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Images of mistakes - good or bad..
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/000...-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/000...r-_800x600.jpg
(PS: I also have plenty of mistakes that doesn't work at all.. some quite funny :rolleyes: )
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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.
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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.
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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.
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!
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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/000...er_800x600.jpg
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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.
What a beautiful image. This is NOT a mistake , but a very happy accident!
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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.
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bump
C'mon, how about a few more?
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Stuck locking cable release.
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Steve Wadlington
Stuck locking cable release.
I think we have all been there...:D
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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
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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.
There's a real Jerry Uelsmann feel to that one. I like it!
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Attachment 37069Inadvertent double exposure. Crown Graphic. Near Tucson.
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Here is one of my many mistakes. Uncoated Voltas 13" lens pointed into the sun with out a lens hood. Guess what happens?
Wayne
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This is my worst image ever, and although it is a repeat image, it will not be my last... :)
jim k
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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
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.
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jim kitchen
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!
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http://www.brandonallenphotography.c...eeUtahLake.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.
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fenderbja
http://www.brandonallenphotography.c...eeUtahLake.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
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jim kitchen
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!! :)
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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/4x5/4x...e_truck_01.jpg
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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;--)))
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/...e4fafb92_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.
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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 ;-)
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"the stuck cable release" is awsome lmao.
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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
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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.
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Robert Hughes
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
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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/4...ngerprints.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/4...i-exposure.jpg
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These are all great! Keep them coming please. =D
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I like those fingerprints - adds the "personal" touch! :)
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http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...ol/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
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theBDT
Oh, that's spooky. The alter ego.
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well, forgot to turn filmholder....
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Miguel Coquis
well, forgot to turn filmholder....
Reminds me of a scene from a 70's porno flick - right down to the misregistration! :p
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Robert Hughes
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....
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double exposure (not on purpose) - cropped to a square..
http://static.phosee.dk/pictures/000...-3_800x600.jpg
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http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...arilCreek2.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 :(
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gandolfi—has a kind of "Man Ray" feel to it... :)
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4x5 Graflex shutter curtins
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Steve M Hostetter
4x5 Graflex shutter curtins
Shot under fluorescent or other AC arc light?
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Steve Wadlington
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.
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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:
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Robert Hughes
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
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tmbg
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:
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one more found..
"angelic light" ?