Your worst work

[LaFoto]

There IS no "one - my worst". I have ALBUMS full of really awful photography - but dear photos to me when they are of my kids!
I will need to fire up the good old scanner to let you see some, most are film and prints on paper.

 

[LaFoto]

Here we go: this is still one of the really GOOD photos I took of my first-born when he was a baby back in 1980:

The majority were like this (and yes, even back then I KNEW I had taken a BAD photo!)

But when you take a maximum of 36 photos at a given period of time, you don't throw them away happily - well, I didn't.
Those were still taken with the Rollei35 - I don't think I'd had been in touch with any kind of SLR camera at the time.

 

[jhodges10]

AND my personal "favorite":

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This must have been just as I was collapsing from the lack of sleep and caffeine withdrawal[/QUOTE]


Winner winner chicken dinner! Someone's going to bring their A game...I mean F game to beat an out of focus soccer ball with no context. Well played mam.

 

[jhodges10]

This is pretty bad. And I have a few that look pretty much the same!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/forkie/368251838/
Housesteads by Forkie, on Flickr

In my defence, it was taken in 2007 just before I properly decided to take photography more seriously. And it was with a Canon Powershot A75. Piece of poo!

That's truly bad but currently in 2nd place as far as I can tell. We need a way to set up a poll for people to vote.

 

[Jaemie]

^^ Those (Corinna's) really aren't so bad. Well, #2 is getting close with bad focus, bad lighting, and poor shocked baby. Hehe..

But in general, photos of your own kids are never bad, even when they are truly awful in every possible way.

 

[LaFoto]

The sad thing is that I carried on taking bad photos of my kids (in the sense of "good" or "bad photography", mind, they're photos of my kids, so they aren't REALLY "bad", like you're saying) for 10 or more years. Those of my second son aren't so much better, either.
But then the photo of my first-born will always be EXTRA dear to me!

 

[jhodges10]

Here we go: this is still one of the really GOOD photos I took of my first-born when he was a baby back in 1980:


But when you take a maximum of 36 photos at a given period of time, you don't throw them away happily - well, I didn't.
Those were still taken with the Rollei35 - I don't think I'd had been in touch with any kind of SLR camera at the time.

The baby in jail shot is nice but look at that wallpaper in the first shot, nice.thats almost as good as the Betsy Ross wallpaper in my room when I was a kid. It was red white and blue and no kidding was a repeating pattern of Betsy Ross sewing a flag. Thanks for bringing back that memory, guess I'll go schedule a therapy appt.

 

[LaFoto]

You are right: you DID need a therapy appointment with that wallpaper. But we were poor and the walls were decorated like that and we couldn't afford to tear off this perfectly tight wallpaper, so it stayed.

 

[snowbear]

Snowbear were you ordering a three finger highball or were you already drunk?

Actually - I cheated. That was not a "real" photo attempt, but a flag for a series for a panorama (everything between the hands gets stitched together).

How about a real failure . . . what happens when you rush and don't set the exposure correctly.

 

[EIngerson]

Negligent shutter release. lol. My elbow hit the release twice. This one focused.

 

[spacefuzz]

I have taken so many bad photos....where to start?

 

[Forkie]

This is pretty bad. And I have a few that look pretty much the same!


Housesteads by Forkie, on Flickr

In my defence, it was taken in 2007 just before I properly decided to take photography more seriously. And it was with a Canon Powershot A75. Piece of poo!

That's truly bad but currently in 2nd place as far as I can tell. We need a way to set up a poll for people to vote.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

 

[Compaq]

What about a poorly stitched 59 frame composite?


great success! by Anders Myhre Brakestad, on Flickr

 

[mishele]

Man, I have sooo many from my Fight Club days!! lol

 

[jhodges10]

What about a poorly stitched 59 frame composite?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63790041@N04/7955005082/
great success! by Anders Myhre Brakestad, on Flickr

Depends, explain to me why it's 59 and not 60 and that may earn you a seat at the table. Otherwise this is mediocre work and not worthy of consideration for worst in show.