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.
  • #51
Great one!

But no "badiness" if you ask me :wink: This one will better fit "city lights" or "light in motion".
 
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  • #52
Borek said:
Great one!

But no "badiness" if you ask me :wink: This one will better fit "city lights" or "light in motion".

Actually it's bad because I didn't get the picture I wanted and it wasn't supposed to be streaky. :smile:
 
  • #53
Those are all beautiful pictures!

Ok, mine is really BAD, in about as bad as a picture can get. I was told that it's like one of those old "Magic Eye" pictures where you don't see anything until after you stare at it a bit.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/417/camerapictures295ae1.jpg

The picture has a rabbit and two squirrels. See if you can find them. Here is the link to the picture I snapped 3 seconds after this one if you want to see what the picture was of.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1823921&postcount=237
 
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  • #54
What a beautiful bad picture Christina.

And erm :rolleyes: Evo, I though this was a photo contest, isn't it. How did you get a hold of that excellent top painting of Barnett Newman from his grey period (1961-1964), called "Who is afraid of grey red and white". :-p
 
  • #55
Evo said:
Those are all beautiful pictures!

Ok, mine is really BAD, in about as bad as a picture can get. I was told that it's like one of those old "Magic Eye" pictures where you don't see anything until after you stare at it a bit.


The picture has a rabbit and two squirrels. See if you can find them. Here is the link to the picture I snapped 3 seconds after this one if you want to see what the picture was of.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1823921&postcount=237

It's cool...at first it's just blur, but as you stare for a while the bunny and squirrel come through like ghosts...<squint!>...I can only make out one squirrel...
 
  • #56
The other squirrel is jumping into the frame from the left. Excellent action shot Evo. Disqualified!
 
  • #57
I have these pictures of a cave from China in which the water dropping in the cave kept being focused by my camera instead of the scenery that I was trying to capture. Its a shame that I deleted them. The memory card on our camera is so small.
 
  • #58
The far left there is one squirrel leaping in Lisa.
 
  • #59
Ooohh...I see it now!
 
  • #60
Evo, why are the animals glowing with bright devil-eyes? Was this place near Love Canal or Three Mile Island?
 
  • #61
turbo-1 said:
Evo, why are the animals glowing with bright devil-eyes? Was this place near Love Canal or Three Mile Island?
I don't get why the eyes are glowing. As you can see in the other picture I linked to, it was broad daylight.

It's obvious that the bunny is putting out evil greenish rays aimed at the squirrel, and the red object is some demonic force, you can just barely see the life force of the squirrel next to the rabbit. The squirrel jumping in from the left was apparently vaporized before he landed as he is not in the next shot.

I wonder if I should post this on some paranormal websites and ask people to interpret the photo, explaining that the hair on the back of my neck was standing up and I could just feel this dark, oppresive presence as I was snapping the picture? :-p
 
  • #62
lisab said:
It's cool...at first it's just blur, but as you stare for a while the bunny and squirrel come through like ghosts...<squint!>...I can only make out one squirrel...

OMG! You're right! If you squint, you can see the squirrel and bunny in the middle. Is there another squirrel mid-leap to the far left? That's a pretty amazing bad photo (as opposed to an amazingLY bad photo). :biggrin:
 
  • #63
Evo said:
I wonder if I should post this on some paranormal websites and ask people to interpret the photo, explaining that the hair on the back of my neck was standing up and I could just feel this dark, oppresive presence as I was snapping the picture? :-p

:smile: You could tell them you were able to capture their auras, one a bright green one, and another all red and diffuse. Ask them what it means. :smile:
 
  • #64
rewebster said:
bad?----that is ONE INTERESTING photo, there, bud------that could win some photo contest

hehe, thanks bud :)
that's really funny, though - well, ZapperZ, please let me know if I should submit another picture
 
  • #65
Moonbear said:
:smile: You could tell them you were able to capture their auras, one a bright green one, and another all red and diffuse. Ask them what it means. :smile:
OMG! They were attuning their chakras, as wild animals often do, and you caught them at it.
 
