Your photography pet hates

specialman said:
*Wonky horizons that should be corrected. It's okay to shoot skewed but when it's 0.5˚ out the chances are you didn't get it straight because you weren't paying attention at the time.
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Now I couldn't disagree more. Why "should" it be corrected? I don't give a flying **** if a horizon is slightly wonky and dunno why it would bother anyone. :shrug:
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Now I couldn't disagree more. Why "should" it be corrected? I don't give a flying **** if a horizon is slightly wonky and dunno why it would bother anyone. :shrug:
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It all depends on what the image is of or what's going to be done with it, such as selling prints or submitting to stock libraries.
I wouldn't think a standard, picture postcard landscape image would sell very well with an off kilter horizon. So yes it does matter but not all the time
 
People who own 'that shot has been done to death'. It hasn't by me and I want to see what I can produce and how I can improve my photography. Also, I might actually *like* that shot!
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Now I couldn't disagree more. Why "should" it be corrected? I don't give a flying **** if a horizon is slightly wonky and dunno why it would bother anyone. :shrug:
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Like I said, I don't mind purposely wonky horizons - I do them often enough myself - but if it's a degree or so out, it's rare that there was a reason for it to be a degree or two out and that just highlights laziness in the most part....
 
People who look at photos of relatives and say "Oh that looks just like them." Who do they expect them to look like?
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Why "should" it be corrected? I don't give a flying **** if a horizon is slightly wonky and dunno why it would bother anyone. :shrug:
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Photography is generally a representation of real life, and horizons are normally level. :shrug:

If it is meant to be wonky that is one thing, but laziness or not having attention to detail is another. :shrug: People are drawing attention to it to help btw. It has happened to me in the past and I thanked the person for pointing it out.

But if you want to have your horizons wonky then fine, but don't be surprised if people mention it when your horizons are not level. ;) :lol:
 
My sister who thinks its nothing to carry 6lbs worth of camera and lenses on a night out when I want to enjoy myself.

And then I spend half the time that I'm supposed to be enjoying myself retaking pictures because she "doesn't like how her skin looks in the pictures".

:O
 
specialman said:
Like I said, I don't mind purposely wonky horizons - I do them often enough myself - but if it's a degree or so out, it's rare that there was a reason for it to be a degree or two out and that just highlights laziness in the most part....
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Exactly. If you're going for off straight at least make it look as though it's intended, otherwise it's just laziness.
 
A wonky horizon takes 2 seconds to fix in post. Why not fix it?
 
People who buy a new camera body then moan that their pictures are rubbish as they are using a cheap lens.

When you tell people what body you have and they turn their nose up at it as its not the latest model.

People that ask for feedback then compltely ignore the thread they created.
 
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Having an idea for a picture but not having the kit to execute the shot.

(Wireless flash triggers during the N Wales TP meet anyone? :D)
 
Too much space above the head, colour popping, seeing a colour and mono version of the same picture in a thread, pictures where fancy photoshop techniques have been used to wow the viewer instead of good photography, cut off feet, direct flash, studio shots which are photoshopped to make the subject look like they're floating in a void, OTT skin smoothing, OTT eye whitening, most HDR.

Is that enough?
 
Metal God said:
Oh, I forgot one.

Mac users, who think they are sooo superior to everyone else.
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We have an art department at work who are all mac users. They get very upset when you tell them PC stands for "Proper Computer" :D
 
People who buy a camera just to do a 365 which comprises of nothing more than them wearing different hats, clothing, that they are convinced makes them look funny.

My daughter who insists that photography is just 'point and shoot'.

My partner finding out how much i paid for a lens :-)
 
people who give advice from a text book or google and not from experience

this is probably my worst pet hate

reading from a text book or searching google may give you an insight but you'll never really know until you try it and then giving advice from what you have read or found on google doesn't gel with me
i know in some cases it can be good advise but your own experience would be far better
 
ZoneV said:
Having an idea for a picture but not having the kit to execute the shot.

