Images of mistakes - good or bad..

[Emil Schildt]

when I browse the images in here, I always find the perfect ones...

Am I the only one that frequently makes mistakes?

And am I the only one that gets images out of these mistakes that actually turns out better than without the mistake?

Let's see your mistakes.

The ones that actually work (explain the mistake)
the ones that doesn't (maybe no explanation is needed......:D )

I'll start with two images that I think works.

First a double exposure on a 8x10 slide. (there is about 1,5 hours between the two exposures...)

An expensive mistake, but I so like the result..

http://static.phosee.dk/pictures/00000172/047-naar-fejl-virker-2_800x600.jpg

Then another double exposure (9x12).
I wanted to make two images of Kala, standing dressed and then naked in the same pose. But forgot which side of the cassette I exposed...

Here's the result

http://static.phosee.dk/pictures/00000172/046-naar-fejl-virker-_800x600.jpg

(PS: I also have plenty of mistakes that doesn't work at all.. some quite funny :rolleyes: )

[vinny]

cool mistakes!
Here's a 2x exposure a few hours apart. Doesn't scan well and I haven't tried to print it yet. 135mm lens on both, I think.

[William McEwen]

Tara, 1988.

Shot with a 4x5 Sinar Alpina. I should have noticed that Tara's fingers were covering each end of the headline. Instead of "Bush routs Dukakis," it is "ush routs Dukaki."

I filed the picture away because of this mistake. However, I plan to resurect it. I'll admit it was an amusing accident. Or I'll say it was completely intentional.

[Emil Schildt]

cool mistakes!
Here's a 2x exposure a few hours apart. Doesn't scan well and I haven't tried to print it yet. 135mm lens on both, I think.

that's a beautiful mistake!

I once made a big exhibition in the museum of photography here in Denmark, and I called it "UPS - De Luxe"...

About 250 images on display - all mistakes. And a great success!

More - let's see more!

[Emil Schildt]

All right - here's one REAL stupid (but funny) mistake:

I knew I wanted to bleach/scratch the background, so I needed some light to remove later...

I wanted to use flash on the background, and then paint with light on the models...

I bent down to manually tricker the flash, forgetting how big my as# actually is.......:o

No way to save this - but good to show students on how NOT to do it....:p

http://static.phosee.dk/pictures/00000172/966-naar-fejl-ikke-virker_800x600.jpg

[W K Longcor]

cool mistakes!
Here's a 2x exposure a few hours apart. Doesn't scan well and I haven't tried to print it yet. 135mm lens on both, I think.

What a beautiful image. This is NOT a mistake , but a very happy accident!

[Sean Galbraith]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4266039938_473534befd.jpg

[Rick Tardiff]

As a newbie I could hang out in this thread forever! This is a mistake that doesn't make anything any better, actually more than one mistake. I won't include the other hundred or so in the past few months as I get to grips with large format.

[William McEwen]

bump

C'mon, how about a few more?

[Steve Wadlington]

Stuck locking cable release.

[Emil Schildt]

Stuck locking cable release.

I think we have all been there...:D

[uphereinmytree]

It is interesting that these mistakes are actually the current assignment for an experimental camera class I am taking now. I will add some assignment images soon

[Kirk Keyes]

cool mistakes!
Here's a 2x exposure a few hours apart. Doesn't scan well and I haven't tried to print it yet. 135mm lens on both, I think.

There's a real Jerry Uelsmann feel to that one. I like it!

[thart2009]

37069Inadvertent double exposure. Crown Graphic. Near Tucson.

[Wayne R. Scott]

Here is one of my many mistakes. Uncoated Voltas 13" lens pointed into the sun with out a lens hood. Guess what happens?

Wayne

[jim kitchen]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)

jim k

[Stephanie Brim]

Here is one of my many mistakes. Uncoated Voltas 13" lens pointed into the sun with out a lens hood. Guess what happens?

Wayne

Haha, yeah...yeah. Been there. With smaller format, but same issue. The Apotar that I have, 105mm, was still on the folder it came on and I was shooting something...probably the inside of the garage trying to figure out of the darn camera worked or not. It worked, but the lens flared more than anything I've ever used.

Works a treat on 4x5, though. A little falloff at the corners when not at, say, 1:2, but not enough to really worry about. Compur shutter is on. Good lens for the Speed Graphic.

[Maris Rusis]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)

jim k

Excellent density but terrible resolution; only 1 pixel!

[fenderbja]

http://www.brandonallenphotography.com/posts/DeadTreeUtahLake.jpg
Dead Tree Near Utah Lake. Type 55 Polaroid - Obviously the chemicals did not disperse evenly and the focal plane is just behind the tree. Oops. Ironically this image has sold in a gallery and off my webset a couple times.

[Emil Schildt]

http://www.brandonallenphotography.com/posts/DeadTreeUtahLake.jpg
Dead Tree Near Utah Lake. Type 55 Polaroid - Obviously the chemicals did not disperse evenly and the focal plane is just behind the tree. Oops. Ironically this image has sold in a gallery and off my webset a couple times.

I've had a lot of those mistakes. and surprisingly they often look great!

this is a nice one..

here is one:

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/4/8/8/7/sofia--.jpg

[Robert Hughes]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)

jim k
Finally, a Jim Kitchen photo that I can aspire to - and actually stand a chance of matching!! :)

[Daniel_Buck]

This one (a favorite subject of mine, shot it many times!) I accidentallky read my light meter as 1 second instead of 1 minute, so I under exposed it horribly. In scanning the negative, I was able to bring back a decent amount of detail, and it got real grainy and ghosty, and I actually ended up liking the result, haha!

http://404photography.net/wip/4x5/4x5_09.jpg


and here's the same scene again, but with the proper exposure (on a different trip, i think)

http://404photography.net/wip/4x5/4x5_dodge_truck_01.jpg

[Armin Seeholzer]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last...

jim k


This is postcard art you can sell it as the total dark night in dingsbums;--)))

[Stephanie Brim]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/3164750011_25e4fafb92_o.jpg

I've posted this before, but I've been wanting to revisit it so I'll post it here to highlight my mistake: red apples and dark orange tangerines on a black background just doesn't work. Also, getting pissed when you develop it, realizing it isn't going to work, and sticking it on the scanner slightly wet to put it up for the world to see as a testament to your stupidity is another mistake.

Oh, and notice the lovely light leak? I missed that holder when fixing the ones with light leaks. :D

Just saying.

[Frank Petronio]

Early on I did a portrait of a guy and then accidently double exposed a tree... guess where the erect branch fell?

Gotta find it and scan it ;-)

[ImSoNegative]

"the stuck cable release" is awsome lmao.

[Richard M. Coda]

Not an in-camera mistake, but a darkroom mistake. Had the negative upside down when I contact printed it.

Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
8x10 TriX
Arca Swiss
Fuji 450C

[theBDT]

http://brianthedellphotography.com/2_27_10/Untitled-5.jpg

[al olson]

The camera is a Technika IV with a Schneider 150mm f/5.6 vintage lens. Exposure was unrecorded.

This one was in part intentional. I was trying out my first pack of Fuji FP-100C45. I set this up to see how it worked with an extreme brightness range. This is a north facing window. I knew there would be some flare, but I didn't realize how much.

I scanned the print below. Then I used Photoshop Elements to boost the contrast. The colors changed to a bluish tinge, but gave me more of a silhouette. I cropped it to fit the window frame. That has become my avatar.

[jim kitchen]

Finally, a Jim Kitchen photo that I can aspire to - and actually stand a chance of matching!! :)

Dear Robert and Armin,

Your comments welcome and funny... :)

As a side note, that image sells dirt cheap.

jim k

[jvuokko]

Mistake... I loaded some film backs using film change bag in the heat of Japan's mid summer. My hands sweat a really much.

The result... There was fingerprints all over the negatives.....
http://jukkavuokko.com/linkatut/lf/4x5%202008-06-24%20fingerprints.jpg



Another embrassing mistake... I took a photograph of small waterfall and expected a lot of it... But as I haven't time to develop sheet immediately, I somehow managed to expose same sheet almost a month after... with a picture of rapids..

http://jukkavuokko.com/linkatut/lf/45_2009-04-26-4%20and%202009-05-17-1%20multi-exposure.jpg

[Cornelius]

These are all great! Keep them coming please. =D

[Robert Hughes]

I like those fingerprints - adds the "personal" touch! :)

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/scan002.jpg
Another image from about 15 years back, this is just a scan of a printing info sheet I make for all my negs so the quality is not great.
I spent 3 days in this area and the view from this vantage point was breathtaking. I set my camera up here 5 or 6 times but the light, wind, etc just wouldn't cooperate, finaly on the morning of the third day it was perfect, no breeze, light fog over the water and a few foggy patches in the mountains. Thought I had something pretty special until I went to print it and discovered that the image just didn't seem to portray what I recall seeing. I revisited the image on a few occasions and finally figured the problem out. Because the image is more about lines shapes and tones as it is about a mountain scene the composition is just plain wrong unless you view the image upside down.
T-Max 100 4x5, Home made Cherrywood camera, Sironar-N MC 150mm

[JR Steel]

http://brianthedellphotography.com/2_27_10/Untitled-5.jpg

Oh, that's spooky. The alter ego.

