Photo Flops ~ Focus

You've had a lovely day out with the camera, all your pictures look great on it's little screen and you go home happy.

BUT

When you download them onto the PC, you find that in several of the pictures you thought would be the best, the subject is out of focus and all the background is in focus. 

 How frustrating is that?

It's a common problem when using auto focus, but birds are far to quick for manual focus I find, so I have to take my chances.

Very Occasionally, I will try and tweak the picture to sharpen it up, but I really don't like to do that. For me it's all about capturing the right shot, not taking a picture and manipulating it to look good.

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Photo Flops ~ Glass

I can never take a decent picture when things are behind glass.

I don't use a flash, but there is always far too much light causing reflections.

 It's soooooo frustrating!

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Photo Flops ~ The Dog

As you know if you follow my Silent Sunday posts, I love to take Macro and Reflection pictures. BUT

I have a common problem when out and about trying to take pictures.

 My little dog Badger Boo, he thinks the camera is all about him and is forever sneaking into shot. 

How many times has this happened to you too?

Can you think of a caption for this picture?

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Yes I could put him on the lead, but I don't, these are his walks and sometimes his antics can result in a cute picture.

Other times he will run through the puddle I'm trying to photograph for a reflection and the moment is lost in the ripples it causes.

I don't get upset about it.
It's all part of the joys of owning a dog, I just move onto the next picture, because there's always another one just down the path.

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Photo Flops ~ Flash

Taking pictures of my dog Badger Boo indoors is getting harder and harder. The reason is, he has Cataracts and PRA, so if I use the flash it gets mirrored straight back at you and he has spooky white eyes.

When taken without the flash, the picture is too dark to see his beautiful little face because of his markings as seen below.

If you have any hints and tips how to avoid this problem I would love to hear them.

If you have any Photo Flop problems then link up below and hopefully someone will have the answer for you.

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Photo Flops and Trying to Avoid Them

Badger Boo had a great Snow Hat and looked so cute, he got it when he sneezed and face planted the snow. I was on my mobile, it just wasn't fast enough to get a decent picture before he shook it off. 

What a Photo Flop!

What Photo Flops have you had? .

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Animals + Camera = Not What You Expect

I love to take pictures of our local wildlife and my dog Badger Boo, but animals can be very hard to photograph, as anyone who has tried will know.

On a recent walk I decided to take some pictures of a mother swan and her grown up cygnet. The cygnet wasn't too keen on this, which resulted in him swimming towards me rather aggressively.

As I had the dog with me, I took the hint and moved back and used the zoom. Soon enough they calmed down and started behaving naturally. I loved the shape they made when preening their feathers so decided to aim for this type of picture. I took many out of focus ones like below.

I did eventually get what I consider the perfect shot, which I posted as my Photo of The Week titled "Elegance"

I also wanted a picture of Badger Boo gazing across the lake for his latest blog entry, this was a lot harder to achieve. All he wanted to do was jump in and go for a swim, which I don't allow him to do at this location due to the abundance of various ducks, geese and fishermen.

I took many pictures similar to those below of his backside poking up as he tried to jump in at various locations around the lake.

These are just a few of my photo flops taken this weekend whilst walking around Broadwater Lake with Himself and Badger Boo.

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