Controversial Topic: What irks you about other photographers?

Phil Young said:
Yeah, stay away from wedding images lol
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I would love to but when it gets a little volatile, in there, the bat signal RTM button glows a tad red and I / we have to go for a look-see :p

DaveS2 said:
That's interesting to hear you say that Kev, because before I came here, I was warned that TP can be a bit of a 'bear pit', and quite vitriolic at times, and I have seen some evidence of this albeit not to the extent that I was led to believe.
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Some members / forums do get a little fractious sometimes, I agree,
on balance, it tends to be a Friday night phenomenon ;)

On the other hand some people can also be a little "precious"
As you say, its part and parcel of the anonymity of what is 'Tinternet.

BTW my name is Chris and I'm an alcoholic
b****r! wrong forum! yet again!
:p
 
TonyHall said:
I've been a....................... 'my' photographer (reporters use this little gem)
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You need to take action to stop that happening. Charlie Watts once hung Mick Jagger out of a hotel window for daring to refer to him as 'my drummer'.


Steve.
 
ghoti said:
People who stick in an extraneous apostrophe when pluralising "photo" like this: photo's.

Then they justify it by saying that "photo's" is a contraction of "photographs". It's not. It's the plural of "photo", which is an abbreviation and abbreviations behave like words in their own right. You don't write photo', do you? So can this bloody "photo's" nonsense. Stop hypercorrecting your English.

They probably do it with other abbreviations too. But I see it a lot with the word "photos" on photography forums.
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Fantastic. Someone who is as pedantic as I am!


Steve.
 
People who think membership of the local camera club is a qualification which means they are the fount of all knowledge about photography.
 
Can't say I have ever thought about it.
I don't dislike any one for being a photographer. Or for being some other way weird.
But Just as many Photographers pi$$ me off, as do non photographers.
 
Photographers who buy fancy lights, not realising that there's a free one built into the camera.
 
Jin said:
5) Subject enthusiasts that think they are photographers - So these are people who are passionate about a certain subject and because they take photos of these subjects they believe they are photographers.

This is common amongst motorsports, train and plane spotters, bird watchers and bug enthusiasts.

They get so excited about seeing the subject of their interest that all concern for technique and creativity goes out the window. Every photo is the same photo with minor differences. EG Bird on branch, another bird on branch, car driving with other cars driving, train at platform, another train at platform. Their photos are generally boring and only other subject enthusiasts would find it interesting.
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What do you have to do to call yourself a photographer?

Anyway, my irk is more at me ratherthan the ones that cause the irk.
Photographers that I enjoy meets with who then post a shot I missed and didn't even see even though I was stood right next to them!
 
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My final irk is people who manage to introduce good car, bad car analogies into the conversation. As one who has no interest in, or little knowledge of these machines, I think I've worked out that the good car is (in Canon world) the 1D mkiii and the bad car is a Rebel of any description. I have the 7d down as a nippy wee sports job.
Maybe I should be thankful that the forum has improved my knowledge of the motor vehicle from zero to miniscule, but despite this, I'll continue to catch the train thanks.
 
RBaker said:
Maybe I should be thankful that the forum has improved my knowledge of the motor vehicle from zero to miniscule, but despite this, I'll continue to catch the train thanks.
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PMSL fair point well presented ;)
 
RBaker said:
Photographers who buy cameras so cheap that they don't even get the free light.
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:D

I had a woman publicly call me out in the middle of a packed crowd at a dance performance once because she was adamant I was setting off my flash which was spoiling her enjoyment of the show... I had great pleasure demonstrating to her that my 5d3 actually had no flash at all
 
RBaker said:
Photographers who buy cameras so cheap that they don't even get the free light.
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I knew that spending £2329 on a camera body was going too cheap.

Ah well, we live and learn.

Maybe next time I'll get one with a light on it. :)

Dave
 
DaveS2 said:
I knew that spending £2329 on a camera body was going too cheap.
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....I think it was Dolly Parton who said: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!"
 
RedRobin said:
....I think it was Dolly Parton who said: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!"
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My favourite Dolly Parton quote:

Interviewer: "What do you think when people describe you as a dumb blonde?"

Dolly Parton: "Oh, I don't care. I know I'm not dumb... I also know I'm not blonde!"


Steve.
 
RedRobin said:
....I think it was Dolly Parton who said: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!"
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My favourite Dolly Parton quote:

Interviewer: "What do you think about people who describe you as a dumb blonde?"

Dolly Parton: "Oh, I don't care. I know I'm not dumb... I also know I'm not blonde!"


Steve.
 
I get 'irked' by people posting questions who then criticise people who try to advise them. This is especially so when the post is from someone who is new to photography, (or maybe just a cretin), and the sensible advice is from an experienced, often professional, photographer of some standing in the industry. My main concern is that such reactions may mean the rest of us lose out on their valued contributions.
I also get 'irked' and saddened by people who post with such bad spelling and grammar that their post is rendered meaningless.
 
BBR said:
I get 'irked' by people posting questions who then criticise people who try to advise them. This is especially so when the post is from someone who is new to photography, (or maybe just a cretin), and the sensible advice is from an experienced, often professional, photographer of some standing in the industry. My main concern is that such reactions may mean the rest of us lose out on their valued contributions.
I also get 'irked' and saddened by people who post with such bad spelling and grammar that their post is rendered meaningless.
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Particularly concerning lighting?
 
Until I visited Myanmar (Burma), very little.

