Whats your photographic pet peeves?

Beginning photographers slamming giant "John Doe Photography" watermarks onto their pictures so that "people won't steal them".
 
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:
 
'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.
 
I have an expensive camera and take ok pictures please enjoy my photographic workshop costing approximately 1 billion dollars.
 
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.
 
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. :D
 
Oversaturated landscapes
Instagram old timey effects
DSLR "rigs"
Not knowing if Portra will be around in 5 years
 
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.
 
gavinlg said:
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
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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.
 
Pablito said:
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.
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In that instance I'd imagine the assailant would be better armed and have already made their move.
 
-doomed- said:
In that instance I'd imagine the assailant would be better armed and have already made their move.
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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.
 
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