  • #66
turbo-1 said:
OMG! They were attuning their chakras, as wild animals often do, and you caught them at it.
Well, I do live on ancient Indian lands...
 
  • #67
GeorginaS said:
So far the "bad" photos containing lights are incredible images. :biggrin:



:smile:

yeah--esp. ~christina~ 's


Evo---that's probably the worst or best 'bad' photo so far
 
  • #68
Alex:) said:
hehe, thanks bud :)
that's really funny, though - well, ZapperZ, please let me know if I should submit another picture

I must admit that I don't see any thing "bad" with regards to the quality of the picture. So I'm not sure how well it fits in with the theme. Ultimately, it is up to the members who will vote to decide. So you may, if you want, keep it, or remove it and resubmit.

Zz.
 
  • #69
IMG_9141.jpg


Zz.
 
  • #70
Everyone has such "pretty" bad pictures. You know I can't resist "bling".

Nice one Zz!
 
  • #71
Evo said:
Everyone has such "pretty" bad pictures. You know I can't resist "bling".

Nice one Zz!

You just like it because it's a candy float! :)

Zz.
 
  • #72
Photo34.jpg


This one is not as good (as bad) as many others, however, I have no idea how I managed to make it moved or not perfectly sharp. It was a sunny day (short time), it was short focus (huge dof), it is impossible to make such picture unsharp - yet I did it :frown:
 
  • #73
That cloud is superman.
 
  • #74
Kurdt said:
That cloud is superman.
It is!
 
  • #75
Evo said:
It is!

It is?! I see no cape and red tight shorts!

Zz.
 
  • #76
Maybe Underdog?
 
  • #77
Borek's photo: I thought it was a swimmer doing the backstroke


Z--that photo almost gives me a headache---it has some things like a time exposure (the light streaks), some like a strobe (the double imaging), and then the people and the background are in focus----then those circular bands around the engine are the really the funny things that I look back to, and the headache starts over
 
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  • #78
ZapperZ said:
I must admit that I don't see any thing "bad" with regards to the quality of the picture. So I'm not sure how well it fits in with the theme. Ultimately, it is up to the members who will vote to decide. So you may, if you want, keep it, or remove it and resubmit.

Zz.

Got it! You guys are looking for bad quality - you'll get it!
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3827/policeqs6.jpg
one of the pictures in my cell phone (nearly every one from there will do for this contest though) - over 5 police vehicles all together is rather rare in this small city :) (that's all our police department has, I guess!)

P.S. ZapperZ, could you please erase the previous picture from here https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1823174&postcount=35 ? I don't seem to have access for editing the post anymore...
 
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  • #79
Alex:) said:
Got it! You guys are looking for bad quality - you'll get it!

one of the pictures in my cell phone (nearly every one from there will do for this contest though) - over 5 police vehicles all together is rather rare in this small city :) (that's all our police department has, I guess!)

Aahhh...now we're talking. That's a nice 'bad' shot - interesting!
 
  • #80
Kurdt said:
That cloud is superman.

Evo said:
It is!

ZapperZ said:
It is?! I see no cape and red tight shorts!

turbo-1 said:
Maybe Underdog?

rewebster said:
I thought it was a swimmer doing the backstroke

This picture was taken on the same day my cloud from the Cloud Nine competition was shot, they are about an hour apart. But these are completely different coluds.
 
  • #81
You have roughly 2 days left to submit a photo for this contest - with or without tight red trunks!

:)

Zz.
 
  • #82
Great Crested Grebe

foutefuut.jpg


Camera FZ8, preset on 100 iso to reduce noise hence a slow shutter speed. At exactly this moment it decided to dive in.
 
  • #83
Kurdt said:
The far left there is one squirrel leaping in Lisa.

Isn't anyone else disturbed by this? Isn't someone going to help Lisa?
 
  • #84
tribdog said:
Isn't anyone else disturbed by this? Isn't someone going to help Lisa?
Mental image of creature emerging from crew-member in Alien. :eek:
 

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