Appallingly bad pix volume 20

The view isn't bad, but the pic. of the bird? Yikes!

I hang my head in shame.

Whoa! At least I can almost "see" the bird zooming by with its catch there Margaret. :))

haaa. I love that one.

yup....that one is bad Margaret! lol

No shortage of Ruby-crowned Kinglets here...now if I could just get a could shot! lol

Margaret, what kind of bird was it?

I knew this was going to be bad, but just HAD to get a shot of the Flicker in the feeder.

Chillybean, it was the male osprey.

Bad pics nanny and chilly

Ok locked on the bird everything looks good and Snap!

I just discovered this thread and I'm cracking up. Such wonderfully bad photos and hilarious commentary. I'll have to start saving a few of the many bad ones I manage to get.

Margaret, The bird you started off the thread with is so beautiful. Any good shots of that guy I can see elsewhere?

Burn, Your "shiver" photo is so cool. I hope you got some good ones of that gorgeous light and those little cuties.

Nanny, That WHAAT image is quite artistic looking - like a painting. ^_^

Lily_Love, This is probably more than you wanted and you might already know this, but ...
When you are shooting a bird with light colors on it (your heron) in a darker environment, you either have to use a spot meter on the bird or you have to set your camera to underexpose to get the bird exposed correctly. (the camera is "seeing" all that dark area and is exposing correctly to brighten it and results in overexposing the heron's light colored feathers).

And, just the opposite, when you are shooting those dark geese against a light sky, the cam is seeing all the light area and exposing correctly for it (beautiful colors you captured in the sky!) resulting in underexposing the birds. In that case, you have to set your camera to overexpose a bit before you shoot.

After a bit of trying, you will know how much to over or under expose to get the subject exposed right. Of course, in the heron shot, the foliage would all be pretty dark and in the sky shot, you would lose a lot of the beautiful color. It's all a trade off.

Patti

Hi Patti! Yes do save some of those bad pics and share them here. Nothing like a little public humiliation!! lol

Did not notice that big branch when I looked thru the viewer at this Gold Finch... ;)

nor in this photo of a possible Tufted Titmouse.......

can't say I don't try.......Really Claudia??????

I wouldn't say this is my worst but...
The one bird looks to ready.... aim....

P_Edens,
I was just thrilled when I found this thread. I have so many more bad pictures than I do decent ones, so I feel right at home. I am glad you found it and am looking forward to seeing your bad pictures.

I got a few nice pictures of some Ring-billed Gulls and then I have this.

Oops.

oooo....that is really bad! lol

I guess this one belongs here . . .

Great Grey Shrike

Resin

Oh my goodness......That truly is dreadful Resin!!

LOL, good bad shots everyone. Patti thank you for the pointers. I just now returned to our thread from nearly a week of absence. Hah, it maybe more than I needed for right now. Given time, I maybe able to digest the helpful information once my head is cleared up. I've been more than the proverbial 'under the weather' kind of being. Be back soon with more aweful picies.

We will be waiting!!

Shaky pileated......

Baad picture, Resin. The Pileated looks to have had too much caffeine, Nanny. :)

Terrible bad Pacific Loon.

Some bad pic. in year past. Pic. was taken Sept. last year.

"Walking on water" litterally;

Just in case if one's wondering what that was. It was one of these guys/gals which are my winter friends--the Snow birds American Coots.

This poor hawk didn't have a chance with the 30-35 mph wind gusts!

Pic. is too bad, I was reluctant to post it on the I.D. forum. Vulture?

I think so.

Thanks Nan. Here is more. Canadian Geese across the bank.

Thanks Resin. I thought of 'em being vultures for 1st I saw one, then two and the flock was a whoopy seven of them. They were flying overhead.

Taken through a screen and glass. It really messed up the colors of an already odd looking Junco.

LOL at Lily's Coot.

Here's mine. See the little head?

Those watchumacallit "water chickens" are fun to watch, Chillybean. I just love them. Here is another of my favorites to watch for their antics. This one is intermittently coming in/out of the nest box for roosting place as the weather changes. The dark streak is an object on the widowpan. Ugh!

Dreadful, Chilly and Lily.

I found a couple of baddies...

I enjoyed watching these two play king of the mountain, fighting over who got the best perch at the top of the pipe. I was busy snapping photos completely forgetting that the white feathers of the white morph Reddish Egret were going to blow out. While I can probably recover most of that detail, without getting seriously creative in Photoshop, I can't fix that horribly messy, littered shoreline. I never even noticed that trash until I got home and started looking. Yuck.

And this one... Well, that is a Snowy Egret in flight. I promise. ^_^ And what about that wonderful, sharply focused marsh grass! Hah!