And this is a piece I like to call “Damn you, Autofocus! Damn you to Hell!”
Tag: FotoFails
I always think birds look weird when you can only see the backs of their heads.
#Fotofails: I had a lot of trouble getting the camera to focus on this Black Phoebe and not the tree behind it, but that wasn’t the problem in this shot. I always think birds look weird when you can only see the backs of their heads.
Trying to get a close-up view of the mushroom from below the gills.
Trying to get a close-up view of the mushroom from below the gills.
Oh, well.
Sometimes it’s hard to get a good view of the wildlife.
Yeah, rolling shutters and butterflies don’t always mix well
The barley is taller than the starlings.
I spotted a bunch of starlings darting around through the wild barley in the open space near an odd street intersection.
Problem: The barley is taller than the starlings. Most of my photos look kind of like this.
#fotofails #birds #nature #barley
Possibly a goldfinch
And another bird, possibly a goldfinch, that took off as soon as I snapped the shutter.
A birb caught in the act of NOPE!
Hey, at least you can tell it’s a gull
I haven’t been able to get out anywhere that seagulls land or perch in a while (except, now that I think about it, the grocery store a few weeks ago where I saw two gulls fighting over some trash in the parking lot), so I’ve only seen the gulls flying overhead, where they’re hard to capture on camera.
I finally did! Sort of.
(Hey, at least you can tell it’s a gull.)
*sigh*
#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue butterfly that actually paused long enough for me …
#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue #butterfly that actually paused long enough for me to take a picture…with its wings open, even! But my camera kept insisting on focusing on the leaves behind it. 🙄
@SolanumGF Yeah. Sometimes it’s like…can I have manual focus back, PLEASE?
When auto-focus goes bad…#FotoFails
I don’t think there’s *quite* enough detail on the seagull here to identify the species!
I found this while looking for old pictures to submit to iNaturalist. I don’t think there’s *quite* enough detail on the seagull here to identify the species!
The ship, incidentally, is the Queen Mary, launched in the 1930s as a transatlantic liner. It’s been permanently docked in Long Beach, California for several decades and is now run as a hotel.
#FotoFails #Seagull #ship #QueenMary #California
Finally got a picture of one of the sparrows nesting in the parking structure! Oh. Well…
Finally got a picture of one of the sparrows nesting in the parking structure!
Oh. Well. So much for that idea.
One of these days….
#Fotofails
I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to …
I took a break from errands and went to the bluffs above the beach to watch boats and seagulls. It was super windy, and the seagulls were hovering in the updraft…and riding the wind *sideways*!
That, and the usual wheeling around, made them difficult to catch on camera.
This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong …
This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong to me. I was going for a view with the daffodils in focus and the coral tree behind them blurry, but unfortunately it’s not blurry enough to look intentional.
I took a shot with my film camera too, but I haven’t finished the roll yet, so I won’t know for a while whether that one came out better.
#fotofails #photography #garden
Another of my #fotofails from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park…
Another of my #fotofails from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. I’m terrible at holding binoculars steady, so I’ll take zoomed photos to see what’s in the distance. I think these were antelope or something, but the camera autofocused on the cables holding a balloon between the deck I was standing on and the open area below. For comparison, the giraffes at a similar distance are a lot clearer.
Thought I had a great view of these stalks and dried-out flowers at a seasonal …
Thought I had a great view of these stalks and dried-out flowers at a seasonal marsh, but the lens flare…
The actual good photos from my hike are on Flickr, if you’re interested
