Photo Contest - Bad Photo (7/29-8/4)

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses a photo contest themed around showcasing poorly taken photographs. Participants are encouraged to submit images that exemplify common photographic blunders such as being out-of-focus, overexposed, or poorly lit. The discussion includes contest rules and participants' reflections on their own photographic mishaps.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related
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Main Points Raised

  • One participant humorously notes they usually delete bad photos and considers taking one intentionally for the contest.
  • Another participant emphasizes the requirement for photos to be taken accidentally or unintentionally.
  • Some participants reminisce about potentially having old bad photos available for submission.
  • A participant describes a photo of a trash box, mentioning a distracting background as a flaw.
  • One participant expresses confusion about the quality of a photo taken in December 2014, speculating it might relate to a supernova in the image.
  • Technical issues with telephoto lenses and autofocus are mentioned as common causes of bad photos.
  • A participant humorously notes that bad pictures of ghosts are common, implying that good pictures of ghosts are elusive.
  • Another participant shares a personal anecdote about taking a photo while holding their cat, suggesting an unintentional outcome.
  • A reminder is given about the final day for photo submissions.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the theme of the contest and the nature of the submissions, but there is a mix of humor and personal anecdotes regarding their experiences with bad photography. No consensus on specific photos or techniques is reached.

Contextual Notes

Participants express varying degrees of uncertainty about their past photos and the technical aspects of photography that lead to poor outcomes. Some comments reflect personal experiences rather than established photographic principles.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in photography, especially those who enjoy sharing humorous or flawed images, may find this discussion engaging.

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Bad Photo

This is another one of our popular theme. You get to show off your spectacular blunders when snapping a photo. The more out-of-focus, overexposed, insufficient-lighting, something-blocking-your-shot, and blurry it is, the better it fits into this theme.

Please note that these must be done accidentally/unintentionally and not on purpose.

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 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 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. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

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. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

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. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.

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I usually delete all those hahaha
will have to purposely take one :wink:
 
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ZapperZ said:
accidentally/unintentionally
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maybe I still have one or two hanging around
 
It's the loveliest trash box I ever photographed - but alas such a distracting background...

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I have no idea how or why this one turned out this way. Taken in December, 2014.

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ZapperZ said:
I have no idea how or why this one turned out this way. Taken in December, 2014.
Maybe it had something to do with the supernova at the top of the picture?
 
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telephoto + autofocus = sure problems

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Borek said:
telephoto + autofocus = sure problems
I told you not to measure the momentum!
 
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A bad picture of ghosts, but then you never see a good picture of ghosts.
 
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My cat on my lap, resting his head in my hand, while my other hand took this photo...
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Final day to submit your bad photos.

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