Whats your photographic pet peeves?

[OwenStegemann]

These days photography is about computers as much as it was before computers -- not at all.

The photographic workflow is so reliant on computers these days might be more accurate, at least in regards to shooting color. I know one COULD work in color only in the wet darkroom, but that is becoming incredibly difficult these days.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Chimping.
or in the post production presentation part: HDR

Phil Forrest

 

[aeturnum]

I usually respond by saying that it only shows that I know how to spend money -- and THAT I'm really really good at!

I like that a lot.

I used to have a lot of pet peeves (brand wars, film v.s. digital, etc), but it's all so tiring. These days I'm happy to take my pictures and let others take theirs. I still haven't worked out how to talk to people who have widely different ideas about "good photos" though. 🙂

 

[bbrovold]

Pet peeve is pre-sets: Velvia, Agfapan, etc.
I love digital but if you want it to look like film, SHOOT FILM.

 

[Richard C]

People who claim that one particular make of camera is the best in the world although they have never owned or used any other make themselves.

People who ask you to compare two different lenses on the basis of pictures of two completely different subjects.

People who think that if you take a photograph with a person under the age of sixteen somewhere in it even though they are fully clothed then you must be a paedophile.

 

[David R Munson]

Threads like this. Time spent complaining is better spent photographing.

 

[Paul Luscher]

The overuse of the phrase "decisive moment".

I plead guilty as charged, even though I'm no HCB. OK, I'll stop using it from now on...

 

[kshapero]

I always take my watch when I shoot. I have no idea why but I do. As soon as I am done I put the watch back on. Go figure. And don't try to talk me out of it, either.

 

[x-ray]

People that think they're better because they own a (Leica, Nikon, Canon, etc.) than those that owna a (leica, Nikon, Canon, etc.).

Those that think their camera whatever brand makes them a better photographer.

Thos that own a film or digital camera, pick the brand, and that makes you a photographer.

Those that define their life in terms of their camera. It's a religion to them.

My lens is sharper than your lens. My camera is better than your camera. My camera has a better dynamic range than yours. I need 14 stops DR or it's a no deal.

Set the motor on high speed and hold the button down and fill a 512 gig card. Now let's see if we can find a frame to fix in photoshop. Don't you think I make great photographs.

That's a start.

 

[x-ray]

Forgot, when on jobs, those that try to impress you with the camera they have. Who cares.

Clients, spectators, models that mess with your camera. the pick it up or want to look through it or change settings on my camera. I had one person actually change the flash sync on my Hasselblad lens from X to M. I was using studio strobes and it took me a minute to figure out what they had done.

People that are involved in the shoot that bring their young kids and let them run wild. I had one recently that let her twin 5 year old boys run back and forth on the board room table and jump from the table into the chairs. She never told them to stop. Then they decided to run under my tripod for a while with my Hasselblad digital camera on it.

I could go on for days.

 

[johnwood]

People who set up their rig smack-dab within my (already composed) shot, assuming - incorrectly - that "it's cool" as I'll just photoshop them out. After the sun sets, I make sure to bump into the shooter and remind them to please ask next time they open a tripod in front of someone who was there earlier...and that the shot I was waiting patiently to take was ruined.

 

[Jack Conrad]

Saying that we photographers "take" photo's. 😡

This is just wrong.

How come an artist "makes" an image, but a photographer "takes" a photo?

It's just wrong... and I resent it. It's about time the English language authorities rectify this huge and unforgivable linguistic travesty once and for all.

Photographers are not thieves going around "taking" other peoples images. That's just a cruel and derogatory thing to say.

How many times must we be accused of "taking" photos? 🙁

I'm not "taking" anything. I'm "giving." I'm creating.
I'm "sharing" I'm "seeing" and "observing" and yes, "making" photographs.

Musicians are said to "play" music and nobody gets all bent out of shape accusing them of "taking" sound vibrations, now do they?

Well, photographers don't "take" light waves either.

Why aren't we "playing" our camera's and creating beautiful light images. eh? :angel:

I say it's a low form of prejudice perpetrated on photographers.

I'm thinking financial reparations are in order for all the heartache inflicted upon photographers everywhere.

Perhaps a class action lawsuit? 🙂

I suggest we begin by demanding a FREE Leica M10 and a nice Summilux lens for all of us. 🙄

 

[J450N]

that i am doing photography, and don't know really why.

Sometimes that can be a good sign. 🙂

really?

It depends on what you meant by not knowing why. If you feel like something is natural and routine, or just a dip, or a little off, it will probably pass. For me, everything is cyclical... interests, energy, creativity, motivation, etc. On the other hand, if the little voice inside you is actually yelling "GET OUT!" then perhaps it is time to evaluate it things are on the right track.

OT: My pet peeves are the dips in the cycles I mentioned above but they are usually opportunities to get back to something else.

 

[J450N]

- photographs of streets in flickr "street photography" groups.

- when a person buys an M9 and later gives it a one star review because it doesn't have autofocus or zoom like their point and shoot.

 

[fotomeow]

People visiting a museum in order to photograph the paintings

+1. While they take pics of irreplaceable paintings with the flash on (which damages the painting after multiple flash shots),
despite seeing a hundred signs in the museum stating, "NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY". D-bags.

 

[fotomeow]

Celebrities who push their own "photography" on the masses, abusing their upper class status to substantiate their "work", despite having no real sense of image-making.
OR
an old roommate who bought an automatic pro nikon film camera, and only uses the all-auto features to take pics, then send the negs to have someone else to develop and make expensive blown up prints that he has no real knowledge of, yet is firm in his conviction that he is a "photographer".

 

[jwc57]

-Weird knit caps for newborns.
-A photographer's website that says they have a special "eye" and a "unique" style...and every other shot is a couple on railroad tracks, standing in the middle of the road, etc. Did everyone go to the same class and/or seminar? (Thinking about it, they pretty much did.)
-Photographers whose website blog says they are "stoked" about a photo session with a client. It doesn't impress anyone when you say the same thing about every client. Of course later we learn that they were a "special" client and the session was either "awesome" or "killer", and if they were super special, it was an "awesomely killer" session.
-Describing a photo as "awesome"....especially an overly done HDR.
-People telling me they have a better photo of something...because theirs is in color (yet, it is almost always blurry and overexposed, but it is in color.)
-People telling me I need to dump my prime lenses and get a 70-200mm 2.8L because it's the sharpest lens Canon makes, and it's white, so people will know I'm a professional.


(I guess my biggest pet peeve is anyone using the word "awesome".)

 

[bugmenot]

-People telling me I need to dump my prime lenses and get a 70-200mm 2.8L because it's the sharpest lens Canon makes, and it's white, so people will know I'm a professional.

I don't know about dumping your prime lenses, but the 70-200 f2.8 L mkII is probably Canon's best lens 😀

 

[Richard G]

I always take my watch when I shoot. I have no idea why but I do. As soon as I am done I put the watch back on. Go figure. And don't try to talk me out of it, either.

There'll be a reason. A very fastidious friend of ours caught his wrist chain on the door-closing jaws of the microwave door, spilling both drinks he was removing. We have never forgotten it. It was like a rent in the fabric of the universe. A chunky watch could catch on a strap and tip over a camera on a tripod.

 

[Texsport]

People who take all of this too seriously and let things bother them.

Ditto that!

Texsport