[Miguel Coquis]

well, forgot to turn filmholder....

http://macoquis.caraldi.com/scaled/Autumn%20Portraits/Mig.jpg

[Robert Hughes]

well, forgot to turn filmholder....
Reminds me of a scene from a 70's porno flick - right down to the misregistration! :p

[Miguel Coquis]

Reminds me of a scene from a 70's porno flick - right down to the misregistration! :p

Please fill free to/and remind all you can....

[Emil Schildt]

double exposure (not on purpose) - cropped to a square..

http://static.phosee.dk/pictures/00000172/960-naar-fejl-virker-3_800x600.jpg

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/BarilCreek2.jpg
My first attempt at tray processing 4 sheets of 8x10 at the same time.....at least the results were consistant.....all 4 negatives ruined :(

[theBDT]

gandolfi—has a kind of "Man Ray" feel to it... :)

[Clive Gray]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/3767219822_2b570c084a.jpg


Yet another accidental double exposure

[Steve M Hostetter]

4x5 Graflex shutter curtins

[Robert Hughes]

4x5 Graflex shutter curtins
Shot under fluorescent or other AC arc light?

[Bradford Armstrong]

Stuck locking cable release.

This is my favorite so far. To funny. If film is involved there is a million ways to screw it up.

[tmbg]

I was experimenting with Bellows Factor the other day, and took some pictures of a holga at close to 1:1. I thought I was shooting tmax400, but the film holders I grabbed actually had Velvia 100F in them. I processed them in D76+kodafix, and they were hung up and drying before I realized the notch code was velvia. No wonder I wasn't getting the results I was expecting!

Just for giggles, I tried running them through E6 color developer and E6 blix, and here's one of the results:

[Steve M Hostetter]

Shot under fluorescent or other AC arc light?

Hello Robert,

I was using the modeling lights ( 250ws quartz) on high and used 4-multi exposure @f11 ,, I forgot to tighten the tension on the first exposure ,, I believe. I remember the shutter moved slow and when I noticed i had to help the crank the rest of the way to close it.
The reason I use multi exposures is because I hadn't got the tension setting located but since have :D

[Robert Hughes]

I thought I was shooting tmax400, but the film holders I grabbed actually had Velvia 100F in them. I processed them in D76+kodafix...I tried running them through E6 color developer and E6 blix, and here's one of the results:
And here's the reversal image:

[gsinico]

one nice mistake...:o

[Emil Schildt]

one more found..
"angelic light" ?

[Joe O'Hara]

Franklin Parker Preserve, NJ. Ektar 100, 4x5.

Oops.... realized I failed to flip the film holder before the second shot. Actually, I kind of like the result ("the clouds have landed"), but a mistake is a mistake. Could be a while before we get a sky that good around here again, though....

[tbeaman]

Joe, it's really kind of effective and balanced in a bizarre, abstract way.

I've got a double exposure of my own to post but I'm in the wrong city at the moment. I had purchased some film holders on the youknowwhatsit a awhile ago, one of which happened to still be loaded with Portra 160NC (ruined one sheet finding this out). I thought I'd shoot the remaining one on a lark (first time shooting color neg and first negative to be processed too), but of course, upon receiving it from the lab, found out that it had already been exposed by somebody else.

The dark slide had been positioned with the white side showing, so I assume the original owner simply forgot or 'lost' the negs, which in the end, makes it more his/her mistake than mine!

I'm sure I'll have plenty of mistakes solely of my own doing to show once I start processing the rest of my negs!

[mdm]

I bought some film holders from Jordan Starr in Canada, they were loaded with film. I holder must have been exposed and this is the result. A bucolic Canada superimposed with waves from far, far south. I love it.

David

[Emil Schildt]

just made some new mistakes...

(will I ever learn)

I made a couple of images, painting with light while the models moved - then I solarized the negatives... too much!

But I made a kind of sandwich of the two, and now I like it better...

http://www.phosee.dk/pictures/00000218/829-dans_800x600.jpg

[Brian Bullen]

Emil,
I hope you keep making mistakes, Wonderful!

[MIke Sherck]

just made some new mistakes...

(will I ever learn)

I made a couple of images, painting with light while the models moved - then I solarized the negatives... too much!

But I made a kind of sandwich of the two, and now I like it better...

http://www.phosee.dk/pictures/00000218/829-dans_800x600.jpg

Wow! What a wonderful mistake!

Mike

[sully75]

Not as exciting as some of these. One of my 5x7 sheets got loose in the Bessler drum (don't have those seperators) and overlapped another sheet. Bummer but I was still able to crop it.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-42D8WL81rw/TEhCdP7MFpI/AAAAAAAAAlo/kbvwzeCNNW4/s912/6%2016%2010464-2.jpg

[h2oman]

Another double exposure. One was supposed to be textures on a rock wall, the other soe corn lilies silhouetted agains a dark log. Not content with just one error, I managed to get a bit of a light leak in there too!

[austin granger]

Here is an accidental double exposure of a car on the Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley. I particularly like how the tufts of grass appear to mix naturally with the completely barren salt pan flat. Heck, it almost looks like I meant to do it! Don't be fooled...:o

http://austingranger.com/web/lights/05-accidental_double_exposure_death_valley_january_2004.jpg

[jnantz]

cold/slow shutter in a graflex slr

[Kirk Gittings]

http://sitemanager.sitewelder.com/users/KirkGittings2359/images/KirkGittings23591279273.jpg

This was one of my extremely rare happy mistakes. I farted around-took too long to set up and the foreground clouded over. My intention was the opposite with a brightly lit foreground and the background shaded which would make the building really pop. That is my normal predictable MO. This is not a site where you want to hang around long as people get run out of here at gunpoint-myself included a couple of years previous. This is the Upper Morada in Abiquiu, NM up the hill from O'Keefe's house. So I made a couple of negatives and got the hell out of there. I considered the effort a blown opportunity and I was mad at myself for missing it.

After developing and contacting the negative, I realized the light lent a brooding feel to the image that I really liked. It has become one of my most popular images, widely published, exhibited and sold. This image taught me allot about taking chances.

[Gary Beasley]

An unintentional double exposure on 160 Portra, first shot some rapids in north Georgia, months later forgetting I had an exposure on the film I shot the moat in front of Fort Pulaski at Tybee Island near Savannah.

[Sdrubansky]

Very nice thread.

M

[Ed Richards]

Unintentional double exposure, Holocaust Memorial, Miami:

http://www.epr-art.com/galleries/b4-holocaust/photos/1570.jpg

[Kirk Gittings]

Ed, I like that!

[John NYC]

Here I was trying desperately to get the top of the Empire State Building in my shot. I used so much front rise that I experienced the "limited by bellows" aspect of the Wehman camera... the bottom part of the picture was blocked by about an inch of bellows. I cropped that off; originally there was supposed to be so much more foreground, but now it really made the ESB look even more enormous. So what is left is just the vignetting on the top. Be sure to check out this link above the inline picture for a large (16x20 printable) scan. You can see fantastic details of the antenna structure as well as people on the observation deck, and details like a small picture frame in one of the offices. I didn't bother to clean up the dust/marks on this scan like I usually do.

LARGE SIZE (5297 x 6000 pixels): http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/5108691397_f0e282bfb3_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/5108691397_e00193b0a6_b.jpg

[John NYC]

It has become one of my most popular images, widely published, exhibited and sold.

I can see why. Gorgeous!

And another odd positive about film... You may have never done this if it were a digital camera, I'd bet. Or if you did accidentally, it would have wound a victim of the delete key immediately when reviewing the shot on the tiny screen and looking at the hsitogram.

[cjbroadbent]

A mistake and an untidy dressing table 'contrived' for an up-market after-shave. Plenty of toys there.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TQZC5VsPWzI/AAAAAAAAGMc/j00_JeQdTvE/s800/dresser%2BSelf.jpg

[Kirk Gittings]

I can see why. Gorgeous!

And another odd positive about film... You may have never done this if it were a digital camera, I'd bet. Or if you did accidentally, it would have wound a victim of the delete key immediately when reviewing the shot on the tiny screen and looking at the hsitogram.

Thanks for the kind words. As per digital? You could very well be right!

[chris_4622]

The camera sat in the car overnight with temps down near 40º. When the sun hit the bellows condensation formed on the rear element and...

[Emil Schildt]

on a limb here...

because the image shown isn't mine.
The photographer is my girlfriend, and she gave me permission to show this!

TITLE:
Spiderwoman OR "... remember to check the developer for dead spiders before a solarization of your film!"...


Stine made this selfportrait, and wanted to make a solarized negative.

When developing the negative, she didn't realize, that a spider apparently had decided to commit suicide in the developer....

Look and behold: the spider was "captured" on the negative when Stine re-lit the negative. Hence this the "spider corpse" was the only thing on the images that wasn't re-lit - so the siluette stayed black..

(that's what we think, anyway)

This is the first time I have seen anything like this happen - and I like it a lot!

Camera: Sinar Norma
Foma 100 iso.

Lith print.

SPIDERWOMAN

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/2/3/0/4/6/spiderwoman1.jpg

[walter23]

I like the spiderwoman print. Very cool accident.

[Kirk Gittings]

However it was done......it is a magical image.

SPIDERWOMAN

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/2/3/0/4/6/spiderwoman1.jpg[/QUOTE]

[bvaughn4]

Awesome, however it happened!

