Stupidity

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on July 27, 2008 at 10:46am

I don't see exif data for first photo,so I suspect when you focus you be so excited and camera focus on grass in foreground. Second photo is focus right but with so little DOF and with 400 iso you never got sharp photos.

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Permalink Reply by jadeast on July 27, 2008 at 11:27am

I'm glad you can laugh about this. Frustrating? We've all done it, but if anone ever comes along and wants an image of a deer's backside you've got it.

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Permalink Reply by selina shulamit steiner on July 27, 2008 at 5:25pm

Still, it is a nice picture, and has the free feeling of the real wild not staged or taken on a farm

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Permalink Reply by Tim www.tcphotodesign.com on August 28, 2008 at 4:29pm

Try, putting the camera to your face in front of someone, your highly focused on composition, making sure you have the ISO where it needs to be, all the settings are set and you forget and press the side of the camera, (canon 20D) the flash button pops up, the eye piece pushes out, thumping me in the eye and jolting me out of position while the person laughs in front of me, saying what happend to you...lol Always the professional...

Some times we just get so focused we forget...happens to the best of us.
Embarrassing.

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Permalink Reply by Howard Harrington on August 28, 2008 at 5:59pm

We have all, done stupid things.. with our shots...That makes photography Great!!!! Lol

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Permalink Reply by Neal Jorgensen on August 28, 2008 at 11:37pm

This is why I started this discussion. If we are aable to laugh at the situation, and share that humor with others we not only have fun memorys, but brighten others days. Thanks all for sharing your thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by Mulgabill on September 5, 2008 at 6:40am

I can really feel your pain :0-(. How many times have others of us have missed the "magic" show.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Yeo on September 5, 2008 at 7:02am

Join the club of stupidity.......I have many of them........well deleted them now as they took up too much space on my hard-drive! Maybe go back to the same spot and hide in the bushes yourself with a tripod set up. But as said before we all do it and when you get home or back to the car and look at the LCD you kick yourself big time. There is always tomorrow as my Mum says.

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Permalink Reply by nathan mccreery on October 17, 2009 at 3:00pm

Nice Grass.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Coniff on October 18, 2009 at 6:33pm

At the last minute I had to take my daughter to a friends house about 35 minutes away. It just so happens to be near Eagle Creek Park, one of the largest municiple parks in the US. Great I thought, a chance (excuse?) to grab the camera and tripod and get some fall shots. After dropping her off I hurried to the park. found a turnoff and took off down a trail just as the sun was hitting the horizon. Upon finding a picture perfect spot I reached into my bag for my camera and it hit me....the battery is plugged into the wall at home! The moral of the story is, Always carry a second battery!

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Permalink Reply by Keven Kanten on October 19, 2009 at 9:32am

Okay - I've been trying to catch a picture of the black bear wondering my land for month and months. No baiting. So one day I leave the cabin, grab brand new batteries, toss them into the camera and off I go. There, right on the power line is the bear. He is facing away from me right out in the open. I pull up and kill the ranger engine and lift my camera. I push the power button and the lens pops out. the Bear is now twisting around to look at me. The camera is dead. I figure I plopped the batteries in backwards, quickly flick them out and back in. Jasper is now turned right around and is looking at me but not leaving. Fantastic. Push power... the message pops up, Batteries discharged - replace! NOooooooooo! Jasper the bear is now STANDING UP to get a better look at me. I desperately try to get the camera to respond. Just one pic!! Jasper realizes I'm doing something and I'm too close for his comfort. Damn! Off he runs into the bush. I get back to the cabin and tell my wife what happens. I demonstrate how I pushed the camera power and.... what? It fires up and is ready to take one picture. WTF?
And you feel stupid? I have fox, deer, moose, coyotes and all kinds of varmits but not the bear! One of these days!

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Permalink Reply by Fred on December 27, 2009 at 11:21pm

Stupidity or as I call it ' I'm brainless ' happened to myself yesterday. It was cold but a bright sunny day. I was hiding in a hide in an area where it is known that Red Deer Stags frequent. I spotted a stag coming towards the hide, I took a picture and the dreaded low battery appeared in the camera viewfinder. I placed my hand in my pocket and NO SPARE BATTERY!!!!
Well I had one photograph and that stag stood outside the hide for 15 minutes, what a great sight and was I so disappointed that I had a useless camera with me.
It happens to everyone and hopefully it will focus my mind after that missed chance of a lifetime.

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