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/
My Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124028194@N04/
A (headless) blackbird rummaging among the fallen leaves
I think by now, the mistle thrush had gotten fed up with me and my camera, especially as it was wanting to feed and I kept getting in the way....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
The winter thrushes rocked up today - had about 30 Redwing flinging leaf litter everywhere and I managed not a single decent photo and then the battery went flat :(
Cin J
Noooo!
Most of my photos are bad ones so I won't put all my bad ones on here!
Just a few to start off
This was one of my first photos from when I got my first camera. Can you see the Dunnock?
5 starlings and I couldn't get one without a twig or branch obscuring something!
I was so pleased about getting the wire into focus when this jolly bird came and ruined the picture! (Its a gull by the way)
Regards
Benji
BenjiS said:
I'll share a little secret with you, most wildlife photographers have more bad photos than good, even pro and press photographers will reel off a great many photos just for that one publishable pic. Nature isn't easy to photograph and when the weather doesn't play ball as well, it can make the whole thing interesting.
Thank goodness for digital, or the costs developing film would be horrendous!
A recent trip to Middleton Lakes, the out takes....
A blue tit with leg appearing to protrude from its beak!
And a goldcrest determined not to get in on the scene (so antisocial)
I wasn't trying to take photos of diving ducks ...
Honestly "guv" it was a Bearded Tit I saw ........one of over half a dozen feeding on the reed heads by the side of the Causeway and then crossing over to the other side of the public footpath
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Regards, Hazel
I swear there are 1/2 dozen Brambling in there - I failed to get any decent photos. Hopefully they will be back as they were using the stream and overhanging tree foe a wash and brush up