Old thread here: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/chat/f/2542/t/22684.aspx
Because the original thread has, fittingly enough, 'gone bad', it's time for a new 'Bad pics' thread. Here, we celebrate the very worst of our wildlife photography. The subject matter is always brilliant, but the photos are very much not. If it's out of focus, chopped in half, frighteningly under- or over-exposed or terrible in some other way, it belongs here :)
Here's my first (first of many, no doubt) contribution to the new thread, a Goldcrest taken at Barnes yesterday. You need only minor incompetence to take a blurry photo, and the same to take a really under-exposed photo, but to do both in one go requires a special level of cackhandedness.
My blog: http://mazzaswildside.blogspot.co.uk/
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(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
"This is my anti-birder disguise. No one will know what I am behind this!"
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Linda257 said:
That poor thing looks like its been skewered!
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Linda257 said:Ano its just a tad windy
It is now, its deflated! LOL
Loving the comedy of recognition, not to mention the jaw-dropping photos that would have been, but for a freak of fate. But there are a lot of pics in this thread that I would definitely have been happy with.
A quick demonstration of what I mean ...
Bewick's swan: a great introduction to digiscoping
Garden sparrowhawk: an unusual close encounter with this fearsome hunter
Japanese macaques, showing the complex social behaviours they're famed for
Denisia albimaculea, a county first no less. I did also photograph it through my NHM pocket microscope, but had to do so in two halves (front and back) to fit everything in.
With a captive subject it becomes much easier to compose your shot.
I believe this is a Japanese rat snake. But to be honest, having seen this shockingly composed and exposed shot, complete with camera shake, I no longer care.
Headless fox with watering can.
Digiscoping masterclass.
I hope I have managed to dissuade at least some of you from putting away your cameras permanently.
Kind regards, Ann