[jp]

http://sitemanager.sitewelder.com/users/KirkGittings2359/images/KirkGittings23591279273.jpg

This was one of my extremely rare happy mistakes. I farted around-took too long to set up and the foreground clouded over. My intention was the opposite with a brightly lit foreground and the background shaded which would make the building really pop. That is my normal predictable MO. This is not a site where you want to hang around long as people get run out of here at gunpoint-myself included a couple of years previous. This is the Upper Morada in Abiquiu, NM up the hill from O'Keefe's house. So I made a couple of negatives and got the hell out of there. I considered the effort a blown opportunity and I was mad at myself for missing it.

After developing and contacting the negative, I realized the light lent a brooding feel to the image that I really liked. It has become one of my most popular images, widely published, exhibited and sold. This image taught me allot about taking chances.

The brooding sky and the strong light and dark combine with the three crosses (on a hill outside of the village nonetheless) provide a strong Christian allegory.

It's a nice image, but perhaps that mood quietly adds to it's appeal as an allegorical image. I didn't see it at first, but after looking at it for a minute it was pretty plain it was far more than a normal pretty southwest historical landscape. The darkened bell certainly adds to that too.

Artistic/technically speaking, the dark tones and lighter tones are all perfect. The shapes and lines are good, especially the circle around the ruin and the dark triangle of the sky.

[ghostdancer]

Not as exciting as some of these. One of my 5x7 sheets got loose in the Bessler drum (don't have those seperators) and overlapped another sheet. Bummer but I was still able to crop it.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-42D8WL81rw/TEhCdP7MFpI/AAAAAAAAAlo/kbvwzeCNNW4/s912/6%2016%2010464-2.jpg

Not to mention what that sheep's doing to you!!

[Brian Ellis]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)

jim k

Aw that's nothing. I have about 75 just like that one from a trip to Maine with a defective Readyload holder that was grabbing the film and pulling it up along with the inner envelope so that the film was never exposed. Mine might be a slightly richer black. : - )

[Kirk Gittings]

The brooding sky and the strong light and dark combine with the three crosses (on a hill outside of the village nonetheless) provide a strong Christian allegory.

It's a nice image, but perhaps that mood quietly adds to it's appeal as an allegorical image. I didn't see it at first, but after looking at it for a minute it was pretty plain it was far more than a normal pretty southwest historical landscape. The darkened bell certainly adds to that too.

Artistic/technically speaking, the dark tones and lighter tones are all perfect. The shapes and lines are good, especially the circle around the ruin and the dark triangle of the sky.

Thanks for those insights, I am actually reworking this image as we speak-this time for a show in Santa Fe later this year-this time for a larger Piezography print and working from a superb Lenny Eiger drum scan. I worked on it for about 8 hours today. The above was the first digital print I ever did period and it was a huge learning experience. I worked on the file for months and was finally able to get this negative to dance the way I had always wanted it to. This image is a pain to print traditionally-I could never get the tones or the complex d&B right. I was thinking this time I wanted to open up the bell on these prints a hair so you could just see the detail in the bell. I still want the tones to be deep and ominous.

[cjbroadbent]

If you can't beat them (reflections, that is), join them.
Krylon, iced water, tent? No way.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TUf_4Qz7bwI/AAAAAAAAGgQ/ycTcLnDLcb4/s800/silver2.jpg

[Jim Cole]

Christopher,
What a set! This one has a very strange appeal to me that I cannot put into words. Very...

[madmax12]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)

jim k

Hey I thought I was only one that did that:D

[BennehBoy]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3650676117_683f1ef498.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennehboy/3650676117/)
. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennehboy/3650676117/) by BennehBoy (http://www.flickr.com/people/bennehboy/), on Flickr

Dark slide inserted but did not engage the holder flap...

[cjbroadbent]

4x5 Ektachrome. Somebody playing with a laser in my back yard.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TUrZpiGeBfI/AAAAAAAAGis/4Kdo95F8By4/s800/soon.jpg

[austin granger]

4x5 Ektachrome. Somebody playing with a laser in my back yard.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TUrZpiGeBfI/AAAAAAAAGis/4Kdo95F8By4/s800/soon.jpg

Wow! What an otherworldly photograph!

[Scott Walker]

4x5 Ektachrome. Somebody playing with a laser in my back yard.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TUrZpiGeBfI/AAAAAAAAGis/4Kdo95F8By4/s800/soon.jpg

Wow! I love your back yard :D

[cjbroadbent]

It's the view from my shelter.

[bobwysiwyg]

Please post shot of your shelter. :D

[Gary L. Quay]

When I first saw this, I initially thought that the mistake was where the sheep had their noses.

--Gary


Not as exciting as some of these. One of my 5x7 sheets got loose in the Bessler drum (don't have those seperators) and overlapped another sheet. Bummer but I was still able to crop it.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-42D8WL81rw/TEhCdP7MFpI/AAAAAAAAAlo/kbvwzeCNNW4/s912/6%2016%2010464-2.jpg

[Gary L. Quay]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4965446173_27b97a793f_z.jpg

A melding of the Cant Ranch (not Can't)-- the home of James Cant in Central Oregon (when it came to ranching, apparently James Cant could. You get the picture), and an overlook of Port Townsend, WA.

How many mistakes can one make on one photo? Let's expound. 1. I used the same film holder twice. I hadn't noticed it, but the dark slides are so worn that it's hard to tell (when hastily taking pictures before the good light goes away) which side denotes exposed negatives. My 5x7 film holders are ancient. I was just moving so fast that I failed to notice that I was placing an exposed film holder into the camera. 2. My 90mm Nikkor wide angle lens has a limited coverage on 5x7. Even more so if you don't properly tighten the front standard, and it slides down a few inches, hence the top vignetting for the Port Townsend part. 3. To add insult to injury, I used the wrong sized yellow filter, which I taped to the back of the lens as I usually do to avoid flare. I used a 62mm filter, which apparently heightened the vignetting (the Nikkor is Veeery wide on 5x7). I had done all of my focusing before adding the filter.

Camera: Deardorff 8x10 with 5x7 back.
Lens: 90mm Nikkor
Film: Ilford FP4+ developed in Kodak D76.

[cjbroadbent]

I do a lot of re-shoots because I leave instruments in the shot. Lucky I'm not a surgeon. 5x7 Ektachrome in a Technika.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/TVfXfgU5s9I/AAAAAAAAG10/MQHxluaiavc/s800/alzataLimoni.jpg

[Kevin Crisp]

From the title of the thread I figured you'd be getting lots of wedding pictures.

[Sirius Glass]

From the title of the thread I figured you'd be getting lots of wedding pictures.


:D :D :D :D

[picker77]

Here is one of my many mistakes. Uncoated Voltas 13" lens pointed into the sun with out a lens hood. Guess what happens?

Wayne

I like this one, Wayne. Looks like four lucky people from the group have been selected for beaming up to the mother ship. Very cool.

[Professional]

This is my mistake, it is my first sheet ever in my life.

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4532/img140ni.jpg

[Professional]

And this is with my first color sheet

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/8773/img138a.jpg

[Professional]

Ofcourse i will not post my first blank sheet, this is the worst mistake i started with, hope this start will be a big lesson to me.

[Scott Schroeder]

I could have a field day posting on this thread....mistakes in Wet plate??? ;)
http://www.schroederworks.com/Wetplate/DevvonFeb2011_002.jpg

[Emil Schildt]

I could have a field day posting on this thread....mistakes in Wet plate??? ;)
]

but this is a nice one - so go get your field day!:D

[paulr]

This is a decidedly small format mistake … the picture happened at the beginning of the roll while I was advancing the film.

It's a good example of how your intentions can keep you from seeing. I never paid any attention to it because it had been a mistake. Luckily, a teacher looking over my shoulder at the contact sheet noticed that it was the interesting image among a bunch of dull but deliberate ones.

He just said, "why don't you do some more like this one?" I told him it was a mistake and he said, "so what?"

http://paulraphaelson.com/portfolios/chicago/16foot.jpg

Lesson learned. I went out and did more like it.

[William McEwen]

Impeccable timing, Paul! Real Cartier-Bresson "decisive moment" stuff!

[Emil Schildt]

posted this in "paper negatives" also...

overexposed negative (paper) - hence the cloud like patterns..

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/4/8/8/7/papir-trine.jpg

[mortensen]

Here I was trying desperately to get the top of the Empire State Building in my shot. I used so much front rise that I experienced the "limited by bellows" aspect of the Wehman camera... the bottom part of the picture was blocked by about an inch of bellows. I cropped that off; originally there was supposed to be so much more foreground, but now it really made the ESB look even more enormous. So what is left is just the vignetting on the top. Be sure to check out this link above the inline picture for a large (16x20 printable) scan. You can see fantastic details of the antenna structure as well as people on the observation deck, and details like a small picture frame in one of the offices. I didn't bother to clean up the dust/marks on this scan like I usually do.

LARGE SIZE (5297 x 6000 pixels): http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/5108691397_f0e282bfb3_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/5108691397_e00193b0a6_b.jpg

Great shot, lovely light! out of pure curiosity: 8x10 (wehman?) og 4x5? Imacon or V700? Nice to see a full resolution shot for once - something I really miss in here
(I know it has its reasons in file size, but slightly downgraded 8bit jpegs are to be handled by most bandwidths - and can show all the detail)

[bobwysiwyg]

I told him it was a mistake..




