71 Failed Photographs…That Turned Out Incredible

Some of the best scientific discoveries have been receive by fault , and photography is reallyno different . Here are 71 exposure shtup - ups that should , for all intents and purposes , be wretched to look at . But they ’re not . They ’re downright beautiful .

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Winner – Pine Paint

I dissipate this picture of a pine Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in my front yard with a Panasonic GH2 . I require the instruction to heart and started click picture with abandon as presently as I got home from piece of work . On this one I set a slow shutter speed and slant the tv camera up and down the tree as I crack the exposure . I knew I would get some blurry , drop back effigy but I was amazed at how much it made the tree look like a painting on a sail . I have intercourse these eccentric of photographic abstractions . I ’ll be doing a lot more of this .

-Brad Clark

Evening Traffic

I record the shooting challenge information page and immediately knew what I was go to do ; longsighted - exposure automobile picture taking , at night ! So I strike my television camera and adjust it to bulb manner at f/18 and I wait for cars to amount and I hold the shutter button down and move the tv camera in every which way . This was the resulting photo and I think it looks pretty overnice ! Equipment and configurations : Sony A200 with 18 - 70 mm Kit Lens , f/18 with 15 2nd vulnerability ( Bulb modality ) at ISO 100 .

-Nathan Boettcher

Swimsuit in Black and White

So , doing a photoshoot with a model and had the gibe plain set in my judgement , thought I had autofocus on , and took a shaft , looked back , and go “ d’oh ! ” , readjusted and run on my means . Hours afterward , doing the importation and quick to just edit when I look at the foggy pic again and give-up the ghost “ what a consummate fail ! ” kick the contrast and black floor up a few notches and converted to b&w , and voila , a Fail of a exposure that ’s double-dyed for Gizmodo ’s Fail Contest . Also , to fill out the fail , while shoot this , I was in the water … and leave behind my wallet full of cash and a paycheque in my back pocket . Total Fail . Nikon D7000 , Nikkor 85 mm f1.8 , ISO : 125 , Shutter Speed : 1/1250th

-Marc Wrzesinski

The Broadcast

I ’ve been meaning to start doing the Shooting Challenges forever , and this one seemed as dear as any to start . When I first lead off studying picture taking some of my favorite photo ’s were the ones I totally get it on up on . I exploit in a program ascendancy room , and thought that the luminance from the monitors would be really interesting , if I shot it all out of focus . I shot this on my Canon 5D at 50 mm 1/25 at f/2.8 at 400iso . I coiffure the direction to macro and stood about 8 feet back .

-Sean Hamrock

Drunken Fisherman

Oops I “ accidentally ” kicked the bottom of my tripod . Not really much of a taradiddle about this exposure . I took the power train to get there . That ’s exciting powerful ? Ohh , and some intoxicated fisherman seen me set up and picture me a pic of a rainbow . He take it with his cell speech sound and was really lofty of it . Being nice I say him that it looked great . Then I gathered my poppycock to walk to the other side of the park . Canon Rebel XSi , ISO 100 , f/22 , 55 mm , 0.6 sec , Bit of fail .

-Tim Drivas

Happy Accident

Taken with a Canon Rebel XSI with an 18 - 55 millimeter outfit lens of the eye . My protagonist and I decided to attempt to take bokeh shaft with dealings light , but I could n’t seem to get it quite right . Eventually I became shopworn of essay and congeal my shutter to bulb and shook my camera around ! This is the “ happy accident ” that resulted .

-Chance Eads

Cranes

I decided to fail by shooting at a far away subject on farsighted zoom , with a slow shutter speed , while attempting to get as clear a shot as possible . I choose a few tower crane on the horizon , zoomed up close , and set my photographic camera for a 1 second picture . I loved the way this one plough out , so I align the direct contrast a number and voila . Pure , beautiful fail . I also ( accidentally ) failed at meeting the 8 AM EST deadline this morning . I go for you will forgive me .

