February 2011 Rejects

February was a great month for rejects!

This month I found

• out of focus toes
• an unfocused dog edging out of the frame
• a little boy a little too close to the lens
• a fast moving bird
• out of focus pirates with a pain in the neck
• and  a shutter gone wild

What did you find in your reject pile?

Strange. He has the same shirt on in all the rejects. What can THAT mean?

December Rejects

Happy New Year's Eve! What better way to wrap up the year than with the rejects of December! I'll share these, put them behind me and move on to fresh things in 2011.

And for December, I think I'll leave these without explanation. The out of focus oddness says it all!

Happy New Year! Here is to embracing our reject photos and finding more in the coming year!

November's Rejected Photos

It's time to show you the reality of shooting every day. Are you ready for a dose of November's rejects? This month is brought to you by the sky, the ground, an elbow.

I think this month's rejects are far better than last month's!

The balloon shot. Okay. It was moving. 

Yes, moving right out of the frame!

The ever illusive dog. I'll get him. Someday. I really will

When flare goes wild.

Superman is hard to capture. He CAN leap tall buildings and what was that about speeding locomotives? Nice focus on the clutter in the background.

The ground. I have no explanation.

Any guesses? If you said elbow, you win! A 3 year old elbow in the midst of getting out of the rain. I have a quick trigger finger. I guess. This is also why photographers don't show you everything they snap at your family portrait session. (Okay, F Family, you've seen it!)

A study in being over exposed. You can still recognize me, can't you?

When the child goes from unhappy to happy in a split second, you need to be ready. I wasn't.

Finding focus. Always working to find focus.

Posting my rejects has made me enjoy when they occur just a bit more! I often turn to my hubby and say, "one more for the reject post."

Oh, I almost forgot, #8 in the Lens Cap Series. This one speaks to me in such a different way than the previous 7.

I hope my rejects won't stop you from joining me for Capturing Your Holidays Through The Lens. It will be 14 days of fun, focused photography! I'm thinking of it as a support group for holiday photo taking! 

You can still have a chance to win a spot here.

So tell me, do you have any rejects? Dare to blog them?

October Rejects

It's time for October's rejected photos. I started this project earlier this year to have a little fun and show you the photos no one typically sees. I can learn a lot from the mistakes!

So here we go.

That sweet face you see so often? It has its not so sweet moments as well. Too close, too fast, too crazy. WAIT FOR THE SHOT.

Exactly what was I using to set my exposure here? It obviously wasn't the green grass!

Such a sweet photo of Ian and me and the brick steps. Look THROUGH the viewfinder next time, before I set the timer.

So I looked through the viewfinder. Too much chair and too much eyelid.

Again, more chair and table. I think this was a crazy finger right before the tomato shot.

Oops. What was I taking a picture of here? SLOW DOWN. And SPEED UP the shutter speed!

A mom can get pretty excited the first time her son decides to climb a rock wall. So excited she doesn't even look at her camera settings before the click. SLOW DOWN, this is becoming a theme!

My husband and I try to take a photo together when we see a mirror. Here, I missed. Repeatedly.

Oh, Halloween night. Youngsters together walking into the light after a fun evening. The moment. The beautiful silhouette. Missed because I clicked in AV when I know this needs Manual. Silly. It was a great shot in my head. I was too worried about them walking away too fast to think it all the way through. Guess what? I missed it anyway. STOP AND THINK.

I'd like to present to you #7 in a series of shots. I call it, THE LENS CAP IS ON.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing the other side of my photography! I've heard a class starts today that will help me improve my photography!

September Rejects

In an effort to keep it real, it's time again for my rejects! I had a few. 

You could call it arty, I call it underexposed.

This was a great idea in my head. Unfortunately bending over during yoga to take a picture doesn't quite allow for the best control over my settings.

And then, I went to the other extreme. Funny thing...it was the same day! Looks a bit like an alien abduction.

Again, with the underexposure. And for good measure, out of focus as well!

Perhaps the back of the lens cap? An important picture I'm certain. 

Can you see the bat? Yeah, I can't either.

Maybe, I should rethink the wide angle lens?!

So those are my best of my worst for September! I hope October is in focus and well exposed for you!

June Rejects

Remember my question about photographer's showing their bad photos? I've decided to make it a monthly feature. So today, I have for you the worst of June's worst photos!

I hope this was an accidental push of the shutter, otherwise, I have no idea what I was doing!

Never, ever ask your male model to lean his chin into his shoulder. Just a bad idea.

Can you say slightly underexposed?! I think that is my dog. Perhaps I should more closely review Get Me Off of Auto, at least the author knew what she was doing when she wrote it!

Children are hard to capture, especially when they insist on being too close to the lens! 

Is there anything about this photo that isn't just unfortunate?

Again with the eyes closed. I must have 70 of these each month!

Never ever shake a baby, especially in low light with a too slow shutter speed.

And again with the underexposed out of focus thing. You'd think I'd learn! Maybe I really do need to learn to use my flash.

Again with the shutter speed. Sometimes it's as if I just met my camera!

There you have it. And before you think these are all of my bad shots, know I have at least 50 more in my trash can! Link me up to your June rejects!