{"id":5041,"date":"2018-10-30T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:13:18","slug":"results-shittycamerachallenge-october-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"Results, #ShittyCameraChallenge, October Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in June<\/a>, I was excited to post my results in the first Shitty Camera Challenge.\u00a0 At the time, the results were completely appropriate for the camera I used at the time, and I still lie awake at night wondering how my life would have been different, had I been selected (at random) as that contest’s winner, making me the proud owner of a vinyl copy of Chicago’s first album.<\/p>\n

I’ve managed o work through the trauma and the self blame, and have taken all of that guilt and remorse and squeezed it into a tiny ball and tucked it away in the recesses of my large intestine.\u00a0 Appropriate, given the name of the contest.\u00a0 I’ve turned over a new leaf, because it’s October, and a new challenge has unfolded on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I searched far and wide for the camera to be used in this month’s challenge, and I came up with this wonderful plastic Samyang no-name camera that comes with tele and wide options, auto focus, and a built in automatic flash that still works.<\/p>\n

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It came to me with a roll of film already inside – maybe 5 or so exposures already taken.\u00a0 I happily went off and snapped the rest of the roll, developed it in my kitchen sink, and was surprised to see that all of the photos were completely identical:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Given my past performance in this event, my fragile self-esteem was already shattered, and I would have given up at this point, but I had already started a new roll by the time I realized the extent of my failure.\u00a0 It took the rest of the month for my noticeably less enthusiastic self to complete that roll, and when I hit the “rewind” button on the camera, it made a grinding sound, but nothing else.\u00a0 The battery was OK (the flash still worked) but I had to pull the film out of the camera in the dark, using some force.\u00a0 A metal pin, which may have been the cause or the result of my problems, came tumbling out with the film.<\/p>\n

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When I unrolled the film from the developing spool, my worst fears were confirmed when I didn’t see any pictures on the film.<\/p>\n

But then I looked closer, and I could see faint shapes and shadows when I held the film in front of a lamp, and so I decided to run it through the scanner after all.\u00a0 And to my surprise I learned that I had a full roll of horribly underexposed photos.\u00a0 A bit of enhancement in Lightroom to see the images and it seemed that about halfway through, something happened which caused all of the photos to have long scratches\/scrapes horizontally.\u00a0 All perfectly legal and appropriate for this type of contest.\u00a0 Here are some of my favorites.\u00a0 \u00a0The first three are from the island of Anjouan, in the Comoros; the rest are in and around Antananarivo, Madagascar.<\/p>\n

Did I win?<\/p>\n

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Back in June, I was excited to post my results in the first Shitty Camera Challenge.\u00a0 At the time, the results were completely appropriate for the camera I used at the time, and I still lie awake at night wondering how my life would have been different, had I been selected (at random) as that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1106],"tags":[2013,2008,96,123,12,124,802,2014],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-contest","tag-shittycamerachallenge","tag-shittycamera","tag-camera","tag-cheap","tag-contest","tag-inexpensive","tag-plastic","tag-shitty"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}