Show us your worst.

[stamper]

Members are inclined to post their "best" efforts but delete their "worst". Yesterday I had two auto focus failures and a lot more - but rather than delete them I am posting them. Now how about others posting theirs?

[PeterAit]

I would, but the LuLa server may not have enough free terabytes <g>.

[francois]

Here's one but I have to agree with Peter, the LuLa server would need to be seriously boosted just for me (and Peter)!

 

[stamper]

You can do worse than that surely?

[francois]

You can do worse than that surely?

OK, I'll try to dig out something more substantial.

[Rob C]

Caution, stamper, I think you're skating a very fine line between fun and cruelty with these 'rejects' you want to show.

Is that what street's about these days?

Rob C

[louoates]

I've seen -- and shot -- far worse street than those. In fact, matching the focus of the background, along with the muddy grittiness of the processing is quite interesting.

[BobDavid]

Call me crazy, but I rather like the pictures you guys posted.

[BobDavid]

I think this is about the cheesiest picture I've taken over the past few years. At the time, I was on horrible medication. During that time, I worked on a series of nauseating pictures.

[stamper]

I've seen -- and shot -- far worse street than those. In fact, matching the focus of the background, along with the muddy grittiness of the processing is quite interesting.

I normally straighten my images and try to make them as "presentable" as possible. Others don't seem to do that and I am now appreciating the "unpolished" look they present. Something to explore?

[armand]

I can do worse than this but this is a little frustrating miss

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I have so many candidates for my "worst" that it will take me quite a while to whittle them down to few enough to post.

Among my personal favorite "worsts" from film days were from my much loved Mamiya 6, my first rangefinder camera in about forty years. For the first couple of rolls of film I shot with it, the first few images were totally blank -- until I noticed that the lens cap was still on! (Blush!!)

I leave it to your imagination to see what those photos looked like.   

[MattBurt]

Here's me crashing into my own camera on (soon to be off) my mountain bike. So not only was it a bad shot it was lousy bike handling as well!
IMGP9259 by Matt Burt, on Flickr

[francois]

…
I leave it to your imagination to see what those photos looked like.   

You were performing dark-frame subtraction before the digital age… 

[Rob C]

Here's me crashing into my own camera on (soon to be off) my mountain bike. So not only was it a bad shot it was lousy bike handling as well!
IMGP9259 by Matt Burt, on Flickr

You failed to fail, Matt: that's quite an interesting abstract you 'landed' up with, I think. Work on it.

;-)

Rob C

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

You were performing dark-frame subtraction before the digital age… 

Right. I subtracted two or three very dark frames from each of at least two 12-image rolls.   

Of course, those might well have been my best shots ever, if only... 

[razrblck]

Of the few I kept, there's this one film shot from the Bronica. I don't know why I thought it was ok at the time, it's awfully dark and the reflected light from the leaves above casts ugly shadows on the model's face. On top of that I slightly missed focus and underexposed, as you can see from all the grain the scanner found while trying to get the picture to show up.

[Rob C]

Was it Robert Capa who remarked that if your picture's not good enough, it's because you're not close enough?

;-)

Rob C

[MattBurt]

You failed to fail, Matt: that's quite an interesting abstract you 'landed' up with, I think. Work on it.

;-)

Rob C

Oh great, I can't even get failure right!  

[razrblck]

Was it Robert Capa who remarked that if your picture's not good enough, it's because you're not close enough?

;-)

Rob C

That would've made it even worse!