Objects that intrude in your photography

[rpsawin]

In no particular order:

Security Fences
Power Lines
Telephone Poles
Parked Cars

Bob

 

[gns]

Predictability... that's the worst intruder.

No matter how well you think you know what you've got, things crawl in. It's just the nature of the medium. The way the camera gathers everything in its view equally- that's one of its more unique and seductive traits. I think you just have to accept and embrace that, and the fact that there is an element of chance involved.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[TheHub]

power lines (they're a nightmare in Japan)
reflections on glass
cars
concrete
signs
people

 

[Sparrow]

And we will have the paperless office ... won't we?

Yep…….. we’ll be burning the wood to power our stream cars

 

[shadowfox]

Personally, I hate telephone poles and power lines, it seems like I can't escape them, I can shoot a whole roll and every shot will have a telephone pole in it. Does anybody else have something like that happen to them?

Naah, they are friendly creatures, leaning in to see what you're capturing

 

[Athos6]

Its nice to come back and see a nice long thread. Yeah I do have to just live with 'em, work with 'em, or cut them down with a chainsaw. I don't mind cars, and I look for motorcycles. Having just got back into Rangefinders I'll have to look forward to thumbs, straps, feet, and lens caps.

 

[wray]

Sometimes I don't mind objects intruding into the frame ...

What bugs me the most is people walking around with the ubiquitous plastic cup in hand...

Cars in pictures don't bother me much since clothes and hair styles can obviously date photos...

 

[FallisPhoto]

Personally, I hate telephone poles and power lines, it seems like I can't escape them, I can shoot a whole roll and every shot will have a telephone pole in it. Does anybody else have something like that happen to them?

Elderly guys in Hawaiian shirts and shorts. i swear I think they are stalking me.

 

[David Goldfarb]

I just processed some 4x5" film from a recent trip to Hawai'i and was surprised to find the Brooklyn Bridge in a photo of Manana Island (Turtle Island) off the coast of O'ahu. Guess I forgot about that one first time around!

I'm pretty careful these days about not getting the cable release in photos made with wide lenses, but that used to happen occasionally.

 

[bmattock]

Elderly guys in Hawaiian shirts and shorts. i swear I think they are stalking me.

It could be worse, like if they weren't wearing shorts.

 

[chris000]

Sometimes it's difficult to avoid those poles 'n' things - but in the case of Dungeness in Kent (UK) they are part of the overall scene and charm of the place

X-Pan, 45mm, Tri-X

 

[FallisPhoto]

It could be worse, like if they weren't wearing shorts.

That's true. Things can always get worse. Don't give them ideas.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

An ocassional overhead wire can be intrusive in architecture but the worst is the tourest who stands in front of you staring a map.

 

[MartinL]

" What bugs me the most is people walking around with the ubiquitous plastic cup in hand..."

I take lots of pics of people at meetings. so any branded items--Coke, Starbks, etc. call attention away from the subject --- become product placements. I like to get shots of speakers in their context. This can means from the back of the room to identify and show the size of the crowd. The killer here is a bald head in the forground. Way worse with flash:bang:

 

[swoop]

My finger shows up once every 150 shots or so.

 

[Leica All Day]

Hello everybody.....I used to be more conscious of "objects that intruded" into my photos and sometimes I would work around them...Now I find myself trying to use them if they can make my photos more appealing (it doesn't always work)...here are some examples that I think "worked" for me....
India (terrorist attack)

another...(dirty negative)

Pakistan (shortly after the earthquake)2005

cheers, michael

 

[dnp]

Cell phones...

Cell phones...

Not sure if anyone mentioned this one, but recently I've noticed that I used to have a lot more fun shooting in public before every single person on Earth had a cell phone strapped to their cranium The other day I saw a group of nun's congregating outside of the bus depot. It was one of those great decisive moments and then - cell phone plastered to habit for two of them! It offered another decisive moment, but not the one I was hoping for.

Just a fact of modern life I guess - someone should do a series on cell phones or something!

-D

 

[bsdunek]

michaelbialecki, those are good! They convey the confusion of the moment, and the awful heartbreak of lives lost. The clutter adds to the photos in this case.
Too bad our world has to be this way - as Jesus said "Love one another as I have loved you".

 

[Senecabud]

Well, my hair when it's loose and the wind blows it in front of the viewfinder and/or lens. Hate that! :bang:

 

[Pablito]

The stuff I dislike are cars, parked or driving. As I am counting on being huge post mortemly, I don't want my stuff to look dated.

Then I guess you should not photograph any architecure, and while you're at it ask the people to take their clothes off cuz their clothes will date the photos...