(Wireless flash triggers during the N Wales TP meet anyone? :D)
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But there is ALWAYS a way, a dismissive attitude instead of an experimental one will just lead you down dead ends.
How did people manage before remote flash triggering? Before the ability to just ramp up the iso without swapping out mags or carrying a separate camera? Before the luxury of multi point autofocus? Before checking the lcd to check your exposure?
 
Simon photo said:
But there is ALWAYS a way, a dismissive attitude instead of an experimental one will just lead you down dead ends.
How did people manage before remote flash triggering? Before the ability to just ramp up the iso without swapping out mags or carrying a separate camera? Before the luxury of multi point autofocus? Before checking the lcd to check your exposure?
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Lol. There was no other way, trust me, we tried. Not everything in modern photography was possible in the old days. :)
 
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Simon photo said:
I think what Im saying is that even though we have so many tools at our disposal these days, the option to strip things right back is still there,
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I needed to fill a very heavily backlit subject that was approx 10 metres away, sticking out of a lake. My flash wasn't poweful enough to reach and my OCF cable is only 1 meter long. I did bracket exposures but really wanted a "straight" shot with the subject correctly exposed and without blowing the sky.

I needed to place a flash at the base of the subject, no?
 
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Clearly you could have poured a can of petrol onto the lake and set it on fire - honestly some people just can't think outside the box, when i was a lad... etc :lol:
 
big soft moose said:
Clearly you could have poured a can of petrol onto the lake and set it on fire - honestly some people just can't think outside the box, when i was a lad... etc :lol:
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We considered the creative use of napalm and atomic weapons but there were swans and canoeists nearby. :D
 
you'll never get anywhere if you worry about little things like that.... very tasty is roast swan :lol:
 
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:laugh:

Hmm, shrink-wrapped canoeists...

:)

(Anyway, we digress...)
 
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boliston said:
Because that requires cropping the image :exit:
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Yup, but if someone is anally retentive enough not to crop their pictures (which, lets face it, has been done since Fox Talbot thought 'I know, I'll chuck some silver in that') then they should be getting their uprights sorted out from the word go.
 
DemiLion said:
Yup, but if someone is anally retentive enough not to crop their pictures (which, lets face it, has been done since Nicéphore Niépce thought 'I know, I'll chuck some bitumen of Judea, in that') then they should be getting their uprights sorted out from the word go.
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Fixed that for you.
 
Great thread.

Obviously mostly tongue in cheek........but

Some of the posts remind me why I will never join a camera club.

I mean, jeez - do what you want. If you like it, great. If a few others like it, fantastic.

Rules.....pah! Give me a rule, I'll break it for the hell of it.

I've learned more by breaking the rules than any armchair expert could ever teach me.

Oh! I guess that means I hate armchair experts.
 
People on facebook who make an "(insert name) photography" group, and it's just snapshots of themselves on a night out or something.

Why not post them into your own facebook?
 
Yup, but if someone is anally retentive enough not to crop their pictures (which, lets face it, has been done since Nicéphore Niépce thought 'I know, I'll chuck some bitumen of Judea, in that' Leonardo da Vinci travelled back in time to photography Jesus but the Lizard Overlords covered it up, just like 9-11 and the murder of Diana and Elvis) then they should be getting their uprights sorted out from the word go.

brianwar said:
Fixed that for you.
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Do try to get the basics right, hmmm?
 
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Madhouseof5 said:
People who ask me what camera I have because "it takes nice pictures". Like the camera does all the work.
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hahaha I get this all the time :{
& those who think film is either dead or pointless! Rghh.
 
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Some people find it quite fowl though :lol:
 
excellent thread.... ;)

people at college who need to discuss every single aspect and option instead of just getting on with taking the damn shot...

other toggers who look over your shoulder and say 'what a great shot' , copy your shot, and then get a better one than you...

lens envy............ (and that's normally me :lol:)
 
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