photo outtakes

I thought I'd switch it up today and show you some of my photo outtakes from the past six months. It's easy to assume that experienced bloggers, article writers, Etsy sellers, etc. all take gorgeous, high quality photos all the time because typically that is what they post. What do you don't see is all of the rejected photos that never make it online. Here are just a few examples.

I know that all of you who take photos of your pets have some shots like these. I've spent most of my time the past few years photographing things that don't move and don't have the know how at this point to avoid getting a fair amount of these shots.

Sometimes the macro just doesn't work out the way that you expect.

I had the same problem with the macro here. This is also a bad angle, and you get a lovely highlight of that thread hanging off the of piece.

This was my first idea for a "gear" prompt in the Scavenger Hunt earlier this year. This shot doesn't work at all.

I was trying to capture the marbles for a "marble" prompt. I ended up using a completely different subject later in the week. This is kind of an interesting shot of the sticks, but the marbles are completely lost.

I was trying to get a candid shot of Jake recording our scores while we were playing miniature golf in the Dells last month. He looked up at the last second, though. This is just a weird facial expression.

I have a whole bunch of shots from the duck boat ride in the Dells that look like this. In this case, the objects weren't moving, but I was.

Do you remember the playground equipment shot? I was trying to get a similar shot to play around with those effects again, but this one didn't work out as well.

I'm not crazy about the green with the gray, but the bigger problem is the macro. Sometimes the close up product photography shots don't work out the way you expect.

What do you have trouble photographing?

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