Horror hit parade

[PaulDalex]

What are the kind of photos you hate most?

Here are my own top ranking horror genres:

1) Close up photos of disgusting bugs

2) Ultra photoshopped landscapes (with un earthy colours)

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Many site keep posting and praising them and (dpreview popphoto)

What photos disgust you the most?

Cheers

Paolo

 

[Sparrow]

.... almost anything to do with that Camera Club aesthetic

 

[Paul Jenkin]

1. Selfies
2. HDR photos (where it's possible to tell / obvious it's been HDR'd)
3. Other people's holiday snaps - unless they've really, really edited them so that they are actually interesting and convey something worthwhile about the place / people, etc.

 

[Pherdinand]

.... almost anything to do with that Camera Club aesthetic

that's pretty vague, unless you assume we all are familiar with camera clubs 😀

 

[Pherdinand]

I can't really name any big category that "i hate".
-I usually don't like images that try too hard to be socially interesting while depict mundane things such as plain people walking on a first-world country street, or shoppin malls...
-I don't like images where there is description added more than just a few words title (though i have a few of these in my own gallery here, lol)
-Kids photos: i rarely see any that are interesting to me when i don't know the person in it
-Sports photos i find kinda boring except those few depicting something strange happening
-Wedding shots are kinda boring, i don't think i've ever seen a nice one so far except the famous royal wedding shot a few years ago from the british court, where the little girl has a bored frowning face 😀

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Walking dead or whatever they called it, head shots. Horribly primitive representation.

 

[Sparrow]

that's pretty vague, unless you assume we all are familiar with camera clubs 😀

LINK ... I take no responsibility for any psychological, or ocular damage

 

[tunalegs]

1: wide angle shots of people walking away from the photographer.
2: Over-staged, over produced "art" like pretty much anything David LaChapelle has made or will ever make. Though it is true it was interesting for about five minutes - several decades ago...
3: Fashion photography that consists of posing a model in front of their own shadow on a white wall. This wasn't even interesting for five minutes - ever.
4: Babies dressed as animals.

 

[daveleo]

Candid (sneaky? cheap?) street shots of ladies butts.
Street shots of people who very obviously don't want to be photographed.
Friends' totally unedited vacation snapshots (15 shots of essenially the same scene, then another 15 shots of essentially another same scene, etc etc).
Friends' sunset/sunrise pictures.
Baby pictures.
Kids pictures where they are dressed like big people or 😱 little angels.

Though, depending on my mood of the day, I pretty much enjoy all styles from classic to funky to HDR to abstract etc etc etc.

 

[D.O'K.]

In no particular order:

1. slow exposure "cotton wool effect" water;
2. as above with any kind of jetty/walkway/line of posts etc receding into it;
3. as per 2 even if the water isn't as per 1;
4. all infrared photography;
5. almost all HRD photography;
6. all pictures of the photographer's meals and/or drinks taken in restaurants;
7. Etc Etc...

Regards,
D.

 

[tunalegs]

Oh yes, had to add: any street photography involving asia. I don't know why but it seem that shoeless street vendors on sidewalks and people sleeping everywhere is the only thing happening over there.
That, or bad photographers can't seem to show snything else from there.

That's only what foreigners visiting Asia take pictures of. Look at any photos taken by Asians of Asia - on say flickr (where for some reason everybody seems to be from Asia), very different story. 🙂

 

[Retrotech68]

That's only what foreigners visiting Asia take pictures of. Look at any photos taken by Asians of Asia - on say flickr (where for some reason everybody seems to be from Asia), very different story. 🙂

Very true!

 

[Pherdinand]

ah yes there's one i really dislike: Self portraits of the photographer with the camera, reflecting in some shop's window.
Yes that includes Vivian Maier's shots.

 

[back alley]

'disgust' is a very strong word...i rarely find an image that disgusts me...though i find it easy to be disgusted by some arrogant photographer's comments...

i don't like looking at images of dead animals...

 

[Pherdinand]

LINK ... I take no responsibility for any psychological, or ocular damage

ehhehehehe. Their "creative gallery" is the best

 

[Pherdinand]

i don't like looking at images of dead animals...

😉

 

[RichC]

No. 1 for me: what Sparrow called the "camera club aesthetic" - I knew exactly what he meant the instant I saw this phrase!

No. 2: so-called "street photography" - most is dismal and utterly pointless (at least for the viewer). For clues on how it should be done, see Tony Ray-Jones, Martin Parr, and many Magnum photographers).

 

[back alley]

what is worse?
pics of cats, flowers or street scenes?

 

[Pherdinand]

dead cat in the flowers on a street 😛

 

[FrankS]

Cats, flowers, sunsets, autumn foliage