My dislike can probably be summed up as the behaviour of other tourist /travel photographers towards the locals.

Myanmar is an amazing place and having just opened its doors to tourism the locals are still very friendly towards foreigners. They really are the nicest people I've ever met.

Unfortunately the behaviour of some photographers here is atrocious.

I'll give a handful of examples..

While visiting the holiest Pagoda in Yangon a lady was walking around with a wide angle zoom. A Burmese Pilgrim was lost in prayer in front of the main stupa. The lady proceeded to wander over, put the wide angle zoom centimetres from her face, then snap away for a couple of minutes. Looking around a few other toggers were showing the same amount of disregard. After all, this is all just set up for them, right? That's why the Pagoda was built hundreds of years ago, so package photographers could get 'that shot'.

At the same Pagoda a man was lighting candles, in broken Burmese I asked him if I could take his photo (it's one of the first things I learn when visiting a new country on our year tour). I popped in the 75mm, positioned myself a little way away, but could only rattle off a couple of frames before 10 other toggers spotted the 'photo op' and barged in my life of sight...

We left the Pagoda pretty quickly that day.

Yesterday while on U Bein Bridge a couple of monks stopped us to practice English. We were invited back to their Monastery for a look around. What we didn't know is the monastery is Burma 2nd largest, oh and the monks eating lunch has been changed into a monkey show for tourist toggers. Around 500 photographers showed up barging around for the best shot, not taking off their shoes, and showing zero respect for the monks. Really sad to see. Imagine a celebrity surrounded by paparazzi then ask how you would feel if that to you every day in the work canteen...

I could go on but maybe you get the drift.
If your a travel photographer then please don't be an asshole, respect the locals and ask permission. Where you can't ask for permission then be as unobtrusive as possible.

Personally I thought an influx of Gap Yah kids would kill Burma, now I think it's the toggers!
 
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@jojo90 Sadly I think that has little to do with photography and more to do with outright human stupidity and ignorance. You can guarantee they'll be stupid and ignorant in other aspects of life, not just when they have a camera in hand. :(
 
jojo90 said:
Until I visited Myanmar (Burma), very little.

My dislike can probably be summed up as the behaviour of other tourist /travel photographers towards the locals.

Myanmar is an amazing place and having just opened its doors to tourism the locals are still very friendly towards foreigners. They really are the nicest people I've ever met.

Unfortunately the behaviour of some photographers here is atrocious.

I'll give a handful of examples..

While visiting the holiest Pagoda in Yangon a lady was walking around with a wide angle zoom. A Burmese Pilgrim was lost in prayer in front of the main stupa. The lady proceeded to wander over, put the wide angle zoom centimetres from her face, then snap away for a couple of minutes. Looking around a few other toggers were showing the same amount of disregard. After all, this is all just set up for them, right? That's why the Pagoda was built hundreds of years ago, so package photographers could get 'that shot'.

At the same Pagoda a man was lighting candles, in broken Burmese I asked him if I could take his photo (it's one of the first things I learn when visiting a new country on our year tour). I popped in the 75mm, positioned myself a little way away, but could only rattle off a couple of frames before 10 other toggers spotted the 'photo op' and barged in my life of sight...

We left the Pagoda pretty quickly that day.

Yesterday while on U Bein Bridge a couple of monks stopped us to practice English. We were invited back to their Monastery for a look around. What we didn't know is the monastery is Burma 2nd largest, oh and the monks eating lunch has been changed into a monkey show for tourist toggers. Around 500 photographers showed up barging around for the best shot, not taking off their shoes, and showing zero respect for the monks. Really sad to see. Imagine a celebrity surrounded by paparazzi then ask how you would feel if that to you every day in the work canteen...

I could go on but maybe you get the drift.
If your a travel photographer then please don't be an asshole, respect the locals and ask permission. Where you can't ask for permission then be as unobtrusive as possible.

Personally I thought an influx of Gap Yah kids would kill Burma, now I think it's the toggers!
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Venice Carnival will be just like that - scrum of photographers. You also need to deal with iPads too
 
welshwizard645 said:
People who judge your photos negatively, yet never show you theirs. I KNOW MY PHOTOS ARE CARP
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To be honest I don't see how that matters, by the same token surely if they say your photo is wonderful you want to see there photos to know if that have the ability to know a good photo?
 
Actually one that has really started to annoy me, people to whom the kit seems to be of greater importance that the art of taking photos, and inherently as part of it kit snobbery, I remember a thread where someone was asking for advice on a simple travel camera, and the advice offered was to look at a 1D3-1DX :eek: :bang:
 
MWHCVT said:
Actually one that has really started to annoy me, people to whom the kit seems to be of greater importance that the art of taking photos, and inherently as part of it kit snobbery, I remember a thread where someone was asking for advice on a simple travel camera, and the advice offered was to look at a 1D3-1DX :eek: :banghead:
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That used to annoy me, now I can just laugh at the silliness of it. There are gear snobs everywhere, you should see some of the people in music! They're just the same.

When someone who calls themselves a 'sound engineer' spends more time talking about gear than they do music it says a lot to me. When 'photographers' spend more time obsessing over gear than they do actually taking photos it says similar things. :)
 
cant stand rude photographers, you know the ones, your there taking a picture and they roll up and stand in front of you thinking they are david bailey, yeah ok mate!
 
steveraw said:
lol I will be more alert while holding the camera now also would love to have a pic of how you hold it ;)
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Took me a while but found one:

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