Whats your photographic pet peeves?

[jippiejee]

Beginning photographers slamming giant "John Doe Photography" watermarks onto their pictures so that "people won't steal them".

 

[Keith]

People who sell me a camera that is working perfectly by their own description and when I get it I discover that their idea of perfect and mine are a little different! :bang:

 

[Thardy]

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

I bet the 2.8 version is at least a whole stop more awesome than my 70-200 f/4!

 

[djcphoto]

'Rig', as in 'my street rig', 'my sports rig', etc.

Oh, and photographers vests. And camera bags/straps that cost more than the camera.

And other stuff.

 

[JayM]

I have an expensive camera and take ok pictures please enjoy my photographic workshop costing approximately 1 billion dollars.

 

[J450N]

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

I'll take "awesome" over "sick" any day. 😀

 

[Rico]

My pet peeve is short-throw focus. It squashes the DOF scale into uselessness. If you're in that kind of hurry, manual focus isn't the right technology: try one of those modern DSLRs.

 

[Kingsfan]

I'll take "awesome" over "sick" any day. 😀

i'll take "awesome" and "sick" over "hella awesome" and "hella sick" any day

 

[bugmenot]

I bet the 2.8 version is at least a whole stop more awesome than my 70-200 f/4!

Haha! 😀 To be honest though, the newest f/4 version is just as sharp and well constructed. Perhaps even better!

 

[John E Earley]

My pet peeve is about whatever is causing all my photos to turn out so bad 😀

 

[redisburning]

posting a photo of some ridiculously tiny size where I can't see anything.

seriously, this is 2012, not 1998 =(

 

[Spavinaw]

My pet peeve is people who refer to snapshots as snapcaptures so as to bug folks that object to snaps, shots, and captures all at the same time. 😀

 

[Cold]

My pet peeve is people who refer to snapshots as snapcaptures so as to bug folks that object to snaps, shots, and captures all at the same time. 😀

Snaptures? 😛

 

[mrisney]

Oversaturated landscapes
Instagram old timey effects
DSLR "rigs"
Not knowing if Portra will be around in 5 years

 

[stillshunter]

"International Street Photographer"

Hear, hear! Well said!!!

Him and that self-promoter "Mr 85mm" who accosts us all, like Hari Krishna on the corner, with rubbish free 'teach you street' e-books. :bang:

 

[Pablito]

This is not a photographic pet peeve, but rather a gripe about an attitude that occasionally prevails when certain folks talk about photographing is areas they perceive as "dangerous." The conversation becomes really objectionable, at least to me, when these folks start to talk about how their particularly solid, heavy metal camera (usually the "N" or the "L" brand) would be a great weapon for bashing in the head of some individual they find threatening.

 

[tmfabian]

People who go to an event, or on holiday, and live the experience through the screen of their iPhone or iPad, instead of just enjoying whateverthehellitis they're doing there in the first place

THIS!!! hands down...believe it or not...every now and then, setting down the camera is a good thing. Doing something fun ALWAYS wins over taking a picture of someone else doing something fun.

 

[-doomed-]

This is not a photographic pet peeve, but rather a gripe about an attitude that occasionally prevails when certain folks talk about photographing is areas they perceive as "dangerous." The conversation becomes really objectionable, at least to me, when these folks start to talk about how their particularly solid, heavy metal camera (usually the "N" or the "L" brand) would be a great weapon for bashing in the head of some individual they find threatening.

In that instance I'd imagine the assailant would be better armed and have already made their move.

 

[Pablito]

In that instance I'd imagine the assailant would be better armed and have already made their move.

Well, I don't know what to imagine. What I find objectionable is folks who talk about doing this (and how their oh-so-robust camera would survive) as though it were some sort of cool macho thing. This comes up in virtually ever thread about photographing in "dicey" areas.

 

[jody36]

That owning a leica is all that counts.