That was your second mistake. :) Nice, interesting shot. I like it mistake or not.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Here I was trying desperately to get the top of the Empire State Building in my shot. I used so much front rise that I experienced the "limited by bellows" aspect of the Wehman camera... the bottom part of the picture was blocked by about an inch of bellows. I cropped that off; originally there was supposed to be so much more foreground, but now it really made the ESB look even more enormous. So what is left is just the vignetting on the top. Be sure to check out this link above the inline picture for a large (16x20 printable) scan. You can see fantastic details of the antenna structure as well as people on the observation deck, and details like a small picture frame in one of the offices. I didn't bother to clean up the dust/marks on this scan like I usually do.

LARGE SIZE (5297 x 6000 pixels): http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/5108691397_f0e282bfb3_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/5108691397_e00193b0a6_b.jpg

a Reinhart Wolf! Bravo

[Scott Schroeder]

how bout a leaning tower that isn't really leaning.....
http://www.schroederworks.com/Wetplate/austin360001.jpg

[Jim Galli]

Film mistakes are so much more rewarding...


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Miscl_Tessars/doubleS.jpg
ghost coffeepot

Done with a big wooden studio camera a century old, but I had taken the pneumatic shutter out for repair and forgot about the 5/16" hole in the 9X9 inch lens board where the air hose goes through. The 'pinhole' was offset about 6 inches from the lens axis. Thus the coffeepot and cups was the designed picture and the window would have never been seen. You can see the ghost of the 2 cups in the upper left.

It's a double image, one with the lens, and one with the lensless 5/16ths hole acting like a rather rude 'pinhole.

Note the black background behind the cups and urn. That allowed a pallet for the pinhole image to register on. It was supposed to look like this;


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Miscl_Tessars/15CookeCoffeepotS.jpg
cooke 15.5" series IV

[taulen]

Hah, that was kinda cool ! :D Nice mistake ;)

[leighmarrin]

I was photographing the railroad crossing hardware, and saw two guys approaching. My Speed Graphic was mounted on a loosely set-up tripod, and I quickly focused on a small tree near them, and pressed the shutter, not taking the time to align the verticals.

Looking at the negative for the first time, I realized I had more problems than crooked verticals! The short tree was focused, but not the two men near it. I'm amused and a bit bewildered with the narrow, inwardly-curving bowl plane of focus of a wide-open 6"/f4 petzval lens on 4x5... not a good choice for quick/sloppy landscape shots.

Leigh in Santa Barbara, Calif., a petzval newbie, sometimes clueless..

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/3f1b31eb14.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

[Joe Forks]

giant light leaks arggghhhhhh

My boy with a TK45, Fuji SF 250mm @ F8 with yellow disk, TMAX100 in pyro mc

http://www.logojoe.com/Untitled-1_800px.jpg

[E. von Hoegh]

This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)

jim k

I have one just like that, I occasionally think of framing it with the title "Adirondacks at Night"

[mdm]

210mm zone plate on 5x7 Ilford Direct Positive Paper. Last one is a double exposure.

[jvuokko]

Double exposure and uneven development... Triple mistake.

http://jukkavuokko.com/linkatut/lf/45_2011-03-16-3%20haamusilta%20web.jpg

[David Aimone]

I don't usually post mistakes, except when I like them! This is what happens when you're in cramped quarters taking the photos and the film holder pulls away slightly from the camera when replacing the darkslide...it's one of the few things I DON'T like about the Chamonix...it's easy to pull away a little when removing or replacing the dark slide. :(

I think it would have been a nice one. I had used extreme vertical swing on this...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5747435611_edf809204f_z.jpg

[atlcruiser]

UUUUUUUUUUUUgggggggggggggggggggggggggHHHHHHH!

I swear I dbl checked!

deardorff 810
410 splitter board
360/5.6
#8/CPOL filter
foma 400@200
rodinal 1:50 17.5m roller


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/5747874965_28e0e89d40_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/5747874965/)
0511 15 BW 810.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/5747874965/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr

[GSX4]

Here's my mistake made today. I was experimenting with a safer version of collodion. One with no cadmium bromide, but with ammonium bromide instead. This formula needed more water in it to dissolve the NHBr... It caused me some ridges, and what looks like reticulation for want of a better word. At any rate, I like the effect.

[Richard Mahoney]

Shacklock Orion Coal Range, Annat, New Zealand

http://camera-antipodea.indica-et-buddhica.com/portfolios/portfolio-two/annat-range/annat-range.jpg

4" x 5" Astia 100F, Schneider Super-Symmar HM 150/5.6, 4 s @ f/32

Vignetting lower right from compendium shade. I was too caught up with contorting the beast to align the plane of focus. The dark patch was partially hidden by the cut out corner of the ground glass but I should have picked it up. Still, although it is clearly the result of negligence / incompetence, I am ambivalent towards it -- sometimes liking it, sometimes not.


Kind regards,

Richard

[austin granger]

Here's a drooping dandelion. I'm not sure if it wilted during the four minute (!) exposure, or whether it actually sucked up enough water to weight it's head down, but anyway, you can see that it moved. These super close-ups (my Deardorff was racked out about six feet long) are fraught with perils!

[Leigh]

When you change lenses (135mm to 120mm), refocus and recompose, you're supposed to use a fresh sheet of film. :rolleyes:

http://www.mayadate.org/pix/Mansion_err@150.jpg
Toko 4x5, 120mm/8 Nikkor-SW & 135mm/5.6 Apo Sironar-S, Ilford FP4+, Ilford DD-X 1+4 10min

- Leigh

[briand]

Double Exposure. forgot I had already exposed this sheet. BUMMER :o .
Footbridge Southbank Melbourne & Benella Art Gallery.

[MMELVIS]

Run a squeegee across the negative, and then notice you used the wrong side and put huge gauges in the negative.

[GabrielSeri]

Joshua Tree I went with my "new" Kodak 2D 5x7, went to my favorite spot in the park, I thought I had the shot of the weekend but I foolishly didn't put the holder in all the way. It took me a while to figure out what I did wrong, but that was the issue. Still kills me, I need to reshoot it soon. :)

Kodak 2D 5x7 Ilford FP4 Fujinon 250mm F/6.3
:(
http://silverpiscis.com/Photography/joshuatree5x7.jpg

[Scott Walker]

I don't even have an image for this one. I just developed some film and ended up with nothing......maybe a little base fog but who cares. Seems I pulled a new bottle of fixer out instead of DDX. We need a smiley for pulling your hair out.

[tgtaylor]

Here's one that didn't quite make it:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/6020349680_5156611143_z.jpg

Although I feel that the composition is right, the shutter speed wasn't fast enough to freeze the wave and the fog drifting in on the left is distracting. The printing also isn't up to par: the rockx on the left and right are bleeding out into the margin.

I shot this a couple of days ago and went back to reshoot it but those negatives are still in the holders awaiting development which I'll do in a couple of days when I have a few more to process.

Toyo 45AX
150mm Lens
Kodak 160NC
Fuji CA

Thomas

[Lon Overacker]

Great thread. Is this like a confessional? Oops, sorry, please disregard the reference...

Recently returned from a great trip to the Sierra and the Sonora Pass with Harley and Preston although they may disavow any association with me. I had perhaps my most mistake laden outing in 20 years. Double-exposures are easy, I did that twice on this trip. How many can say they did this THREE TIMES in one outing? Made a side trip to the ghost town of Bodie. What do you do in the middle of the day in Bodie? shoot doors, windows and reflections. I took great care to square up my images with big rear swings, front shift and even checking for coverage and blocking bellows. All that to keep the camera and tripod out of the reflection while correcting perspective. Not once, not twice, but THREE times, I then proceeded to STAND IN the reflection when exposing the film. I present the blue-shirt evidence:

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41106SH.jpg

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41107SH.jpg

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41113sv.jpg

Finally realized what the F I was doing and got out of the way:

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41114SVCL.jpg

To complete the list of screw ups:
- pulled darkslide from wrong side of holder, the one by the GG.
- pulled darkslide part way up while lens still open
- thought lens was on B for a 4s exposure, instead it was on 1s. Thought I would add 3 seconds - wrong, things move.
- dropped 300mm Nikkor face first - Fortunately, it landed on pine straw/soft dirt. no damage
- Left dark cloth in Bodie. Made 110 mile round trip 2 days later and retrieved it - right where I left it.
- other minor stuff like not checking film speed or considering bellows extension.

Other than that, had a great time in Bodie and Sierra.

Lon

[atlcruiser]

Wow Lon....sound slike a normal day for me. The 3rd image is very nice....... that is the sort of self protrait one could never plan for

[George Kara]

What is interesting in many of the images is that I don't perceive the photographers opinion of mistakes. This simply shows that the creator of an image doesn't own its ultimate meaning. Some of these "mistakes" appear to be very sophisticated manipulation of the medium. I guess you all should pretend to be artsy-fartsy and say it was the original intention of the artist. :)

[yeknom02]

Nothing much to say here.. a decent landscape ruined by the fact that I didn't put the lid of my tank on correctly while trying to do the 'taco' method.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6133/6035194781_25184d9b73_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeknom02/6035194781/)

I've also had some Fuji Polaroids ruined by putting the film holder in backwards, but of course I didn't keep those to scan in.

