Post your 'cringe-worthy' photo here

[ricktas]

Just for a bit of fun. We all have them. You know the photos, you was just learning how to boost saturation in Photoshop, or perhaps you were put onto how to do skin smoothing on your portraits and you went to town. At the time you thought it was stunning, but now you look back through your archives and think 'what the hell was I thinking"?

So this thread is for you to post that photo, and get feedback on it (not to serious though). So c'mon, show us your best 'cringe worthy' efforts. Don't be shy.

I will start it off with a seascape that I took way back in 2006 and as I had just taken up Photoshop, I was in heaven learning how to do all sorts of things with the menu. Well this is the result of an over-enthusiastic use of saturation. It must have been during my blue period...hahaha. Enjoy!.. and show me yours!

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[Mark L]

I haven't got to many 'cringe-worthy' photos left. It took me a while, but I found out how to delete.
Anyway, they're not all gone. I was excited with my first DSLR and I like birds.

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[Dylan & Marianne]

Back when I thought that putting everythign through photomatix was the cool thing to do, I came up with such monstrosities such as this :P

[ricktas]

Loving them so far. Thanks Mark and Dylan for getting on board. I thought it could be good for our newer members to see that everyone of us started somewhere and we have all done the extreme processing along the way.

[Duane Pipe]

Mine is about the composition and not the processing. I actually thought I was taking good shots at the time
Now wheres that delete key Mark

[Rattus79]

Ok, I'll play.


Brisbane Floods 2009 - Oxley Golf Course by rattus1979, on Flickr

I think I may have overcooked this HDR a little bit.

[Ionica]

Poorly taken, opportunity lost.

[MattNQ]

Oh I have soooo many to choose from

Over-saturation + trying to stitch wide angle shots = extraordinarily hideous

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Note to self....If you have taken sunrise shots that morning on full manual........CHECK YOUR $%@$# SETTINGS before chasing emus down the road at midday

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[Bennymiata]

I thought, at the time, that star filters looked really cool.



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[William]

These are definatley cringe worthy taken around 2005/2006 with my fuji S9500, Early attempt at a sunrise and Seascape

CC away all you want




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[Duane Pipe]

Absolute Crap photos guys Its good to get that out after all the positive feed back we receive and give

[William]

No ones going to argue with you Dave on your CC

[Ms Monny]

ha ha ha! This is fantastic!! Great to see that even the best of us started out with shockers!! Oh, the joys of learning PS!

I am actually going through my old photos (trying to get some sort of organisation happening).....mine are not years old though....we are only talking a year or two!

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Where's the head??

As I am still doing some shockers with PS, I thought I would share a family pic instead....minus a head!

[Kaktus]

here is my contribution, had no ideo about pp then, still don't have much now

[Ezookiel]

I am VERY familiar with the delete key - perhaps TOO familiar (I've not only deleted nearly all my worst shots, I've even deleted the RAW files of shots that with my now improved PP skills, could potentially have been made keepable), so as a result I'm not sure what I have left to post up here, but I can guarantee I can find something to add ... is there a limit to the number? ... I could probably just about flood this thread even after the heavy use of the delete key.

[xxdrakexx]

i gess ill have a go lol i think i was in my really dark stage lol

[ricktas]

Loving it!

Some great shots there everyone. Brings us all a bit down to earth and shows that even the very best photographers can take some doosies at times.

Looking forward to seeing more.

[Mark L]

Note to self....If you have taken sunrise shots that morning on full manual........CHECK YOUR $%@$# SETTINGS before chasing emus down the road at midday

Here's another taken less than two weeks ago.

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[Duane Pipe]

I like the first two in your set Bill. I would have been wrapped with them too mate

[AdamR]

I know I have some shockers, but interestingly, I think Ive lost a lot of black and white ability since then. Some of my old ones were fantastic.... My new ones.... not so sure.