Your best worst photo!

[Huss]

This is for those pics where things went wrong but dumb luck and sheer
flukiness resulted in an image you actually like!

I was testing out this musty folder that a friend gave to me as a gift and there is no way I can luck out like this again.

Kodak Autographic Folder Brownie #2, Ilford Delta 400, crazy light leaks through the 105 year old bellows...

 

[raydm6]

That is awesome!

 

[Larry Cloetta]

That's going to be hard to beat, Huss. I'll pass.

 

[Huss]

C’mon Larry that was pure luck! We all have pics that work in spite of our efforts!
Usually it’s lens flare, light leaks, messed up developing etc

 

[Swift1]

This is for those pics where things went wrong but dumb luck and sheer
flukiness resulted in an image you actually like!

I was testing out this musty folder that a friend gave to me as a gift and there is no way I can luck out like this again.

Kodak Autographic Folder Brownie #2, Ilford Delta 400, crazy light leaks through the 105 year old bellows...

This could be fun...
Cool photo Huss.

Here's one of my best mistakes. If you have ever shot with a Hasselblad 500C then you probably know that if you are shooting at slow shutter speeds like 1s then you have to hold the shutter button down until the lens shutter closes, otherwise you will close the secondary shutter before the exposure is complete.
Well, I forgot that on this shot. I was shooting expired Agfa APX 25 and this was supposed to be a 1 second exposure, but was probably more like 1/8 second, around 3 stops underexposed. The negative looks almost totally transparent, but the final results were really cool.

Untitled by Colton Allen, on Flickr
Hasselblad 500c/m
Carl Zeiss Planar C T* 80/2.8
Agfa APX 25 Expired
Epson V500​

 

[sreed2006]

Does this count?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yATDNy]What could possibly go wrong? by sreed2006, on Flickr[/URL]

 

[Huss]

This could be fun...
Cool photo Huss.

Here's one of my best mistakes. If you have ever shot with a Hasselblad 500C then you probably know that if you are shooting at slow shutter speeds like 1s then you have to hold the shutter button down until the lens shutter closes, otherwise you will close the secondary shutter before the exposure is complete.
Well, I forgot that on this shot. I was shooting expired Agfa APX 25 and this was supposed to be a 1 second exposure, but was probably more like 1/8 second, around 3 stops underexposed. The negative looks almost totally transparent, but the final results were really cool.

Untitled by Colton Allen, on Flickr
Hasselblad 500c/m
Carl Zeiss Planar C T* 80/2.8
Agfa APX 25 Expired
Epson V500​

Yeah that’s what I’m talking about! That looks great.

 

[Huss]

Does this count?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/yATDNy]What could possibly go wrong? by sreed2006, on Flickr[/URL]

Sure! What happened?

 

[sreed2006]

Sure! What happened?

First frame on a roll. The film had not been advanced far enough after loading.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

C’mon Larry that was pure luck! We all have pics that work in spite of our efforts!

Yeah, I know it was luck, but luck is even harder to command than skill.
I’ll see what I can dig up🙂

 

[Moto-Uno]

I have more than a few of these 🙂 , Peter

 

[wintoid]

My wife didn't really get how to focus a rangefinder, but I loved the result anyway. This is me and my daughter about 12 years ago 🙂

Log dance by wintoid entity, on Flickr

 

[Huss]

Moonscape borealis..

Kodak Autographic Folder Brownie #2, Ilford Delta 400

 

[raydm6]

Huss, don't fix that camera! Love it!

 

[Huss]

Thanks! Before I put film in this lump I checked out the "lens". It is behind the shutter and from the back I could see that it is surrounded by a knurled ring, like a VF eyepiece. So it just unscrews, which I did to clean off gunk that was on it. It still had a sort of film on it no matter what I did so I just put it back in and shot a roll just to see what would happen.
Et voila!

These things can be bought for $10-ish, so if you want an 'art' camera that you have no idea how things would turn out, there ya go!

p.s you may even get lucky (unlucky?) and find one that works properly!

 

[charjohncarter]

Slide from 1964 by John Carter, on Flickr

 

[wpb]

Huss wins the award for a camera that takes better pictures when it is broken. Comparing the two photos there is some rhyme and reason to the light strikes, super cool.

 

[css9450]

Huss wins the award for a camera that takes better pictures when it is broken. Comparing the two photos there is some rhyme and reason to the light strikes, super cool.

Either that, or the Northern Lights in southern California are really fantastic!

 

[Huss]

Slide from 1964 by John Carter, on Flickr

Excellent! That has a dreamy ethereal look.

 

[charjohncarter]

Excellent! That has a dreamy ethereal look.

Thanks, I've held on to this one for 55 years, finally I found a reason to post it.