Assignment: "A Mistake" ?-July 15

[bastewart]

This is my first post here so it is questionable as to if I should start with the "mistake" posting.

Here it is anyway... I shot this in April of this year (2009) at a girl's softball practice. It was the first time I really messed with a zoom lens of any kind. I had mainly used a 50mm up to that point. Also, it was the first time I shot any real action and the first time experiencing the horrid lighting at local fields. Plus, being practice they didn't turn on the lights until they absolutely had to do so.

My mistake...I don't remember exactly, just that it was a goof up on my part. I was zoomed in too far, the composition was off, I was fighting lighting, shooting at IS0 1600 and the white balance was very bad. The irony is that I like the result and the player loved it. Then I took it into ACR and fixed it up a bit. I definitely like it now, even as a huge goof.



EXIF:
Camera: Canon 450D (Rebel XSi)
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS @ 187mm
Shot at: f/5.6 1/250 ISO1600
Date: April 7, 2009

[peteste]

Taken at the London Bloggers's meetup, in the dimly-lit upstairs bar of a pub in central London this week - the camera was on shutter priority and (perhaps because it had been pointed at the floor) had selected 15 seconds. These are some lights hanging down the wall opposite the bar

EXIF:
ISO: 100
Exposure: 15.0 sec
Aperture: 8.0
Focal Length: 55mm


ISO: 100
Exposure: 15.0 sec
Aperture: 8.0
Focal Length: 55mm

[ZoomZoom]

This photo I took on our last vacation. We were at Netherland in a small village named Watergang (near Amsterdam). The weather was wonderful (not typical to the Netherlands), I was so excited, thought the guide won't less us go down and take photos of this wonderful place. So, I took this one from the bus...

Two major mistake on this photo:

1. The window relection of the car I took this picture from.
2. Bad horizontal alignment.

EXIF:
Camera: Olympus C8080WZ
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 7.1 mm
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[monkey_soup]

Originally Posted by OeterB

This is a stunning concert photo! Truly, it is. Absolutely love it. I love when things focus on the wrong part doing gig shoots --- wind up with the most fascinating things.

Aw thanks! I'm rather overwhelmed by people liking it!
That was my first post here, having joined with a view to getting back into photography as I have been neglecting it for a while! Renewed faith now

Julie x

[F.McIntosh]

"Assignment: A Mistake" 01-01-09

Camera: Olympus E-510
Exposure: 0.6
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV


January 1st is the last day the festival of lights is open in Clemmons NC. I hadn't been since I was a kid so my husband and I decided to go. When we first got there, no one was in front or behind us so I made my husband pull over and I placed my camera settings real fast. I was inside the truck and needed to steady the camera for the slow shutter speed so I sat it on the dash. From the first time I pushed the shutter, cars started driving up, I kept getting angry and deleting them.
Finally there was a break and I tried to take another photo but 3 cars came through at the end. I gave up at that point and when I got home, found that I actually really liked the photo. I don't typically like light blurs of any kind but these looked cool.

[karwash]

This picture was taken during one of my first commercial shoots (commercial as in: the pictures are used to sell a product, not as in "I got paid loads of money"...). The items on sale are so-called retro scooters. I tried an artistic twist by taking a photograph of the scooters through the mirror of one of the scooters. Unfortunately what it displays at best is the fact that the mirror has a big dent in it... Not good for sales figures... I still like the outcome from that artistic point of view:



Date picture taken: March 15, 2009
EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 180 mm
Focal Length: 179.6 mm
ISO Speed: 200

[Gulpa]

Camera: Canon S3 IS
ISO: 800
Exposure: 0EV @ 1/200 sec
Aperture: 2.71

I was practicing macro photography with my P&S Canon, and while fiddling with the SuperMacro and Manual Focus buttons, I must have pressed the "Shortcut" button as well, which cranked the ISO to 800 I decided that I like the graininess of the image so I cropped the photo and played with the sharpness (if I remember correctly).

[freezeframe03]

Originally Posted by samhail

My in-laws were visiting so I decide to take some shots of my son with his Grandfather. I forgot to lower the ISO from a previous picture and the flash did not fire because I forgot to turn it on leaving the subjects with an orange skin tone. I was upset because I thought the mistake made me miss a nice moment between grandfather and grandson, but after some photoshopping I came up with this picture. It is now hanging on my wall and for the most part I'm pretty happy with it.
PS I was going to submit a picture of my ex girlfriend, but the pictures I took of her weren't the mistake. She was

Nice capture and save. But your "PS" made me chuckle out loud. hahaha

[shmelly]

While on a quest to get a water crown totally in focus I produced this. Still not quite sure what my problem was, I was getting a reflection across my lens from the lights, but why I was getting the fire works look I do not know.



Camera: Canon EOS 400D Digital
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 200 mm
Exposure: -0.85
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: -1 EV
Flash: On, Fired
Taken on
July 8, 2009 at 5.07pm EST

[thebubblybeginner]

[QUOTE=[B]samhail[/B];569081]My in-laws were visiting so I decide to take some shots of my son with his Grandfather. I forgot to lower the ISO from a previous picture and the flash did not fire because I forgot to turn it on leaving the subjects with an orange skin tone. I was upset because I thought the mistake made me miss a nice moment between grandfather and grandson, but after some photoshopping I came up with this picture. It is now hanging on my wall and for the most part I'm pretty happy with it.


This is just beautiful! What an amazing save!!! All my grandparents are passed and so is my father. What a treasure to have!