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Photography
A Gallery of Bad Pictures
Don't Make These Mistakes!
*Some of these problems won't happen with a digital camera--
like problems with exposing the film to light--
but many of them can still happen, such as...
Keep your thumb,
and any other fingers,
away from the lens
when you take a picture!
Action
Shots
Be very quick when
trying to do this.
Also, don't give your camera to
someone who isn't!
Moving
Cars
If you take pictures from a moving car, chances are
you won't be happy with the results...
Blurry Mess.
Notice the reflection from the
hood of the car at the bottom.
If you look really hard,
there's a mountain in the
distance you can barely see.
Any picture taken from inside
a car is probably going to be
bad--even if the car isn't moving.
Sometimes you end up
wondering what you were
even trying to take a picture of.
Be careful when you put the camera down--
or it might take pictures you don't want!
Even with an auto-focus camera
your pictures can come out blurry, if you move.
This would've been a great picture.
This one made a lot of mistakes!
Sometimes focusing on
something close and leaving
the background blurry
looks good...
...and sometimes it doesn't.
You might not want to trust
your camera to someone
who isn't steady.
This one is the worst of all.
If the sun is shining brightly and directly at your camera,
chances are you will have glare.
It goes something like this...
The glare in this picture--
the bleached circle at the top--
is pretty bad but...
...the glare in this picture
drowns out almost everything.
Be sure that you do not open up the camera
unless the film is completely rewound.
Notice the discolorations
in these photos.
Worse,
the top of this picture
has been blasted away.
Worst of all...
Photographs will usually come out looking smaller later on than they do when you are taking them.
If you do not have a zoom lens when you are trying to take a picture of something pretty far away, you may get pictures like this...
Forget looking for Waldo.
Where's the bear in this photo?
The tiny white blob in the middle of the picture is a grizzly bear.
It looked close at the time.
(And the solution to the problem is not to get closer to the bear!)
This one got more of the inside
of the bus than the bear.
Who knew so many seals
would look so small?
Overexposure
For cameras where you control the settings yourself,
it is possible to let in too much light. Then the pictures come out bleached.
You almost can't see the
white mountains in the back
because the picture is too light.
The biggest mountain in North
America is in the background--
hard to tell, though.
Underexposure 
A flash might have helped
for this one...
Believe it or not,
this was during the day.
And, finally...Aiming
The power lines do not
make this a better picture.
Nothing more needs to be said
about this one!
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