Be careful before you delete a so-so photo – might be a surprise – care to contribute

I’m sure like most DSLR users; we take too many pictures and really don’t have time to review them all. Last weekend, I was visiting with my brothers and decided to take a ride into the woods. I went to take pictures of a field of flowers that my brother said was amazing a few weeks ago when he was there. Well, as spring flowers go, they were all gone so we just went blazing through the woods. As we were on a trial, my one brother spotted a deer off in the distance. Armed with my 70-200 + 1.4 extender, I grabbed three shots and then thought I could go out of the vehicle for a better angle.
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You b@*@**d. You shot Bambi's mother and then for good measure you blew her up!

lol

Dan Marchant wrote in post #16000957
You b@*@**d. You shot Bambi's mother and then for good measure you blew her up!

You ought to do the New York comedy club circuit with that wit.

Holy crap Dan...I just spit coffe all over my desk!...that was friggin' hilarious!

woodzy wrote in post #15998011
...So the moral of the story is to make sure you look around at your pictures as there might be a diamond in the rough. These could have landed on the "darkroom floor" the little photographer on my shoulder must have wispered something in my ear. I’m sure this has happened to others so I would like to see who else might have experienced this. Please contribute to your before and after pictures.

That is a neat find among your own shots.

I don't recall ever having done anything similar. Or maybe I've tossed some diamonds in the rough without ever knowing it. Anyway, that's a good lesson.

I've caught stuff after the fact, that I didn't realize I was taking a picture of. Nothing nearly as spectacular as this though.

Good catch.

Very nice. Nice capture.

Dan - I'm charging you for a new monitor. My old one isn't working after having coffee sprayed al over it!

Back to the OP, sometimes it is only the second or third time you look at a sot that you realise there is merit to it because your eyes have found something different. One reason I don't throw images out until I have had a good chance to "look" at them properly

woodzy wrote in post #15998011
Please contribute to your before and after pictures.

Not nearly as interesting as Woodzy's discovery, but amongst a number of similar shots of the moon, I happened upon this:

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woodzy wrote in post #15998011
..Please contribute to your before and after pictures.

Not quite a before and after, but a discovery none the less. My plan was to shoot a dandelion but the shot was rather plain so I decided to pluck a few of the seeds. Zooming in I saw movement so i kept zooming in.

First shot.

I nearly canned this shot when culling at thumbnail level:

I started to delete this single exposure from many that I was stacking because I thought it was a satellite streaking through. Turned out to be a meteor.

This is one from a series of three. I shot in raw this day, and was aiming at some airplanes that were parked on the tarmac when I heard commotion behind me. The group Red Thunder (based out of Nashville--they fly old communist airplanes as part of their theme) was coming in for a landing after their routine, and some older gentlemen were yelling. The tone sounded ominous, so I turned around and started shooting.

A while later, while looking at images to delete (I was running out of room), I started deleting some very underexposed shots that were so dark that the screen almost looked black.

After deleting two shots I thought, "Oh no!"

I had deleted two of the three from a near crash landing.

Luckily the best one survived and I had to crank the brightness up all the way when processing, and had to max on the noise deletion.

But I got the shot.

Notice the problem? He's descending and forgot to bring down his landing gear. Look at the prop. It's less than a foot from the ground. Had he not immediately pulled up (a team mate called him on the radio to pull up) he would have crashed. I talked to him later and he said it would have ended the show, but likely wouldn't have been a very bad crash.