From Fiji: The Evolution of a Crappy Photo

I posted this here because I consider it mostly humor. Please move it if it's in the wrong place.

As I was downloading photos, I chuckled at this series and thought some might find this amusing. Illustrated here is the process that a photographer might use to take a Crappy Photograph.

I was cruising the reef, and as always, looking for something interesting and eye catching to photograph. I found this lovely red sea fan in front of an opening in the reef to blue water on the other side. I said to myself "there's a crappy photo here, let's see if I can find it"

First, let's see if I can capture the blue water though the fan....nope

Well, let's frame the blue just above the fan...nope, fan underexposed

Ah, now THIS is getting crappy!

Back where I started..Let's speed up the shutter!

faster shutter, losing the blue

Let's get closer! Now, burning out the fan and losing light on the bottom

A little higher angle, another little tweak...

OK let's lose the fan altogether..

Hey look, over there's a clownfish! :gives up and swims away:

:-)

Hey, you stole my shooting style!

-Gina

Interesting evolution of your image...

But inquiring minds want to know how you make your little avatar change from eel to eel with a quote????

Interesting evolution of your image...

 

But inquiring minds want to know how you make your little avatar change from eel to eel with a quote????

It's an animated GIF file. A friend of mine made it for me from a couple eel shots I took.

Love it!

Think most of us will recognise this approach! LOL

Thanks for telling the story of my life.

I used to fill a waste basket with my crap-ish slides; now they go into the bit bucket. Thanks for the laugh.

Bob

Think most of us will recognise this approach! LOL

yeh, I don't realize how much I tweak underwater, but when I downloaded this series I laughed to myself.