Many years ago my cousin was a photographer for the air force, and later went into commercial photography for a while and made some movies, mostly documentary. He had a wall of photos in one of his studios, all of which were mistakes - inadvertent shutter releases, poor exposures, movement of the camera ... some of the mistakes were great photos in and of themselves, and others were kept to be used for "ideas," where a mistake would lead to some interesting process or subject. I remember a couple of his mistakes which gave me ideas for images and got me to experimenting with some new darkroom techniques.
A coup0le of years ago I had a very odd experience. The first two frames on a roll of film were double exposures, an odd enough situation, but stranger still the frames contained an image of a snow covered mountain and a very attractive woman. I haven't the foggiest idea how those images appeared on the film. There are no snow covered mountains in San Francisco. Maybe I ended up snapping a couple of pics of a sign or advertising poster, or some such thing .... <LOL> Shel > [Original Message] > From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If in doubt I don't delete, and even then I probably delete only 1 or 2 > shots per hundred - and never on the rear LCD, unless the shutter is > inadvertently pressed by accident. Even then you can get some interesting > results - a random shutter fired by a bump to the camera: who took the > picture? What is it of? Love it.