[Brian Ellis]

Joshua Tree I went with my "new" Kodak 2D 5x7, went to my favorite spot in the park, I thought I had the shot of the weekend but I foolishly didn't put the holder in all the way. It took me a while to figure out what I did wrong, but that was the issue. Still kills me, I need to reshoot it soon. :)

Kodak 2D 5x7 Ilford FP4 Fujinon 250mm F/6.3
:(
http://silverpiscis.com/Photography/joshuatree5x7.jpg

Nice photograph, too bad. I'm sure you're familiar with a couple basic principles of photography, taught on the first day of any beginning photography course. The first is that when you make a mistake like that it will always be on the best photograph. The second is that if you go back to reshoot, the subject never looks as good as it did on the day when you made the mistake.

[Robert Hughes]

No image - this weekend I was loading up the last of my HP5 into film holders, then opened my dark bag to see a couple freshly exposed film sheets smiling up at me. I had been storing them post exposure in the HP5 box, but was distracted by conversation and had forgotten all about them. Oh well, so it goes...

[mikezvi]

I don't even really know whats going on here on the right here, but it doesn't matter because of all my hamhanded fingerprints :/

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6073/6042306583_e37db7a888_z.jpg

[Corran]

Here is an interesting mistake. This was supposed to be my first darkroom print, but I did quite a lot of things wrong...

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/print01.jpg

[ImSoNegative]

Great thread. Is this like a confessional? Oops, sorry, please disregard the reference...

Recently returned from a great trip to the Sierra and the Sonora Pass with Harley and Preston although they may disavow any association with me. I had perhaps my most mistake laden outing in 20 years. Double-exposures are easy, I did that twice on this trip. How many can say they did this THREE TIMES in one outing? Made a side trip to the ghost town of Bodie. What do you do in the middle of the day in Bodie? shoot doors, windows and reflections. I took great care to square up my images with big rear swings, front shift and even checking for coverage and blocking bellows. All that to keep the camera and tripod out of the reflection while correcting perspective. Not once, not twice, but THREE times, I then proceeded to STAND IN the reflection when exposing the film. I present the blue-shirt evidence:

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41106SH.jpg

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41107SH.jpg

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41113sv.jpg

Finally realized what the F I was doing and got out of the way:

http://www.lonoveracker.com/images/fun/41114SVCL.jpg

To complete the list of screw ups:
- pulled darkslide from wrong side of holder, the one by the GG.
- pulled darkslide part way up while lens still open
- thought lens was on B for a 4s exposure, instead it was on 1s. Thought I would add 3 seconds - wrong, things move.
- dropped 300mm Nikkor face first - Fortunately, it landed on pine straw/soft dirt. no damage
- Left dark cloth in Bodie. Made 110 mile round trip 2 days later and retrieved it - right where I left it.
- other minor stuff like not checking film speed or considering bellows extension.

Other than that, had a great time in Bodie and Sierra.

Lon

sounds like you had one hell of a day

[kurtdriver]

I can't even think of why I did this, I needed a test shot maybe? For some reason I didn't take it seriously and think about what I was doing.Thus it has that crappy background, too small an aperture and too much headroom. O)h yeah and a bit more grass below the planter would have been nice. A boring picture.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6056/5910864976_498fd4e187_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtdriver/5910864976/)

[Tom J McDonald]

Here is an interesting mistake. This was supposed to be my first darkroom print, but I did quite a lot of things wrong...

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/print01.jpg

Bryan, sell that at Christies for a cool few mill...

[scm]

http://utahsongwriters.com/img057.jpg
Just your basic double.

[Corran]

Haha, good plan!

I really like that double exposure!! What makes it "work" is how the two front headstones are double exposed but still are rooted in the same place on the frame.

[scm]

Haha, good plan!

I really like that double exposure!! What makes it "work" is how the two front headstones are double exposed but still are rooted in the same place on the frame.

I could never really figure out why those two headstones in the front are somehow in the same place at the bottom. I actually printed and exhibited this as it was more interesting than the one that wasn't a mistake!

[Robert Hughes]

I do love that double headstone shot. Reminds me of 1970's era special efx.

[austin granger]

I love those headstones waving in the wind.

[austin granger]

Here's a weird one.

I wanted to make a picture of this old lighthouse on Sauvie Island on the Columbia River. So I planted my tripod in the middle of the beach, got everything set up, and began the (very long) exposure. The sun was setting but there was still time. All was well. Until a giant car carrier ship came out of nowhere, blasting past and creating a huge wake which completely inundated the beach with foot-high waves! Ankle deep in the water, I desperately held onto my tripod to keep my camera up, hoping against hope that the exposure might be saved as well.

Obviously, it didn't work out so well. I think my tripod must have sunk about two inches. If you look closely, you can see the ghostly trail of my ship nemesis.

[Coelus]

Not having handled my own developing or film in years showed. Several sheets got stuck together with something that spilled on them between when I developed them and when I was able to scan them, The separation was not kind. I scanned them anyway just to see what it would look like.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Not having handled my own developing or film in years showed. Several sheets got stuck together with something that spilled on them between when I developed them and when I was able to scan them, The separation was not kind. I scanned them anyway just to see what it would look like.

Looks like you might have got caught in the storm.. I like the image ! as for 4x5 processing goes I got that Jobo

[GabrielSeri]

Not having handled my own developing or film in years showed. Several sheets got stuck together with something that spilled on them between when I developed them and when I was able to scan them, The separation was not kind. I scanned them anyway just to see what it would look like.

That looks cool. I say good mistake. :)

[GabrielSeri]

Nice photograph, too bad. I'm sure you're familiar with a couple basic principles of photography, taught on the first day of any beginning photography course. The first is that when you make a mistake like that it will always be on the best photograph. The second is that if you go back to reshoot, the subject never looks as good as it did on the day when you made the mistake.

Ah.. yes so true! I still am determined to give it another go soon. ha

[Emil Schildt]

Old polaroid 655 pos/neg.

"unfortunately" they don't keep well, so lifting of the unexposed positive is common....

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/4/8/8/7/angel4.jpg

[Ari]

Old polaroid 655 pos/neg.

"unfortunately" they don't keep well, so lifting of the unexposed positive is common....

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/4/8/8/7/angel4.jpg

A beauty nonetheless.

[Tom J McDonald]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6537201577_bfc6d64c9b_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68285466@N02/6537201577/)

My last sheet of film till next week :eek:

[johnielvis]

http://utahsongwriters.com/img057.jpg
Just your basic double.

now THIS is interesting...this really works--I think something about the rigidity of the stone--it's all like perception--it would be different for a double exposure where there's something that's supposed to be wavy and move--those just look like mistakes...

but this look --- there is something here to try to GET....hmmmmm...now to try to GET what I think it can be....time to experiment....

in short--INSPIRING

[stradibarrius]

now THIS is interesting...this really works--I think something about the rigidity of the stone--it's all like perception--it would be different for a double exposure where there's something that's supposed to be wavy and move--those just look like mistakes...

but this look --- there is something here to try to GET....hmmmmm...now to try to GET what I think it can be....time to experiment....

in short--INSPIRING

Wonderful!!!

[jennirose]

Only the fourth set of negatives I've taken with my 8x10. Last batch turned out perfect...this one, not so much. Not entirely sure what happened here, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it was mostly due to my using a different negative carrier. At least I know the dust marks are actually from my dirty scanner, oops.

[mikezvi]

wah wahhhhh

This negative slipped out of the holder in a combiplan (my fault, not the device) which then battered it during inversions :/

[Sean Galbraith]

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6094/6390881705_2b0efa9145_b.jpg
Accidental double exposure.

[VinR]

Stuck locking cable release.
What a good idea! I have probs seeing close up to the focussing screen.

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/Ruby.jpg

Sinar P2 8x10, 300mm Sinaron-s wide open, HP5, contacted printed on Ilford MGRC

Jon has been busy downstairs contact printing my 8x10 negatives this week and he found this little light streak for me. Compliments of me re-inserting the dark slide like a rookie after exposure :o

[Jody_S]

Graphic, Symmar 210, handheld flash on Provia. This was about my 10th large format shot, I didn't know what 'bellows draw' meant. This is as much detail as I can pull out of the slide, scanning.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a8/Kingsmeg/mistake.jpg

[austin granger]

Just your run-of-the-mill out of focus picture. Grrr. I'm not sure if my camera shifted or if I didn't have focus in the first place-bright sand is so tough to see on ground glass! I'm thinking that maybe a lazer pointer might have helped me here. I could have shown it on the top of the dune and then focused on the point. Any other ideas?

[Nguss]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6767137959_b9309368eb_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguss/6767137959/)

It is almost as if you are actually there with this one. There having forgot to double drop the baseboard of your camera whilst using your wide angle lens that is. Ta Da! IDIOT!

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/ArrowLake.jpg
Sinar P2 8x10, 150 mm Schneider Super Symar XL, FP-4, contact printed on Ilford MGRC

Not a real easy spot to get to with a big camera and certainly not the result I was after. Must have lodged something between the camera and film holder. Could have been a bug or something, I made 6 exposures at the top of this mountain and the results were all the same but progressively got less drastic. The problem has not reoccurred since then (August).

