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Photo of the Day - October 2022

Matsamoto said:
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I actually don’t know if this shot is any good. It was an experiment. November 2007.
This is from my town under the library. We have a river that runs through the whole town.
Nikon D40X, Nikkor 18-55 mm
55mm, f/10, iso 400, 1/400s
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Some of the best shots I have are the ones I think are going to be the worst. Smears, smudges, glowing eyes, etc... Like trying to take a picture of a puppy. Often you just can't do it. You only, if you are lucky, get some random part of their body that isn't in motion. But it goes to the elastic frenetic hyper-mobile root of puppies. If you want to get them still, either get them when sleeping, or focused on something.

I took from an article I read in Wired, I believe, that was from a photographer that said he never deletes shots he takes, and he shared some of the 'bad ones', and they were incredible. He thought of it being like int he old days you shot on film, and had that shot for 'eternity', and even paid to develop it. Some are just precious, perfect, odd, capture so much. *shrug* The only thing wrong is in deleting 'the bad ones'?
 
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PinkyMacGodess said:
Some of the best shots I have are the ones I think are going to be the worst. Smears, smudges, glowing eyes, etc... Like trying to take a picture of a puppy. Often you just can't do it. You only, if you are lucky, get some random part of their body that isn't in motion. But it goes to the elastic frenetic hyper-mobile root of puppies. If you want to get them still, either get them when sleeping, or focused on something.

I took from an article I read in Wired, I believe, that was from a photographer that said he never deletes shots he takes, and he shared some of the 'bad ones', and they were incredible. He thought of it being like int he old days you shot on film, and had that shot for 'eternity', and even paid to develop it. Some are just precious, perfect, odd, capture so much. *shrug* The only thing wrong is in deleting 'the bad ones'?
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That's true. The worst critic is most often the person that have taken the photo.
I guess that the non perfect image/photo is what gives the photo a soul, in lack of a better word. Or perhaps give the photo a own personality. I don't know.
So don't delete the "bad ones"😊
Thanks for the interesting reading from the article.
 
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PinkyMacGodess said:
Some of the best shots I have are the ones I think are going to be the worst. Smears, smudges, glowing eyes, etc... Like trying to take a picture of a puppy. Often you just can't do it. You only, if you are lucky, get some random part of their body that isn't in motion. But it goes to the elastic frenetic hyper-mobile root of puppies. If you want to get them still, either get them when sleeping, or focused on something.

I took from an article I read in Wired, I believe, that was from a photographer that said he never deletes shots he takes, and he shared some of the 'bad ones', and they were incredible. He thought of it being like int he old days you shot on film, and had that shot for 'eternity', and even paid to develop it. Some are just precious, perfect, odd, capture so much. *shrug* The only thing wrong is in deleting 'the bad ones'?
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I read an article years ago where the author was lamenting the fact that people with digital cameras are quick to delete extra photos whereas with a roll of film you print the ones you want, then save the entire roll. Years later you can go back find photos of people or places that are gone, that are an important record that would be gone if digital.
 
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i actually have no desire for a z9. it’s a great camera for the right kind of photographer but i do so much slow, deliberate, and/or manual focus work it makes no sense for me.
 
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Matsamoto said:
That's true. The worst critic is most often the person that have taken the photo.
I guess that the non perfect image/photo is what gives the photo a soul, in lack of a better word. Or perhaps give the photo a own personality. I don't know.
So don't delete the "bad ones"😊
Thanks for the interesting reading from the article.
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Memories.

My mom had an eccentric friend that attended my/our wedding, and took a roll of pictures that she gave to mom that day. She developed them, and for some reason they were taken over other pictures. She saw the pictures and tried to toss them out, but I flipped through them to see if any were worth saving. One picture was the newly minted wife and I, that was taken over a picture of what looked like a sunrise! It was actually beautiful, even though the backing image was slightly blurry. I thought it was pretty cool, and mom kept it. I was looking for it after she died and we were going through her house, and was kind of depressed I couldn't find it.

Yeah, *sometimes* the bad ones are the best. Yeah, the rest were tossed, but that one was pretty damn good...
 
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Allyance said:
I read an article years ago where the author was lamenting the fact that people with digital cameras are quick to delete extra photos whereas with a roll of film you print the ones you want, then save the entire roll. Years later you can go back find photos of people or places that are gone, that are an important record that would be gone if digital.
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That might have been the same article I was referencing. I liked the idea, having hundreds of pictures I and my sibs had taken on vacations, or just at random. I thought of the article, Why not! Storage is rather cheap-ish. I found cameras I owned and hooked them up to my mac and sucked all of the images from them, and some were just spectacular. One was of the ship Fantom, which I sailed on several times, and disappeared in hurricane Mitch. So many great and emotional images. It was impossible to not see that picture and not be overwhelmed with the emotions of those sailings and that the ship 'died' as I was flying through the edges of Mitch, hoping everyone was safe from it. Yeah, no, not Fantom...
 
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dimme said:
I photograph this spot about once a month, I am always amazed how different it looks each time.

20220812-_DSC3528.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
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That is great! Same spot every month. You can make a really cool liftable, or hang a series on a wall. Or staircase.


PinkyMacGodess said:
Memories.

My mom had an eccentric friend that attended my/our wedding, and took a roll of pictures that she gave to mom that day. She developed them, and for some reason they were taken over other pictures. She saw the pictures and tried to toss them out, but I flipped through them to see if any were worth saving. One picture was the newly minted wife and I, that was taken over a picture of what looked like a sunrise! It was actually beautiful, even though the backing image was slightly blurry. I thought it was pretty cool, and mom kept it. I was looking for it after she died and we were going through her house, and was kind of depressed I couldn't find it.

Yeah, *sometimes* the bad ones are the best. Yeah, the rest were tossed, but that one was pretty damn good...
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Possibly a stuck film...happened to me with negative #36 on a few rolls. One (double) shot was great. Alas, can't find the darn thing...
 
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