Post Your Favourite Rejects Here

[F8&Bthere]

Here's another screw up that somehow works for me. At my son's last birthday party in the local park, I tried to get an interesting perspective by laying on the ground. And the two boys here sorta posed and I took a quick shot before even thinking of focus mode or technique, and of course the camera's AF grabbed the "barrel" of the gun pointed at me. So at home when this shot loaded on the computer, my 1st thought was well that's a reject, but then I looked again and thought about the whole story behind it, and immediately thought to myself- it looks like I just got whacked by the Dollar Store Mafia....and I just get such a chuckle out of it ever since....that I was lying on my back with my vision going blurry staring up the barrel of a toy plastic pistol.

[casil403]

Iggy, I like something about that one too, but i get what u mean about missing something. I guess the mind expects to see a chess piece of some sort?

Casil, I really like the HDR flower shot. On the native feet shots, were you right up at the pow-wow stage wearing a cowboy hat (light colored), got there before the show began, a little right of center stage (stage left i think they call it)?

I was slightly right of center stage not quite upfront...probably about 8 feet back slightly on the hill. I was wearing a purple shirt, had a pentax camera, black camera bag and light coloured shorts...no cowboy hat. I am quite tall for a girl so you might have noticed me (most people do). If you were the person I saw, you had a pentax camera, grey-ish short hair, light coloured shirt of some kind and standing taking pictures to my left and slightly forward if I remember right..
And yes I did get there before the show started.

[casil403]

F8...love that last one and the story behind it!

[kurtdriver]

Anybody know what happened here? I shot with ISO 100 film and it appears awful grainy to me, or is it just washed out? That's grass in the foreground but you'd never know it.

[F8&Bthere]

Anybody know what happened here? I shot with ISO 100 film and it appears awful grainy to me, or is it just washed out? That's grass in the foreground but you'd never know it.

Hard for me to tell with my unrefined eye but usually grain/noise is more a problem with underexposed shots. So unless this was a dark shot that you boosted heavily exposure or brightness in post processing I'd say you have a combination of wide aperture giving you a very thin depth of field (giving you a lot of blur in places where it maybe doesn't belong, at least not in this particular shot from that angle) and slight overexposure. And I'm also wondering about how it was converted to B&W- looks like individual colours need to be tweaked. Anyone else got a better guess?

[kurtdriver]

Hard for me to tell with my unrefined eye

I have the same problem, I'm afraid.

And I'm also wondering about how it was converted to B&W- looks like individual colours need to be tweaked.

That was shot on black and white film, TMax 100, no conversion. On second glance it isn't really grainy, the tree shows that, so I don't even have the vocabulary to describe what I see there.
Thank you, Kurt

[JAS_Photo]

F8, too bad you can not see up the barrel of those dime store bandits pistol! That would make the shot!

[F8&Bthere]

@kurt just goes to show how digital-centric my mind works these days, hehe
@Raiven- Exactly!, I almost wanted to try photoshopping it to look more like a real barrel, but then I thought ahh poo, the kid on the left is holding a colourful plastic something rather anyway and the whole idea of the gun being anything other than a cheap toy, barrel or not, sorta fits the concept since it's nothing but a novelty shot at best....nearly in the reject pile no less...and not worth the kinda time it'd take me- a PS newb- to pull off.

[F8&Bthere]

and another... badly overexposed yet interesting in an abstract sorta way

[casil403]

Here's a shot of a kingfisher I followed around the pond for I/2 an hour () and attempted to catch...every time I got anywhere reasonably close she did this....Blurry as heck,and noisy too but then again I sort of like it! The brown belt around her middle makes her a she....males don't have that.
If it were sharp it would'a been the shot of the day!