)

limr · Aug 11, 2014

Oh you want to talk missed focus? Here's me getting used to a split-screen focus on an OM-2: (view them large to better see the suckage)

Nope

Even worse:

Sort of better on one little figurine but still a big fat NOPE:

In my defense, the split-screen system confused me a little. When the image looked in focus to me, the split screen still wasn't quite even. When it was even, it looked a bit blurry to my eyes. I didn't know which one to trust. I don't know if this is an issue with calibration or with my eyes. I'm still trying to get used to it.

Derrel · Aug 11, 2014

So, I'm trying out a lens adapter, a Fotodiox brand Nikon G- to Canon adapter in late January of 2012, and I have good focus on these geese winging their way overhead, and I want to get them as they fly behind a wintery tree outside my apartment, to create a sort of migrating-geese-as-seen-through-barren-wintertime-tree-branches kind of feeling. So, I focus on the geese, and shoot a frame or two like this:

[ _MG_8907_Nikon 200 wide open 5D_AC.jpg photo - Derrel photos at pbase.com ]

And THEN, just as the shot actually really comes together, you know, so that I can actually get what I was hoping to achieve, like an idiot I decide to manually refocus a bit...thus blowing the shot I actually wanted to make!

[ _MG_8909.JPG photo - Derrel photos at pbase.com ]

pjaye · Aug 11, 2014

Oh I have many for this thread. But they are all at home. Marking my spot to post when I get home.

limr · Aug 11, 2014

Derrel, I still really like that second one! So dream-like

Ysarex · Aug 11, 2014

Hey guys! Got these totally awesome new LR presets! Taking my fototogrpy up anoter knoch for sure!

Claire

Derrel · Aug 11, 2014

limr said:
Derrel, I still really like that second one! So dream-like

You really are a glass half-full kinda' lady! Maybe I should have processed the second shot? I looked through about thirty folders on this computer just to come up with the above entry, which left me feeling kind of dejected, since I have kill-filed plenty of realllllly bad shots that would have been PERFECT for this thread!