Why you should keep those fuzzy or out of focus pictures.

Your photography should be about enjoyment and fun.

If you are getting frustrated about pictures not turning out the way you'd like, you should perhaps relax about things and try to do your photography when the mood takes you or when you feel inspired.  


Just because you had taken a trip to Udaipur, it does not mean you have to have brilliant images to bring home.


But photography is about taking pictures, and you should consider each shot an experiment.


Once learn you to use the histograms (see my blog on adjusting  colour levels) to spot problem areas in your images, you will quickly learn how to correct blown out highlights and deep shadow areas.


If you are not happy with an image you can of course try again in many circumstances, electronic memory is a powerful and cheap media for experimentation.


In fact it is such a cheap medium that it allows you to keep shots that you may want to delete.  One reason that you may keep a “bad shot" is that technology is improving all the time, and soon you may find that software is available that will allow you to completely recover the detail in an image.


The reason I want to discuss is that you can easily reuse images.


Here is a reused image that I used to create a background for an ebook.
 
 
 

This image was cut from a really bad photograph taken in the dark at a Water show in Parc d'exploration, Futuroscope,  Poitiers, France.

I'm not sure why I was trying to take pictures way beyond the capability of my camera at the time though. 

But this image could not be easily produced by design.  

Here is one of my favourate rescued images and one of my favorite images anyway.

 

This picture is of the nave at St Davids Chapel, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

I tried to take a low light shot requiring a 4 second exposure.   Try as I might I could not find a suitable support for my camera so I tried to stand "sniper" still holding my camera and failed miserably.  Later however I notice that this picture was ideal for reuse using the GIMPs artistic filters, in this case one called oilify.

This has changed a picture I would have deleted into one that  has sold on the Internet and I am quite pleased with.

I have come to like the idea of creating oil painting from digital images.

See some of these at my flickr photostream

Charles.

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