PF PHOTO CONTEST - Bad Picture 3 (8/2-8/8)

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The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed around "bad pictures," where participants are encouraged to submit photos that are technically poor due to issues like fuzziness, underexposure, or overexposure. The rules specify that photos must be taken accidentally, without digital manipulation, and only one submission per member is allowed. Participants share their experiences with taking bad photos, often involving humorous anecdotes about their attempts to capture images of pets, particularly cats and butterflies. Many express a tendency to delete poor-quality images immediately, while others reflect on the comedic value of their "bad" shots. The conversation also includes playful banter about the nature of the submitted photos, with some participants joking about the peculiarities of their images, such as glowing animals or abstract shapes. Overall, the thread highlights a lighthearted community engagement with photography and the shared experience of capturing imperfect moments.
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Bad Picture 3

This theme has always been one of our more popular theme. Find a photo that you took that is really bad. This degree of "badness" can be due to fuzzyness, underexposure, overexposure, etc. Any picture that it technically bad qualifies.

NOTE: You cannot use pictures that have been purposely taken to have a poor quality. These must have been taken accidentally and not on purpose to be bad. It is reemphasized that digital manipulation of the pictures are not allowed in the PF Photo Contest.

Zz.

Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 650 x 490 or 490 x 650 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. These pictures must be something that you took, not something taken off someone else's photo albums or taken by someone else. I have no way of checking if you did this, so we'll go by the honor system.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread.

Zz.
 
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Eh, running out of topics?
 
Love this topic! I have soooo many pics to choose from :rolleyes::wink:...
 
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/327/badkittytr9.jpg
 
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Ooh! Where to start?
 
I'd enter if it were a real contest, and if I had any photos that fit, but I GET RID OF my bad ones...
 
OMG!

I have so many bad pictures, I don't know which one to choose.
 
I have to see if I deleted all the really bad ones already. I might still have some lingering from recent photo attempts (while in HI, I tried playing with macro settings, and was fairly unsuccessful, getting great big blurs...I think I deleted them, but you never know...but I figured out some of my errors along the way and am getting better at using that feature now).
 
Cute couple, apart from the ornament-induced nose-inflation!:smile:
 
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:smile::smile:...love it...that is so damn funny, larkspur...:smile::smile:
 
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lisab said:
:smile::smile:...love it...that is so damn funny, larkspur...:smile::smile:

Glad it makes you laugh lisab! :smile:
It was a toss up between that one or http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2726611362_3b85467610_o.jpg".
 
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Here is a picture of an incredibly beautiful and well-camouflaged beetle on a sunflower blossom. I liked the picture so well that I failed to delete it (Die! Die! Die!)
badsunflower.jpg
 
  • #14
I'll have to browse scanned negatives. All digital images that I consider bad are deleted immediately.
 
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Oh nuts, I have a bad habit of deleting the bad ones.:smile:
 
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  • #17
This should definitely qualify! It gave me vertigo just opening it to resize it.
badphoto.jpg


It was an attempt to get a photo of a butterfly when I stopped in the scenic lookout area for the New River Bridge. There were lots of butterflies and bees, so I decided to play with camera settings to see if I could photograph them. Obviously, this was one of the wrong ones.
 
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pa.jpg
 
  • #19
Eh, Holocene? Yeah its a little fuzzy cause it was a longer exposure, but its not THAT bad...
 
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badkitty.jpg


Yeah. She moved closer to me, her ears got cut off, and she squinted at the flash. I save a number of the bad ones, because they make me laugh and cost me nothing.
 
  • #21
I love that one!
 
  • #22
Borek said:
I'll have to browse scanned negatives. All digital images that I consider bad are deleted immediately.
I usually do the same, Borek. Sometimes I get lazy or distracted, so I have some bad ones hanging around.
 
  • #23
Moonbear said:
This should definitely qualify! It gave me vertigo just opening it to resize it.
badphoto.jpg


It was an attempt to get a photo of a butterfly when I stopped in the scenic lookout area for the New River Bridge. There were lots of butterflies and bees, so I decided to play with camera settings to see if I could photograph them. Obviously, this was one of the wrong ones.
Are you sure Monet didn't do this one?
 
  • #24
Moonbear said:
badphoto.jpg


It was an attempt to get a photo of a butterfly when I stopped in the scenic lookout area for the New River Bridge. There were lots of butterflies and bees, so I decided to play with camera settings to see if I could photograph them. Obviously, this was one of the wrong ones.

Not that bad, butterfly is obvious :smile:
 
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Borek said:
Not that bad, butterfly is obvious :smile:
Yep - it's a Monarch on a milkweed. I still haven't seen a single Monarch this year. Normally, they are quite common.
 
