Images of mistakes - good or bad..

[Tim Meisburger]

I was in Manilla on a business trip and I happened to have my modified Crown Graphic kit I put together just for work trips like this. After two weeks in the Philippines and a total of two shots, I was anxious to shoot something, so I set up the camera to capture the view out my hotel window, where night and day a large crew was demolishing and old hotel. I was at the Dusit Thani,and you can see the new Holiday Inn on the right, so there were plenty of people enjoying this spectacle. Anyway, popped on the 90mm Optar and composed the shot, then decided to add a red filter to bring up the clouds.I used my brand new series vi holder with lens shade; first time on the 90mm.... Following the mistake is a crop.

[jcoldslabs]

Mistake #1: Didn't account for bellows extension so it was underexposed one stop.

Mistake #2: Double exposure of some kind.




Jonathan

[Christo.Stankulov]

Mistake at the development. Wrong light trap for big tank for 2 spires.

[Christo.Stankulov]

1. The same mistake. as the previous photo.


2. Emulsion transfer, caused by sandwich with another sheet.

[jcoldslabs]

I shot a 4x5 pinhole image the other day and somehow managed to overexpose it by four or five stops. The negative was so dense I could barely make out any detail, but for fun I thought I would see what I could salvage from it in a scan. This is a severe crop with significant levels tweaking in Photoshop. There's more detail than I thought there would be, but at the expense of noise, noise, noise. Despite that it's sharper than I expected from a pinhole.



Jonathan

[Kav]

Stuck in Africa trying to develop photos with out hot/running water, diluted chemicals, and dust... so much dust....


(Kodak Portra 400)

[StoneNYC]

Stuck in Africa trying to develop photos with out hot/running water, diluted chemicals, and dust... so much dust....


(Kodak Portra 400)

Still looks good Kav as always

[StoneNYC]

First time using my 4x5, started to pull the dark slide, realized the shutter was still open, pushed the dark slide back down, closed the shutter and took the shot anyway, I was out of film (only loaded 4 images). Oh well... Not terrible if I crop it square.

[jcoldslabs]

Stone, please take no offense, as none is intended, but it cracks me up that you even watermark your mistakes.

Jonathan

[StoneNYC]

Stone, please take no offense, as none is intended, but it cracks me up that you even watermark your mistakes.

Jonathan

Hahaha!!! Doh!!

I exported them all together as a batch of the "family photos" and that was what was in my Dropbox which is where I pulled the image since I'm on my phone not computer. However, my normal process is to import all images to Lightroom, they are stored their in their native TIFF/RAW format, and exported as smaller JPG's for Internet sharing, always watermarked, ALWAYS. Only my "for print" file has large file unwatermarked images. I've already seen older images stolen or show up on sites, one model from 6 years ago recently found her image on a porn site, my watermark was what was able to get the site owner to take it down (her ex BF has submitted it) the watermark SHOULD have prevented it from even being on the site, but at least it was enough to get it off. It wasn't a graphic site, just a "submit your ex GF" site. It was a nice image nothing suggestive, just nude.

Not that I think this image will end up on a "submit your granny" site, just that as part of my normal habbit I watermark everything.

One time on APUG a guy admired that he was on there to save all the images that were his favorites to his computer and sometimes his clients would see them and use them on small projects, F-that... He was blocked of course... But you get the idea. Better safe than sorry

I'm not ashamed of this image, it was my 4th image ever taken on LF, so I messed up, so what haha, it's my second portrait ever taken, not too bad considering

No offense taken, it takes a lot to offend me, just don't insult my character as an honorable person, and you can say anything else you want.