Author Topic: the unpredictable (Read 5132 times)

imagesfrugales · « **on:** September 07, 2013, 10:56:41 AM »

Sometimes something goes wrong. After all the result turns out really good. Sometimes. Here I held the IR filter with my hand in front of the Olympus XA and there are reflections between the case and the rear surface of the filter.

Show your most interesting picture(s) of the unwanted, unintended, unpredicted.

Best - Reinhold

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/9692997026/#

This is the 7-Tesla building in Heidelberg. It houses one of the most powerful magnet-resonance-tomographs. Shot on RR400s, developed in PC2B 8+6 minutes

jojonas~ · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2013, 11:52:30 AM »

good idea for a thread!

my latest happy encounter with the unpredictable would have to be this shot. used a small pringles can with expired photographic paper in it.
I had no idea that the distortions would be THIS trippy~
I'm quite happy with how it ended up

Pinhole experiments: Pringles can by jojonas~, on Flickr

limr · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2013, 03:11:13 PM »

This happy accident came about when I opened the back of my K1000 to load film into it and realized it already had film in it. I slammed the back shut, figured I'd lost a couple of frames but went ahead and shot the rest of the roll. The whole roll came out kinda funky and cool. This was the best of the bunch.

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2013, 04:34:09 PM »

Fantastic thread!

My Ricoh 500G disables the light meter if you leave the shutter in bulb. Sometimes I forget to take it back out:

Don't look at me by knapjack, on Flickr

Urban Hafner · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2013, 06:52:40 PM »

On one of the first rolls with my Vito II I forgot to focus and ended up with a completely out of focus shot. I kinda like it!

Heidelberg out of focus by Urban Hafner, on Flickr

Francois · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2013, 08:57:45 PM »

Leonore: how come the time the latch on my Nikon broke, I didn't end-up with anything this cool?

limr · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2013, 09:54:19 PM »

Quote from: Francois on September 07, 2013, 08:57:45 PM

Leonore: how come the time the latch on my Nikon broke, I didn't end-up with anything this cool?

My lightning-quick reflexes and mad skillz? And by 'mad skillz' I mean 'blind luck'?

(The back really was open for just a fraction of a second, and I was shading it from the light anyway to load.)

Ezzie · « **Reply #7 on:** September 08, 2013, 07:34:12 PM »

I rather liked this one. The shutter on my Kowa 85mm f2.8 (leaf shuttered) lens decided to develop arthritis. I measured the shutter speed afterwards, approximately of course. And it was 6 stops off. So this is overexposed in the extreme. Yet I managed to scan it. You'll never see grain like this from Acros:

Two Towers by Eirik0304, on Flickr

sapata · « **Reply #8 on:** September 08, 2013, 09:24:27 PM »

My unwanted double exposure...

SLVR · « **Reply #9 on:** September 09, 2013, 01:08:29 AM »

first ever redscale

Untitled by nownownownow, on Flickr

imagesfrugales · « **Reply #10 on:** September 09, 2013, 10:05:04 AM »

Great show, guys!

Jeff.Glass · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2013, 01:59:01 AM »

An unknown double exposure on bit of the ole kodachrome. from Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. Geyser steam and my son reading a book.

Adam Doe · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2013, 02:45:23 AM »

An accidental Polaroid double-exposure.

Mike - Accidental Double Exposure by adoephoto, on Flickr

Cadha13 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2013, 02:54:55 AM »

I accidentally exposed a part of this roll and did not focus properly on it.

img014 by Cadha13, on Flickr
It came out quite awesome really.

imagesfrugales · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2013, 09:13:05 AM »

one more, accidental double exposure

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/9713593349/#

Volker · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2013, 10:42:29 AM »

Film transport problem...

Ezzie · « **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2013, 11:03:45 AM »

Pinhole in the rain. Shanghai 100 (4x5) has hopeless reciprocity characteristics (rather like FP4+) and this 150s exposure was doomed once it started raining and a drop inevitably dribbled over the pinhole.

Oak by Eirik0304, on Flickr

Ezzie · « **Reply #17 on:** September 10, 2013, 11:16:48 AM »

I have had my share of mishaps. Here's another:

The self timer switch on the leaf shuttered lens got engaged without me noticing. Once I thought I had the shot in the bag (the mirror swinging up makes a loud kaaawhuump) and I started to walk away I heard the dreadful sound of the timer clockwork. I rushed back and reframed blind (the mirror was still up of course, obscuring the view, so why am I looking into the viewfinder?). And better framing than this is difficult even with finder. Missed the focus by a foot though. So now my reflection is more in focus than I had hoped. Ah well, that´s Sod´s law I suppose.

Racer and I by Eirik0304, on Flickr

Verian · « **Reply #18 on:** September 10, 2013, 02:17:09 PM »

Taken handheld in Birmingham on a Yashica Mat with some Kodak film that expired in 1999. Totally messed up the exposure time, but I like it anyway!

charles binns · « **Reply #19 on:** September 10, 2013, 08:56:32 PM »

Took this shot without realising the switch was on bulb mode.

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #20 on:** September 11, 2013, 07:45:42 AM »

One more: botched spooling!

Analog by knapjack, on Flickr

Fluminian · « **Reply #21 on:** September 11, 2013, 04:16:42 PM »

Accidental double exposure. Smena.

Francois · « **Reply #22 on:** September 11, 2013, 10:28:37 PM »

I feel like I'm going to get something strange pretty soon! My Lomo Konstruktor tells me that I've shot more than 36 exposures on my roll of 24. And it ain't over yet...

imagesfrugales · « **Reply #23 on:** September 11, 2013, 11:34:53 PM »

Doesn't sound good. Maybe the film is torn?

Francois · « **Reply #24 on:** September 12, 2013, 02:23:05 PM »

No, the rewind knob turns when I advance the film...

limr · « **Reply #25 on:** September 12, 2013, 06:02:36 PM »

Mine was the same, although I couldn't tell how many exposures I ended up with until the roll was done because the counter never really worked. Not enough friction I guess? But for the first roll, the film would sometimes advance all the way and other times, it would only advance a little bit. I ended up with some overlapping frames and also some larger gaps between frames. It resulted in this inadvertent "pano" shot. Lomo redscale 100. I think I posted this in another thread. Can't remember. Brain is tired. Here it is again anyway. Kind of a cool accident.

irv_b · « **Reply #26 on:** September 12, 2013, 09:47:12 PM »

A couple of double exposures from a pinhole camera made from a coronet 020 box cameras when I was trying it out