Oh well, into the file it goes as a reminder that I need to climb up there again :(

[Jody_S]

Just your run-of-the-mill out of focus picture. Grrr. I'm not sure if my camera shifted or if I didn't have focus in the first place-bright sand is so tough to see on ground glass! I'm thinking that maybe a lazer pointer might have helped me here. I could have shown it on the top of the dune and then focused on the point. Any other ideas?

Probably too far for what I use, but in case you feel like trying: I use 5-LED flashlights, pointed at the camera. Focus on the bright dot until you can distinguish individual LEDs, using an 8x- or 10x loupe. That won't necessarily work outdoors in sunlight, and unfortunately you have to place them and then retrieve them before the shot, so that will leave footprints in sand or snow. But when it works, it's foolproof.

[Emil Schildt]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/ArrowLake.jpg
Oh well, into the file it goes as a reminder that I need to climb up there again :(

But keep the image!! maybe crop most of the clouds away..

I get a Wagnarian opera like feeling.. (Do I hear Pfafner hammering on the ring?)

I like it a lot!

[C.T. Greene]

[QUOTE=Sean Galbraith;820713 Accidental double exposure./QUOTE] Ya, I got one of them too . . .

[ImSoNegative]

[QUOTE=Sean Galbraith;820713 Accidental double exposure./QUOTE] Ya, I got one of them too . . .

very cool!!

[Tim Meisburger]

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l496/Tim_Meisburger/Christmas%202011/2011ChristmasinID033.jpg

Who knows what happened here, but it is a shame, as of the four I shot of this couple, I liked this composition the best. Adox 50 in D23, shot with a 6" projection petzval and a cardboard "Cat" shutter.

[jcoldslabs]

I pulled the dark slide on the Polaroid holder part way before closing the focal plane shutter on the Speed Graphic. As soon as I realized the error I slid the darkslide in place, re-set the shutter and took the shot anyway just to see what I would get. This is the result.

4x5 Pacemaker Speed Graphic
Bausch & Lomb Cinephor Series II 4.25" Projection Lens
Fuji FP-100C Instant Film

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/FP100C%20-%20Amaryllis%20Whoops.jpg

[jcoldslabs]

Type 55 Polaroid film that expired in 1981. Didn't know what to expect. The colors scanned that way so I left them (even though it is black and white film).

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T55%20-%20Parking%20Garage.jpg

[sly]

Another double (maybe a triple?) exposure. Spent a few days on the west coast of the Island in February.

This is the first accidental double exposure I've managed in years and years. Surprisingly it actually works reasonably well as an image.

[jcoldslabs]

Another double (maybe a triple?) exposure. Spent a few days on the west coast of the Island in February.

This is the first accidental double exposure I've managed in years and years. Surprisingly it actually works reasonably well as an image.

It does work well. If you hadn't told me I might have thought it was some strange trick of the fog or mist, not a double exposure.

Jonathan

[Christo.Stankulov]

69804

[C.T. Greene]

Actually it turned out quite nicely . . now if we could do that well on purpose!

[C.T. Greene]

Type 55 Polaroid film that expired in 1981. Didn't know what to expect. The colors scanned that way so I left them (even though it is black and white film).

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T55%20-%20Parking%20Garage.jpg Not real surprised, I'ave ran into similar effects in scanning B&W's . . probably due to scanner running set for color output, not a true b&w . . .

[RHITMrB]

I forgot to close the shutter before pulling the darkslide. I guess I put the darkslide in fast enough, because the scanner was able to pull out a little detail...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7240/6864933504_bd2d701acb_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhitmrb/6864933504/)
Amy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhitmrb/6864933504/) by RHITMrB (http://www.flickr.com/people/rhitmrb/), on Flickr

[mamypoko]

Overexposed this shot too much, miscalculated the brightness of the rising sun while doing a long exposure. Sea spray was all over the camera as well.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6048/7014335851_eef9071486_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeylu/7014335851/)

[thomas ciulei]

Overexposed this shot too much, miscalculated the brightness of the rising sun while doing a long exposure. Sea spray was all over the camera as well.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6048/7014335851_eef9071486_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeylu/7014335851/)

phantastic shot mamypoko!

here's one of my mistakes,
18x24 paper neg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7126/6870750998_1ae474ee7b_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/teeceer/6870750998/)
Paper Neg_12_02_25_F_posSMALL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/teeceer/6870750998/) by TeeSeeR (http://www.flickr.com/people/teeceer/), on Flickr

[Tim Meisburger]

What looks like a poor photograph of a an NLD campaign volunteer is actually a missed shot of Aung San Suu Kyi (entering the frame at the right). I was shooting my Ikeda Anba handheld, guessing at focus and framing, and got this a half second off. Had I had the 135mm on, instead of the 210, I would have got it.

Poor scan on a cheap flatbed scanner. The negative is fine (Shanghai 100).

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l496/Tim_Meisburger/assk3001.jpg

[scm]

http://stevemidgleyphotography.com/Scan-120406-0002.jpg
Double Exposure

[jcoldslabs]

I took only black and white shots of the inside of this theater.

Or so I thought. D'oh!

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/64T-QL---Hollywood-%26-Abs-90.jpg
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Jonathan

[sanchi heuser]

Another mistake:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5453/6908072946_f993779ccd_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/58013730@N08/6908072946/)
Deutscher Bundestag (http://www.flickr.com/photos/58013730@N08/6908072946/) von andi_heuser (http://www.flickr.com/people/58013730@N08/) auf Flickr

Sinar F2 4x5 Kodak Portra 160VC


When I wanted to photograph this vehicle, a man came out and
tried to prevent me from photographing.
He said that I'd need a permission cause I'm a professional photographer
with such a camera. LOL

A second person appeared and the two stand in front of my camera.
Slowly I got angry:
"Don't you know the law?
Didn't you get instruction before?
You didn't do your homework!

They moved off with a last:
"But you are not allowed under any circumstances to photograph my face"

BWAHAHA

Well, they hampered me 30 minutes, meanwhile the light got bad.
The truck was in a shadow light.
I preferred to make another shot directly in front of the vehicle.
This one is not so good IMO.

Say thank you to the two overzealous subjects!

[Rain Dance]

Shot with Omega 45d, Kodak ektar 152mm and Arista 100. Scanned in a regular flatbed scanner so its ugly. I have no Idea what those black streaks on the top are. :D Developed Taco style in 1:50 Rodinal.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5279/6915738960_5da8d07e6c_b.jpg

[Vaughn]

Accidental double exposure

Diana Camera
Scanned platinum print

[eddy pula]

71690
I've been staying out all night photographing drunk people in bars, one of my subjects demanded to have a try with the c330 and 55mm lens. It took about 20 minutes for them to make this masterpiece. Portrait of the Artist as a blackout drunk.

[eddy pula]

71692
Another night at the bar, 6 rolls and the lens was set to M

[jcoldslabs]

This is what happens when you load film in the dark, make sure all the holders are sealed up tight, and then turn the light on before closing up the box of film.

A rookie mistake that ruined half a box of Efke 9x12 film. I shot a bunch of it anyway to see how bad it was, and it was bad enough.

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Tree-and-Driveway-w-Leak.jpg

Jonathan

[gth]

Overexposed this shot too much, miscalculated the brightness of the rising sun while doing a long exposure. Sea spray was all over the camera as well.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6048/7014335851_eef9071486_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeylu/7014335851/)

Cut of a 1/4 on top and bottom, call it "Luminosity" and it's art.

/gth

[jcoldslabs]

This was shot SEVEN stops over rated speed. I thought I was shooting some aerial duplicating film for testing purposes, which is EI 1.5, but it turned out to be T-Max 400 (8x10). What a waste of some great film. Still I was shocked I could salvage this much of an image. Developed in HC-110 dil. E for 3.5 minutes.

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T-Max%20400%20%287%20Stops%20Over%29%20Front%20Porch%20RGB%20Full%20Hist.jpg

Jonathan

[Ramiro Elena]

I am pretty mad at this. The photography gods might be trying to tell me something...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7280/7076722979_9c8b9b6ec8_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/7076722979/)
How to ruin a nice photograph (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/7076722979/) por rabato (http://www.flickr.com/people/rabato/), en Flickr

[merelyok]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/7060316989_ec97353f29_c.jpg

Some Arista Edu 400 that has something funky going on for it.

Maybe someone opened the box to check the contents, who knows?

[Nguss]

There are some pretty great looking mistakes in this thread.

[austin granger]

Accidental Double Exposure (Construction Site with Inflatable Pool)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7219/6944710750_a93fe8143f_b.jpg

I do like the way the worker (at right) is climbing out of the pool with his ladder. :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Jody_S]

Paper negative, shot in the rain (30 secs with Scientific Lens Co. #4 RR on Deardorff). I used the dark slide to shield the lens from raindrops. Some of those drops then stuck between the darkslide and the paper, I broke one of my film holders trying to get the paper out to develop it. The result is better than my original composition.

72578

[jessicadittmer]

Paper negative, shot in the rain (30 secs with Scientific Lens Co. #4 RR on Deardorff). I used the dark slide to shield the lens from raindrops. Some of those drops then stuck between the darkslide and the paper, I broke one of my film holders trying to get the paper out to develop it. The result is better than my original composition.

72578

that is cool

[jcoldslabs]

At a lull in traffic the couple moved to the middle of the road and I moved the Speed Graphic on the tripod to the middle of the road at the same time. I quickly framed the shot and focused, inserted the film holder, made the exposure and moved back to the sidewalk before any cars showed up.

