Assignment: "A Mistake" ?-July 15

[sayshh]

There are plenty of mistakes in this pic as you can see, I think I've got it all wrong with this one.

Zoomed in at equiv 80 mm, trying to handhold a 6 sec exposure with smallest aperture available on camera (f/8) at the lowest ISO.

Canon PowerShot A570 IS; f/8, 6 sec exposure; ISO 80; 80 mm equiv (approx); EV 0.
Date: 29/03/2009
Time: 7.33 PM

[snakeapple1948]

Originally Posted by rt80639

Going Home


Photo of a homeless man going under a bridge, where he sleeps. I rushed to take the shot, and left the camera in aperture priority mode. The shutter speed was way too long, but the blurred effect actually portrayed the mood of the evening quite well. More info on my blog.

Date: April 4, 2009
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure: 0.5
Aperture: f/2.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Flash: Off
Lens: Sigma 50mm f1.4

This has been submitted in the past for "In the City". Is this okay to enter, or should I post something else?

Absolutely stunning! Not only is the image beautiful in itself, but it captures the spirit of the problem.

Bill

[BesouroLaranja]

Nikon D50
Nikkor AI 50mm f/1.4 (non-mettering lens)
f/1.4
1/30 s

I usually try some pictures before the real deal when using my prime. This was the first one of the photo shoot, intended just for adjusting shutter speed, angle of the model in relation to the light, etc. Insted, I got a nice photo with a big flare from my UV filter and a lot of spilling light. One of my favorites.

[kittylitter]

Hello, long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I thought I would join in the fun and try some of these assignments. It was hard narrowing down a mistake this week, since I have so many of them. I'm still learning so I make lots of mistakes.

This photo was taken in 2007 while visiting the Aquarium in Atlanta, GA. I was using a P&S camera. I had no idea what the settings on the dial were so I left it in auto, since that seemed to be the only way I could get a picture to not look crazy blurry or super strange. I knew nothing about composition so the picture is crooked and there is a black border at the top. The water looks a little hazy also. I had lots of photos from that day and was of course dissappointed in the quality of most of them. This one stood out because I loved the shadows of the people looking at the fishes and the light beaming down into the tank on the right.



May 11, 2007
Canon PowerShot S2IS
ISO- 81
f/2.7
.125s (1/8)

I've learned a lot since 2007 and I decided to try to clean it up a bit and you can see the edited version on my flickr.

[mjconn]

This picture arose from a mix of ignorance, inexperience and serendipity. I shot this in a bike path underpass in Missoula Montana in February 2008. I had recently bought a Nikon 50mm f1.8 (my first lens ever that came even close to that f-stop), but hadn't played with it in low light yet. I remember thinking that the 50mm should be able to handle the limited light in the tunnel and snapped a photo. The result was a blurry silhouette of my friends with a slightly blurred view of the winter landscape in front of them outside the tunnel. I liked it. It has a surreal look, the blurring of the figures is not too harsh, the scene ahead is discernible, and the snow outside leant a brightness and good contrast to the dark interior (nice for the monochrome conversion). But I did take away some lessons from this picture.

1. There is a limit to what types of "low-light", hand-held pictures any wide aperture lens can handle. I now know when a tripod is needed.

2. The dumbest thing I did: even if the 50mm could have exposed a sharp shot with the ambient light, I took the picture on Aperture mode but never changed it from f22 from an earlier landscape when I wanted greater DOF. I now switch my lenses back and walk around with them on f8. A solid f-stop for spontaneous pictures and it's easier to get to lower and higher f-stops from the mid-range f8 if I have time to set up a desired DOF for a picture.

[mego88]

(A Mistake on Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

As I was light painting one of my friend's car, another car drove past revealing me...


Camera: Nikon D60
Lens:18-55mm
Date Taken: 02 July 2009
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 48.1
Aperture: F3.5

[RiyaziM]

Assignment: A Mistake

Darkness
Many might think that this image is a "mistake" in composition and lighting because of
1) the cropped off face
2) disregard for rule of thirds
3) lack of proper detail
4) lack of proper light
but I liked how it turned out as an image and as a self portrait.



Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 70 mm
Exposure: +0.50
ISO Speed: 100

[cmosdall]

I was trying to get a shot of a Bee in a frozen state with my Beercan lens. But the shutter speed was too slow and the shot was not in focus. Leaning how to drive a technically advanced camera is not easy. The metering mode/ focus point is difficult to master but I keep trying. The only thing in this picture that’s perfect is the leaf at the forefront – but I love the overall effect. Not a bad attempt really, the focal length is 210mm (in Macro mode) and I’m standing about 50cm away from the subject. Anyway, it was a beautiful, warm, sunny Sunday afternoon and the lavender smelt wonderful, the wine was sweet – a nice time to take photos.




Camera: Sony DSLR-A350
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 210 mm
ISO Speed: 125
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[twin wire hang overs]

This was taken outside a car window, and I had to rush to take it because we were driving by it fast.
I didn't even look through the lens,, it came out blurry, but I like the feel, so I kept it.



Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

[Medicineman]

Playing with my new camera settings and the shutter speed too long which apparently results in over exposure and blurry lines. Converted to B&W and it makes a nice wallpaper for my computer screen.




Camera: Nikon D60
Exposure: 0.125 sec (1/8)
Aperture: f/5.3
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: +4 EV
Flash: No Flash