Your greatest missed shots.

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I have decided to, if convenient, to always have my camera with me rather than be in that position which I expect many of you have been in before, of missing that great shot.
So what are your greatest missed shots?, that is if errr, apart from an action shot it could be imagined what it would have looked like, if you understand what I mean:thinking:
 
I specifically bought a Canon IXUS 800 IS so that I could take it anywhere and never miss a shot! It's tiny and no bigger than my mobile. It was my main camera from late 2006 until I got my EOS 400D just before Christmas, however I'll still use it when I'm going somewhere that I can't carry my SLR i.e nights out :)

I can't actually think of a shot that I've missed, but I could probably find some I would have hated myself for not getting!
 
:lol:

twice today on a 15 mile stretch of road two bop's one on a tree top " not to high a tree "
and another sat on a road side sign " warning one at that"
about 6 foot off the road and 8 foot high just sat ther while all the cars came past ..

dam if only:bang:

md:thumbs:
 
I see loads of opportunities when out on my bike but not always got my camera or not convenient to stop if in a group.

Here is a missed shot I like, the shutter delay mean't I missed the first rider in the foreground but caught this one, but I like the way it came out anyway because he is right on the line.
 
Driving down a lane in a convertible one summer's days, a stag ran out in front of us. It saw the car and turned..........and ran next to the car, at about the same speed.

The roof was down, my wife was next to me and for about ten seconds the chance was there to get a once-in-a-lifetime stag at full gallop tracking shot.

There was no chance though. Shame, I could have retired on that one photo!
 
I mainly take pictures of my dogs

i have lost count of the number of really cute\great moments I could have captured
 
Ha ha ha! My missed shots run into hundreds!

There was a period of time many years ago when I got too critical - nothing was 'perfect' (This scene is beautiful BUT would be better with../ I could make MORE of those water relections with a 500mm cat/If ONLY.../Bah! Wish I'd loaded Velvia!/ etc, etc) Ended up shooting only about 6 per year!! Sooo many lost opportunities! I take a much more 'Zen' approach now and try to make the most of what I've got and what's in front of me!
 
HIMUPNORTH said:
Back seat of fast jet - twice!:bang::bang::bang:
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:eek: ... How can you live with yourself man!

;):D


Mines, a mega huge full red moon sitting right across the end of my long street.. :(
Just got home, had my camera with me as usual...
popped into the house to get the tripod ...
phone rang ...

Oooh I can't bear to tell you anymore.. :(

:bang::bang:
 
Mine is definitely failing to get a decent shot of Humpback whales whilst in Juneau, Alaska on my honeymoon, they were everywhere too (awesome sight) !!

Owned a prosumer at the time & it convinced me immediately to buy a DSLR - just wish I had done it before I went on the honeymoon !!

simon
 
Not taking a picture of my recent big cat sighting (as reported in out of focus a week or so ago) no one to blame but myself, i had camera, long lens, and it was only 100ft away from me. :bang:

Dean:)
 
Monaco F1 2007, there is a tunnel under the track between the pits and the grandstand. We were returning to our seats in the grandstand from the pits just before the race started and met Lewis hamilton on the stairs with his female escort from McLaren. Camera was packed away in my backpack so all I could say was 'Good Luck'. Gutted!
 
must have been 84-86 ish, went to a single venue rally at the Vauxhall plant on the Wirral, walking around the track and 100 yards away is a car (mk1 astra?) locked up under braking as he was slinging it into the left hander, full left lock and smoke billowing out of the arches, I pulled the SLR up with the 80-210 tamron and focussed, zoomed, focussed, zoomed, that's getting big, shoot . . . and jumped clear as the car hit the no-entry sign just in front of me.

oh sorry, misread the title, thought the thread was "greatest shots that missed you"!
 
mine, (quite lame really) on a trip to cornwall I spotted a buzzard on a lamp post (had never seen one before)

pulled over, keeping an eye on it, got out of the car got my camera out, screwed on the lens, pointed it at the buzzard, which promptly flew off.

swore at myself, and unscrewed the lens, at which point the buzzard again landed on the post.

set camera back up, lifted it slowly to my face and ...yup the buzzard flew off again.

got back in the car (leaving camera set up) and drove off, 3 times on the stretch of road the buzzard flew in front of the car.

I swear the thing was trained to tease camera weilders.
 
I probably couldn't pick one if sat here all day thinking about, so at random I thought of heron shots.

Picks up book of missed heron pics and opens somewhere in the middle, page 142

I was cruising down a heavenly loch one day watching a distant heron working the banks. I had a borrowed 300 f2.8 with a 2x on the camera and I was ready for the fella as soon as he came close enough to get a good frame filling image. The light was perfect, the setting was everything I could have planed to perfection.

I was still keeping an eye on him nearly an hour later as he shadowed the boat to the bay we were anchoring at.

A little reluctantly, I put down the eos, grabbed my medium format bag and jumped into the dingy to go ashore.

As I was sat there on the beach in this little bay, just figuring which way I was going to walk, Mr Heron decided it was time to come in a little closer and see what was going on.

He must have spent a good 5 minutes doing aerobatic practice right there in front of me. Sadly the longest lens I had for the mamiya was a 150 and he'd have been a dot. The 600mm sat on my eos, only yards away on the boat but just out of reach would have bagged me a pic to die for.

I still have not a single good image of a heron. :'(
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The woman I passed last week on the M4, breastfeeding her infant as she drove
 
I miss loads practically every time I go out sailing. You tend to see lots of rays from the sun bursting through the clouds illuminating various parts of the landscape. One of the most interesting too was once on a practically cloudless sky as the sun was setting there was a perfect questionmark cloud formation floating over one of the islands with a beautiful sky ramping from red to blue and the water shimmering from the low lying sun.

But you cant really bring the camera with you then so there isnt much I can do.
 
My missed shot wasnt ever going to be an amazing photo but a missed shot none the less.

We have had a mouse in our house for a few months now, hes quite active, always running around the kitchen, you can hear him scratching and nibbling at stuff.

He's quite a cute little fella so i thought id get a few shots of him, so after seeing him running about the kitchen for an hour or so i went and got my camera, set it up on the tripod and zoomed right into some tasty treats i had left in the middle of the kitchen floor, so there i was, one eye on the telly, the other on the tasty treats, my finger on the remote shutter ready for him to take the bait.

And then i saw him, i needed him to come a little bit closer to be in the frame, before i could do anything, he grabbed some bread and legged it, i havent seen him since!
 
dizzledazzle said:
My missed shot wasnt ever going to be an amazing photo but a missed shot none the less.

We have had a mouse in our house for a few months now, hes quite active, always running around the kitchen, you can hear him scratching and nibbling at stuff.

He's quite a cute little fella so i thought id get a few shots of him, so after seeing him running about the kitchen for an hour or so i went and got my camera, set it up on the tripod and zoomed right into some tasty treats i had left in the middle of the kitchen floor, so there i was, one eye on the telly, the other on the tasty treats, my finger on the remote shutter ready for him to take the bait.

And then i saw him, i needed him to come a little bit closer to be in the frame, before i could do anything, he grabbed some bread and legged it, i havent seen him since!
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Of course you haven't, because he must be camera shy:D
 
Drove home from work this afternoon, on the side of a road was a massive buzzard standing majestically on top of a molehill. Would of been a crackin shot!!
 
They are big birds!, I have 3 that often circle past our house in their search search for carrion, not close enough for a shot though. Odd that they come as a trio though.
 
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