Sadly, in my haste I did not have my loupe and just eyeballed the focus. Whoops! Time to get my eyes checked. Would have been a fun shot, too. At this size the error is not too apparent, but when enlarged the couple looks really fuzzy. Drats!

Funky colors and edge effects courtesy of 15 year-old film and cross processing.

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Wigger-Wedding-4x5-LFPF.jpg

Jonathan

[Frank Petronio]

Caught a little light leak not getting the holder flat into the camera....

72781

[jcoldslabs]

Frank,

Beautiful execution otherwise. Bummer about the leak.

Jonathan

[Frank Petronio]

I think this is God's way of preventing me from making yet another crappy stock photo:

72829

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/GrandCanyonTree.jpg

T-Max 8x10 and a little uneven tray development = :mad:

[dupont07]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7239/7133901917_d2e8745247_z.jpg

It's always difficult to take portrait of my children.

[Greg Y]

Even so Ramiro.....Beautiful light!

[jcoldslabs]

Shot some very old Polaroid type 55 today. Older isn't always better!

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T55-%2881%29---Solarized-Tree.jpg

Jonathan

[Winger]

Shot some very old Polaroid type 55 today. Older isn't always better!

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T55-%2881%29---Solarized-Tree.jpg

Jonathan

I don't know - I think it's pretty cool and would blow away a "normal" shot.

[jcoldslabs]

I don't know - I think it's pretty cool and would blow away a "normal" shot.

Thanks. I wasn't all that fond of this shot; it seemed like an epic mistake, but tonight my wife and brother were telling me otherwise. I guess one person's mistake is another person's art. You just never know, I guess. I am liking it better the more I look at it, but what I see is not what the photo shows but I had HOPED it would look like when I clicked the shutter.

Jonathan

[Emil Schildt]

Thanks. I wasn't all that fond of this shot; it seemed like an epic mistake, but tonight my wife and brother were telling me otherwise. I guess one person's mistake is another person's art. You just never know, I guess. I am liking it better the more I look at it, but what I see is not what the photo shows but I had HOPED it would look like when I clicked the shutter.

Jonathan

you listen to your wife, you hear!!

I love that image!

[jcoldslabs]

you listen to your wife, you hear!!

I love that image!

Oh, I listen to my wife, all right. Trust me!

Thanks for the compliment. I do like it much better now that I have looked at it for a while. Sometimes it's difficult to distance yourself from what you had envisioned as opposed to what is really there in the image.

Jonathan

[Emil Schildt]

Oh, I listen to my wife, all right. Trust me!

Thanks for the compliment. I do like it much better now that I have looked at it for a while. Sometimes it's difficult to distance yourself from what you had envisioned as opposed to what is really there in the image.

Jonathan

That I can relate to..

[cjbroadbent]

Binned because she hould have been looking into the distance with a a mysterious smile.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lod9GULJE6o/T67ga28_-JI/AAAAAAAAK-Q/yhcNWz3B3Ek/s800/15706653-lg.jpg

[Kav]

Camera moved so it's a touch blurry, it's a shame too. This thing was a pretty awesome find, and I found it on one of the few days we had any clouds. I do have a few more negatives it to scan. Maybe I still have a good one?

Burnt Palm Tree:
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/StateSidePhotography/Arizona/Random-2012/i-KKfS2xF/0/X2/Kavanaugh2-X2.jpg


Didn't drop the bed on the Speed Graphic with the 90mm, But cropped and converted to B&W it looks great:
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/AnalogCameras/Graflex-WWII-Press-Camera/Random/i-TZHwqgD/0/X2/Kavanaugh4-X2.jpg

[toolbox]

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n259/toolbox007/4x5%20Large%20Format/3-16-11%20Lake%20Como%20Crown%20Graphic/IMG_0024.jpg

This is one of a series of landscapes I shot last year on my 4x5 CG. I loaded up my Yankee tank, and dumped in the developer...I *thought* I had enough to fill the tank. I was wrong. "Oh well...too late to stop now!" I sloshed it around trying to cover all the top of the negs...it actually worked, but some of the sheets came out of their slots and stuck to each other creating some interesting effects like this. I know a lot of people hate Yankee tanks, but other than this I've been pretty happy with mine. I've also had most of the other mishaps like double exposure, but I don't have any of them scanned.

[cpercy]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7080/7311796890_f7cb98e23e_c.jpg

Double exposure total sum better than the parts. (none of it very good)

[jcoldslabs]

Double exposure total sum better than the parts. (none of it very good)

It took me a while to get my head around both exposures. It has a surrealist vibe to it.

Jonathan

[Ramiro Elena]

And then, sometimes you just want to cut your balls off.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YHJ3kHkZVJI/T9D4qmZQJfI/AAAAAAAACFI/IB5THESuOM0/s640/Sant%2520Joan%25202.jpg

You have no idea how much I am hating this lens. Apart from the weird perspective, the cable release even shows in the picture!

[manet]

One from me (involuntary double exposure)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/manet/Doublure.jpg

[Emil Schildt]

new one from me..

Made a simple portrait of a student yesterday - for some reason her breasts are prefectly sharp - but not her face (where I focussed! I did!! I DID!! I did!!!!!... :))

[MIke Sherck]

Um, Gandolfi, old boy: her face is a little higher up... ;)

Mike

[Leigh]

but not her face (where I focussed! I did!! I DID!! I did!!!!!... :))
Yeah, right. :D Do you feel your nose getting longer (yes, I said your nose, Pinocchio). :D

Nice shot.

- Leigh

[OMU]

new one from me..

Made a simple portrait of a student yesterday - for some reason her breasts are prefectly sharp - but not her face (where I focussed! I did!! I DID!! I did!!!!!... :))

What is the problem..... :cool:

[cuypers1807]

One of my first shots with my Razzle 900. After making the exposure of the motorcycle, the cable release was stuck in the open position and when I went to set the shutter for the next exposure it fired.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7379918480_aa6b68e619_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24021575@N02/7379918480/)

[Ed Bray]

Devon Farmland Rollei IR Film

My first image from the Nagaoka Field Camera I recently purchased.

Very dissapointed with this image as I was using Rollei Infra-Red film and it does not look at all like an Infra-Red image. It was only after processing the film I realised that something was wrong and on checking my camera bag discovered that I had used a 1.2 ND filter instead of the 760nm Infra-Red filter that I meant to use.

This also means that the image was probably over exposed by a couple of stops as the exposure was 1/2 second at f22 using a Schneider 150mm f5.6 Symmar-S on a 4"x 5" Nagaoka Field Camera.

The film was processed Semi-Stand in Caffenol CL using my normal formula, time and temperature.

Another small mistake was not using a lenshood when the light was just out of picture left and there is a small section of noticeable flare on the RHS of the image which has lowered the contrast slightly.

Negative scanned on an Epson V750 at 2400dpi.


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7125/7415659090_e185a279b1_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7415659090/)
Devon Farmland Rollei IR Film (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7415659090/) by Ed Bray (http://www.flickr.com/people/edbray/), on Flickr

[mdm]

75939
Doesnt work. The too light background annoys me.

[jcoldslabs]

Here's what happens if you pull a Polaroid type 55 sheet through the rollers but don't peel it until long after it's dry. This is not my image, by the way. I was recently given a bunch of sheets of type 55 and this one was among them. I was shocked to peel it and see any image at all. I injured myself trying to expose the sheet because I could not for the life of me figure out why the paper sleeve wouldn't release from the holder to allow me to expose the film. Once that metal clip at the bottom of the sheet gets bent out of shape it can be sharp, and bending it back can be detrimental to the fleshy tip of your thumb, especially while muttering expletives under your breath in frustration. Let's just say I never dripped blood on my camera gear before. Note to self: bring a small first aid kit when photographing in the field. That, and make sure your Polaroid film has not been exposed and/or processed by the previous owner!

http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T55-_-Whoops-LM.jpg

Jonathan

[C.T. Greene]

Devon Farmland Rollei IR Film

My first image from the Nagaoka Field Camera I recently purchased.

Very dissapointed with this image as I was using Rollei Infra-Red film and it does not look at all like an Infra-Red image. It was only after processing the film I realised that something was wrong and on checking my camera bag discovered that I had used a 1.2 ND filter instead of the 760nm Infra-Red filter that I meant to use.

This also means that the image was probably over exposed by a couple of stops as the exposure was 1/2 second at f22 using a Schneider 150mm f5.6 Symmar-S on a 4"x 5" Nagaoka Field Camera.

The film was processed Semi-Stand in Caffenol CL using my normal formula, time and temperature.

Another small mistake was not using a lenshood when the light was just out of picture left and there is a small section of noticeable flare on the RHS of the image which has lowered the contrast slightly.

Negative scanned on an Epson V750 at 2400dpi.


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7125/7415659090_e185a279b1_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7415659090/)
Devon Farmland Rollei IR Film (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7415659090/) by Ed Bray (http://www.flickr.com/people/edbray/), on Flickr

Hey, nice mistake!

[zenny]

Devon Farmland Rollei IR Film

My first image from the Nagaoka Field Camera I recently purchased.

