Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: stamper on September 01, 2015, 08:32:34 am
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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?
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I would, but the LuLa server may not have enough free terabytes <g>.
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Here's one but I have to agree with Peter, the LuLa server would need to be seriously boosted just for me (and Peter)!
:D
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You can do worse than that surely? ;)
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You can do worse than that surely? ;)
OK, I'll try to dig out something more substantial.
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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
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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.
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Call me crazy, but I rather like the pictures you guys posted.
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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.
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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?
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I can do worse than this but this is a little frustrating miss
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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. :'(
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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!
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8841/16711982453_529a797a40_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rsMh9v)IMGP9259 (https://flic.kr/p/rsMh9v) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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I leave it to your imagination to see what those photos looked like. :'(
You were performing dark-frame subtraction before the digital age… :D
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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!
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8841/16711982453_529a797a40_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rsMh9v)IMGP9259 (https://flic.kr/p/rsMh9v) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
You failed to fail, Matt: that's quite an interesting abstract you 'landed' up with, I think. Work on it.
;-)
Rob C
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You were performing dark-frame subtraction before the digital age… :D
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... :(
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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.
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Was it Robert Capa who remarked that if your picture's not good enough, it's because you're not close enough?
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Rob C
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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! :P
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Was it Robert Capa who remarked that if your picture's not good enough, it's because you're not close enough?
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Rob C
That would've made it even worse! :D
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That would've made it even worse! :D
Yeah, but don't forget: Capa was Magnum.
Rob
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This isn't a total failure from the outset; it's worse.
Mediocre concept>a lot of post-processing time>mediocre result.
I could have saved myself a lot of trouble if I'd
trashed it at the beginning.
Resignedly,
Dale
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I put a square flashlight beam on a five pointed flower and then pretented at length that it just needed more work.
Bruce
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Have you since acquired a flashlight with a five-sided beam? ;)
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Have you since acquired a flashlight with a five-sided beam? ;)
So, you really were a mathematician!
Rob
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So, you really were a mathematician!
Rob
Well, not really a mathematician. More like a Professor of math. "Profess" means pretty much the same as "pretend," so a "professor" is someone who pretends to know something about his or her field. I managed to keep up the pretense for 35 years, and happily retired so I could spend more time pretending to be a photographer. ;D
Eric
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Well, not really a mathematician. More like a Professor of math. "Profess" means pretty much the same as "pretend," so a "professor" is someone who pretends to know something about his or her field. I managed to keep up the pretense for 35 years, and happily retired so I could spend more time pretending to be a photographer. ;D
Eric
We all tend to PROFESS from time to time...
Peter
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We all tend to PROFESS from time to time...
Peter
Thanks, Peter. So I am not alone.
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Thanks, Peter. So I am not alone.
Humanity has much in common, rather than not...We just like to think we do.
Peter
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Thanks, Peter. So I am not alone.
During my time in a Tibetan monastery - must have lived in one for seventy-seven years - daily windowsill entertainment found in watching the vultures do their eternal clean-up work was often spoiled by that chance glance into the mirrors on my walls. Those instantly broke my belief that I was alone: the bloody cell was crowded!
;-(
Rob C
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Two cheetahs chasing each other, running withing few meters of me. This is what I got with 600 mm while trying to keep the animal in the viewfinder.