  • #26
Borek said:
Not that bad, butterfly is obvious :smile:

turbo-1 said:
Yep - it's a Monarch on a milkweed. I still haven't seen a single Monarch this year. Normally, they are quite common.

Yeah sure. The butterfly was only obvious to me because Moonbear said it was a butterfly. In the absence of her commentary, I'd have no clue what her photograph captured. :-p
 
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turbo-1 said:
Yep - it's a Monarch on a milkweed. I still haven't seen a single Monarch this year. Normally, they are quite common.

Yep, there were tons of Monarch's there, and several other kinds of butterflies too. And I think that's where all your bees have gone too! They were all over the place.

Georgina, I like that photo of Bean. :biggrin: She looks extra grumpy.
 
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Doesn't she just, Moonbear?
 
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Isn't it funny that several of these 'bad' shots involve cats? Dang felines - notoriously uncooperative!
 
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GeorginaS said:
Yeah sure. The butterfly was only obvious to me because Moonbear said it was a butterfly. In the absence of her commentary, I'd have no clue what her photograph captured. :-p

Perhaps you don't take enough butterfly pictures, I am deleting hundreds of similar things :-p
 
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lisab said:
Isn't it funny that several of these 'bad' shots involve cats? Dang felines - notoriously uncooperative!

So far the only shot I found and I could use in the contest is a picture of... cat :smile:
 
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Borek said:
So far the only shot I found and I could use in the contest is a picture of... cat :smile:

:smile: Well then, let's see it!
 
  • #33
lisab said:
Isn't it funny that several of these 'bad' shots involve cats? Dang felines - notoriously uncooperative!

I know! They're notorious for not playing along. Lie on the floor to be at an even level with them and what do they do? They come over to you to see what you're doing. The nerve. And! You'd at least think they'd have the courtesy to learn English.

Also, unlike dogs who, when told to "stay" tend to do just that. Cats? pfft.

Borek said:
Perhaps you don't take enough butterfly pictures, I am deleting hundreds of similar things :-p

You're right. I can't spot a blurry butterfly in a photograph because I don't take enough pictures of them. You caught me. :biggrin:
 
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I hit and displaced the tripod while moving around the red flashlight :)
bad enough?
 
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Alex:) said:
I hit and displaced the tripod while moving around the red flashlight :)
bad enough?

Oooooooooo... :cool: .
 
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Ok, I have a bad angle picture of the fruit bat along the lines of larkspur's picture, and some really out of focus ones, but I have an eerie alien rabbit giving off green rays and a spectoral squirrel in mid air in one photo along with weird lights. I have no idea how it happened since the next shot just shows a perfectly normal landscape.

Which do you guys want?

I don't think the alien bunny is winning material but it's weird.
 
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Alex:) said:
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5521/dsc01518yw3.jpg

I hit and displaced the tripod while moving around the red flashlight :)
bad enough?

bad?----that is ONE INTERESTING photo, there, bud------that could win some photo contest
 
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rewebster said:
bad?----that is ONE INTERESTING photo, there, bud------that could win some photo contest

Disqualified then :smile:
 
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Evo said:
Ok, I have a bad angle picture of the fruit bat along the lines of larkspur's picture, and some really out of focus ones, but I have an eerie alien rabbit giving off green rays and a spectoral squirrel in mid air in one photo along with weird lights. I have no idea how it happened since the next shot just shows a perfectly normal landscape.

Which do you guys want?

I don't think the alien bunny is winning material but it's weird.

Bad angles are not uncommon but weird aliens are definitely original. So that's what I would vote for.
 
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  • #41
Do I understand correctly that Zenparticle shot is so bad it even doesn't exist?

I have several similar shots on my negatives - just an empty space.
 
  • #42
Borek said:
Do I understand correctly that Zenparticle shot is so bad it even doesn't exist?

I have several similar shots on my negatives - just an empty space.

Maybe it's a picture of an "X". If so, it's a pretty good shot, and probably doesn't qualify for this contest.
 
  • #43
Honestly you guys can't see it? I can...
 
  • #44
Zenparticle said:
Honestly you guys can't see it? I can...

Maybe some can, but I just get an "X". What image server do you use?
 
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Ok this is strange no I don't see anything either, but I saw it when i logged on- I was using picasa let me try and fix that sorry!
 
  • #46
I'm not even getting an "X" - just a blank post with no characters, no image, nada.
 
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http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/9756/picture082pk0.jpg

Hope you can see this one!
 
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  • #48
No idea what is bad about this picture - these are not its glasses?
 
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http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/7330/e314152e1445dd4502db9a4kd5.jpg

I was in the car and the car moved when I was trying to take a picture.
 
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  • #50
So far the "bad" photos containing lights are incredible images. :biggrin:

Borek said:
No idea what is bad about this picture - these are not its glasses?

:smile:
 
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