Very dissapointed with this image as I was using Rollei Infra-Red film and it does not look at all like an Infra-Red image. It was only after processing the film I realised that something was wrong and on checking my camera bag discovered that I had used a 1.2 ND filter instead of the 760nm Infra-Red filter that I meant to use.

This also means that the image was probably over exposed by a couple of stops as the exposure was 1/2 second at f22 using a Schneider 150mm f5.6 Symmar-S on a 4"x 5" Nagaoka Field Camera.

The film was processed Semi-Stand in Caffenol CL using my normal formula, time and temperature.

Another small mistake was not using a lenshood when the light was just out of picture left and there is a small section of noticeable flare on the RHS of the image which has lowered the contrast slightly.

Negative scanned on an Epson V750 at 2400dpi.


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7125/7415659090_e185a279b1_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7415659090/)
Devon Farmland Rollei IR Film (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7415659090/) by Ed Bray (http://www.flickr.com/people/edbray/), on Flickr

Great "mistaken shot"!

Just a question, is it the scanner or the lens that makes the left side of the image a bit smoky? Just curious!

/z

[Ed Bray]

Great "mistaken shot"!

Just a question, is it the scanner or the lens that makes the left side of the image a bit smoky? Just curious!

/z

If you mean the lighter area on the RHS as we look at the image, that is some loss of contrast due to flare from the sun just being out of shot. If not, I do not know what you mean I'm afraid.

Thanks both for the comments.

[northcarolinajack]

One of the most photographed stops on the busy Blue Ridge Parkway.
This was made yesterday while stopped at Marby Mill. I have several photographs of the mill and of laurel, but not one with laurel in the water of Marby Mill.

Camera -- Speed Graflex
Lens – 180mm Heliar
Film – Out of date positive film processed in C-41


Jack



www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-Harris-Photography/109348465760954

[Ramiro Elena]

I keep screwing shots up with this lens. I hate it so much...
I am sure if I were to take a photograph naked the tip of my dick would show in the frame. Need a 90mm badly.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7127/7515713998_0be43ae1ca_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/7515713998/)
Hating (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/7515713998/) por rabato (http://www.flickr.com/people/rabato/), en Flickr

[jcoldslabs]

Ramiro,

The fence is a bit of a distraction, yes, but I kind of like the crane poking into the frame. I can see why you do not, though!

Jonathan

[Ramiro Elena]

I just wanted a picture of the tree, so hard to photograph anything here without a crane, a car, a fence... There's crap everywhere!
I could make a book of pictures with a crane in the background.

[jcoldslabs]

I took a scenic shot last week with a very distracting white car in it that I didn't notice in the dark corner of the 8x10 ground glass, so I know what you mean.

Jonathan

[Emil Schildt]

a double exposure went wrong - or did it....

[Michael Wynd]

I actualy like it Gandolfi. Wearing a pig as a hat...brilliant!

[Ed Bray]

I keep screwing shots up with this lens. I hate it so much...
I am sure if I were to take a photograph naked the tip of my dick would show in the frame. Need a 90mm badly.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7127/7515713998_0be43ae1ca_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/7515713998/)
Hating (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/7515713998/) por rabato (http://www.flickr.com/people/rabato/), en Flickr

CS5 content aware fill, sorted!

[Ramiro Elena]

Not with the fence!! 0_0

[Ed Bray]

Not with the fence!! 0_0

Why not?

[Ramiro Elena]

I dind't try but it seems like a too busy pattern to fill with a good result. I might try later :)

[Kav]

Double exposure:

My son playing with my wallet (127mm f5.6 handheld)

And one of my co workers. (127mm f16 and a M5 flash bulb)

Taken with a speed graphic.
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/AnalogCameras/Prints/i-ntr9n4X/0/XL/DE-XL.jpg

[mdm]

Part of a still slightly wet 11x14 on efke IR I was looking forward to printing. Gotta go back now. This big stuff is just gorgeous but there is some skill involved. Beautiful shadows and highlight tones with detail to burn, all wasted now.
77450

[jcoldslabs]

When someone sells you 8x10 film holders and mentions that they are already loaded with T-Max 400, be wary!


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T-Max-400---Double-Exposure.jpg

Jonathan

[jcoldslabs]

And another:


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T-Max-400-Double-Exposure-0.jpg

Jonathan

[mathieu Bauwens]

Just don't know what happens on those negs. Only 3 of the 44 I made are like that. Maybe someone could help ?

78240
1.
78241
2.
78242
3.

All 3 with Nagaoka camera and a S Symmar 180mm

[Ed Bray]

Not a true mistake on it's own, but I would not have taken this image if I had been able to take the one planned with my 75mm Super Angulon in my Walker SF45 camera as because I had inserted the bellows incorrectly the recessed board of the 75mm was catching and would not fit. The only other lenses I had with me where my 210mm Apo-Symmar (with which this was taken) and my 360mm Apo-Ronar, I only discovered my mistake once I had returned home.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7710281130_f983e829e4_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7710281130/)
Venford Dam spilling (Dartmoor National Park) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbray/7710281130/) by Ed Bray (http://www.flickr.com/people/edbray/), on Flickr

[magneticred]

I took a picture of the family Christmas Tree over the top of my Vegas night shot. :(

78295

[RHITMrB]

I ran out of front rise on this one and then didn't think to use indirect movements. On top of that I used too much front tilt and the top of the steeple is out of focus. Looks good at web resolutions, I guess...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7700850926_4a4833b0f3_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhitmrb/7700850926/)
Hallgrímskirkja (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhitmrb/7700850926/) by Isaac Sachs (http://www.flickr.com/people/rhitmrb/), on Flickr

[jcoldslabs]

Taken yesterday at a pit stop on a drive to the coast. Probably shouldn't have tilted this one so much, if at all, but the whole thing was a massive screw-up anyway. I thought I was shooting type 54 and only realized it was 55 when I had pulled it through the rollers. I had no clearing bucket with me, so I peeled the film and poured bottled water on the negative to quasi-clear it and then put it in a plastic bag to keep it moist until I got home hours later.

Speed Graphic, Aero-Ektar, Polaroid type 55 film (expired 2002)


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/T55-%28LM%29---Trees-and-Road.jpg

Jonathan

[Erik Larsen]

I'm glad I'm not the only one:)

Here's a screw up double exposure of a potential nice photo. The lower half with the lake had a rainbow going from one side of the lake to the other and was shot with a 159 velostigmat and the upper part was shot with a 19" rda. I was kind of bummed about the mistake because the rainbow vanished before I could get another exposure and hence I lost the moment. it was still nice to see it I guess:)
erik

[jcoldslabs]

Erik,

Like a lot of photos on this thread, at first glance I didn't see the mistake--it looked like a second set of mountains rising in the background. Too bad to lose a shot you liked, though.

Jonathan

[Erik Larsen]

Erik,

Like a lot of photos on this thread, at first glance I didn't see the mistake--it looked like a second set of mountains rising in the background. Too bad to lose a shot you liked, though.

Jonathan

Thanks for the sympathy Jonathon:)
It was a nice scene I wish I had caught on film. Ce la vie

[Robert Brazile]

I don't post enough, but that's mostly because I don't shoot enough. As a result, a high percentage of my shots are mistakes. Here is one that contains any number of errors:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8443/7837794558_5cc7811b00_c.jpg

Well, let's see, a catalog (not comprehensive):

1. Reflector in the frame, check.
2. Insufficient light on the face, despite reflector, check.
3. Busy background for monochrome, check.
4. Buckled sheet in holder causing streaks, check.
5. Perhaps not ideal combination of scene and film, check.
6. Mediocre at best composition, check.

They say you should learn from your mistakes. I've given myself plenty of opportunities here...!

Need to take more time examining the whole frame in the ground glass rather than obsessing about focus.

Calumet CC-400, Ilex-Calumet Caltar 215/6.3 on Arista.EDU Ultra 100, shot at f/11 1/8s (in theory, haven't tested the shutter, which is a bit wonky)

Robert

[Ed Bray]

Here's a little text to explain my tale of woe,
I took my time to set things up to make my ideal show
I waited extra patiently and checked and checked again
It all looked super spiffing and along then came the train
I pushed the cord, the shutter clicked, the picture had been caught
I couldn't wait, the processing, it would be 'great,' I thought
I opened up the process drum I couldn't wait to see
I had not installed the film holder where it ought to be
Light had buggered up my image, oh my, what to do?
I'll learn from this and try again, now I'll go and have a brew.


http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m338/EdBray/ColletCockup.jpg

[jcoldslabs]

Another Fuji QuickLoad sheet that was previously exposed by the former owner. Who does that, sells outdated film that had already been shot but not processed? Grrr. It's subtle, but you can see traces of other trees in the trees on the left (blue streaks) and in the kid's shirt and face (yellow streaks). Could have been worse, I guess.

This is a color shot of a B&W image I posted earlier. I rather like the color, if it weren't for the faint double exposure.

Speed Graphic, Aero-Ektar, Provia 100F (cross processed)


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Provia-100F---P-on-Stump.jpg

Jonathan

[austin granger]

I curse you Evil Lens Shade!
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You'll just have to believe me when I tell you that this would have been the greatest grass photo of all time. :)

[austin granger]

I double curse you Evil Lens Shade!
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By the way, this is the grave of Jean-Baptiste "Pomp" Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea.

[Leigh]

Austin,

You and your lens shade get an A for consistency. :p

- Leigh