camera oops
Have you ever made a mistake while using a camera and ended up liking the “bad” photo best?
I had borrowed John’s digital point and shoot and had aimed the thing at one of the local native plants, a blooming bush poppy, Dendromecon rigida. The camera took forever to focus, and I thought it’d done its thing. But the flash went off as I was moving to put the camera back in my pocket.
The resulting photo combines a blurred rendition of the plant and mulch with just a little bit of subject matter frozen in place by the flash. It’s nothing you’d use to identify the plant, but I like it as a photo…
April 26 2009 06:20 am | Categories: gardening • photography | Tags: bush poppy • Dendromecon rigida • photographic mistakes
ryan on 26 Apr 2009 at 11:39 am #
It’s partly a testament to the bush poppy’s bloom color I think. They have one of the prettiest yellows of any plant anywhere.
Sande on 26 Apr 2009 at 4:08 pm #
Yes, I’ve had that happen too. It’s one of the things that make photography so much fun! I like the artistic quality to your ‘oops’ photo.
lostlandscape on 26 Apr 2009 at 6:34 pm #
Ryan, I agree about the clarity of yellow of these plants–not greenish, or orangeish, but pure, bright yellow.
Sande, thank you. It’s great to remain open to interesting accidents.
Steve on 26 Apr 2009 at 6:59 pm #
Interesting James. Hey, I have about 400 of those for sale real cheap!
But it is Impressionistic almost. The composition has that extremely bright yellow center and the rest you fill in.
lostlandscape on 27 Apr 2009 at 7:10 pm #
Steve, I bet you’ve got some winners in your “reject” pile!
susan (garden-chick) on 28 Apr 2009 at 7:45 am #
Fun idea, creating an “action shot” out of a plant (even if it was unintentional).
Alice Joyce on 28 Apr 2009 at 8:42 am #
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Cheers!