Canon SX210IS , ISO 400 , 70 mm , f8 at 1 second .

-Matthew Sweeney

Burning Blade Tavern Epic Universe

Blue Vinyl (Skin)

The combination of recently purchasing my first DSLR and the River Roar boat races meet some crowd in my little river town ( Marietta , Ohio ) , finally pushed me to attempt one of these challenges . After several pitiable attempts at accept interesting bad image I remember this SUV cover in vinyl skin with ridiculous patterns that is normally parked down by the levee . I weaved through the crowd and found the SUV in a mostly empty lot . I focused on the back window , put my shutter speeding to a half of a second and spun the camera as I took the mental picture . There was no further handling . I discover the result to be queerly like several of the Windows Vista nonremittal desktops I ’ve seen . pip with my Canon Rebel T3i , 18 - 135 mm , ISO 100 , f/36 .

-Jason Pyle

Door

I have had my percentage of photography fails before , but one that I had a lot was motion in my photos , since I did n’t have a tripod . Now that I have a tripod , I thought it would be perfect to have a controlled motion fail . This was sprout on my Canon XSi ( Tripod mount ) 1.6″ , F/2.0 , iso 100 with my 50 mm 1.4 lens . I worm the tripod after releasing the shutter to give the move blur .

-Seth Porter

Unexpected Pregnancy

Well I was guide some long exposure photos of this multicolored led lamp on my desk ; and after a bunch of pellet I was messing with the soar not knowing I had hit the shutter button , so I build up on it and this is what came of it .

canyon EOS 60D , EF - S 18 - 135 mm f/3.5 - 5.6 IS , f/5.6 , 1sec , ISO-100 , No ostentation .

-Josh Romero

Ideapad3i

Almost Canceled

My friend and I were doing some light painting while camping , so I wanted to see if it was possible to cancel a photo once you press the shutter when using Self - Timer . Apparently you could , but I could n’t stop this one . So I just start walk while the picture was being taken .

Canon T2i , 30sec , f/3.5 , ISO 3200 .

-Diego Ramírez

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Free Lensed

I was on my elbow room back from Salt Lake City when I check this photo op so I promptly pull off the destitute way and prove my helping hand at costless lensing which I love doing now and again . of necessity there was some serious FAIL involved before I make the injection I wanted but I think I almost like the fail picture more than the “ proper ” one . Shot with a 5D Markii , 85L f/1.2 , free lensed , processed in LR and PS .

-Kyle Ford

Lily Contrast

This flick was taken at a lily pad on Lake Sammamish in tolerant daylight . The lily petal were improbably bright liken to the leaf and turbid water . My fail was to dramatically underexpose the guessing as a whole . I set the genus Lens to f/11 , the shutter velocity to 1/2500 sec , but stuck with ISO 160 to reduce noise . I contact it up a little in Lightroom . I used a Panasonic G3 in shutter - priority style with an previous manual - focussing L39 Russian 55 mm f/2.8 lens .

-David Lee

San Franciscan Apple

After arriving in San Francisco from a holiday I noticed that there was a complete shot of the full moon quick to be convey . I meant to take a picture of it with full exposure ( to give it a more majestic flavor ) but while attempt to get in the right smirch to take it , I turn on over luggage . I ended up with this picture of cars speed by the pavement in the drome . Btw I took this with my HTC EVO smartphone at 1250 ISO . Also , encase your wondering I still generate that picture of the Sun Myung Moon :)

-Sinjin Treharne

Thanks to all the participants this week who really put their failures on the billet – I think the concept might be a bit esoteric , but you totally embraced it . Find the galleries below and full sizing shotson flickr . Oh , and if you ’re waiting to see results to ourcinemagraph challenge , our apologia . They wo n’t race until next Wednesday ( over a workweek from today ) as we encountered some bugs with the agency our system handles animated gifs .

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