Your photography pet hates

Chris_Lawman2004 said:
Read through the posts, 95% of these people aren't joking.

I hear this kind of snotty attitude all the time and I get bored of it. (not you, the people with the pet hates)
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How do you tell if someone's joking or not from a forum, besides the dubious use of smilies? Just curious, as its one of the reasons I don't frequent forums anywhere near as much as I used to.
 
It's a Pet Hate, a minor irritation, not to ban people from whatever or take them out and put them up against a wall a shoot them if they do whatever.

It's a bit of fun, people sharing photography's minor irritations to see what irritates other people. Jeez, chill out.
 
leon1p said:
My personal pet hates are silly mistakes like lugging my camera about then finding I left my cards at home or the batteries are dead.. Adjusting settings and forgetting for subsequent shots and not taking the time to use the viewfinder to notice the ridiculous exposures and not previewing. Rushing to take pictures and not thinking enough about what I could achieve with more thought and composition. Also not stopping in the car when I think there is a good subject because I like to get where I am going. My unsteady hand. When it is too sunny to see in the viewfinder what results you are getting.
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Mind reader
O and leaving the camera at home 'cause the weather's rubbish when i set out for work:lol:
 
vizzair said:
Mind reader
O and leaving the camera at home 'cause the weather's rubbish when i set out for work:lol:
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I love rubbish weather and pretty much can't stand sunny days for shooting, unless im somewhere like the Indian ocean in which case blue seas and sunny skies prevail. But that doesn't happen as often as i like so its waiting for the clouds and storms for me!
 
Darthchaffinch said:
people who tout themselves as professional photographers, and from a look at their website are clearly not
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That would depend on how you define the word "professional". In the strictest sense a professional photographer is someone whose profession is photography, i.e. gets paid to take photos. :rules:

If I have a full time job as a lorry driver but I shoot weddings on the weekend in exchange for money, then i am a professional photographer on the weekend and a professional driver during the week.

However, if you are referring to a high standard of photographic competency, than the word "professional" becomes extremely vague and subjective. :bonk:

some photographers may look at the website of the world's highest paid photographer and say "he's no professional photographer" just because they don't particularly like his work or his style of photography isn't compatible with their own.

Do you consider yourself a professional photographer? Or are you just a hobbyist / other?
 
Chris_Lawman2004 said:


That would depend on how you define the word "professional". In the strictest sense a professional photographer is someone whose profession is photography, i.e. gets paid to take photos. :rules:

If I have a full time job as a lorry driver but I shoot weddings on the weekend in exchange for money, then i am a professional photographer on the weekend and a professional driver during the week.

However, if you are referring to a high standard of photographic competency, than the word "professional" becomes extremely vague and subjective. :bonk:

some photographers may look at the website of the world's highest paid photographer and say "he's no professional photographer" just because they don't particularly like his work or his style of photography isn't compatible with their own.

Do you consider yourself a professional photographer? Or are you just a hobbyist / other?
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i think it may be a reference to the type of "professional" whos website is "well its a Facebook page at the moment" and knocks out weddings for sub £200 with plenty of edit and a ton of colour pop cos that's what the customers want apparently
 
Photographs that have been 'retouched' altho in actual fact the contrast & saturation bars slid up causing orange skin. Nasty!
 
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IamAshlyRose said:
Photographs that have been 'retouched' altho in actual fact the contrast & saturation bars slid up causing orange skin. Nasty!
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Actually, I remember doing this myself in the early days of my photography, then I realised that once you have finished moving around your slider in Adobe Camera Raw you can go up to the top and take out the orange tint . . . Lesson Learned. :D

This is another reason I don't like to edit 100's of images all at once. I think you start losing your objectivity and you get a kind of colour / exposure / contrast blindness.
 
ZoneV said:
Whichever lens I have on the camera, I always see shots that would suit one of my other lenses.

It's both annoying and amusing, especially if I've only just changed lens. :lol:
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Oh I get this all the time, it's the downside of an all prime lineup!

Today I have vowed to break with tradition and shoot only with 2 zooms, should be interesting!
 
Chris_Lawman2004 said:
Actually, I remember doing this myself in the early days of my photography, then I realised that once you have finished moving around your slider in Adobe Camera Raw you can go up to the top and take out the orange tint . . . Lesson Learned. :D

This is another reason I don't like to edit 100's of images all at once. I think you start losing your objectivity and you get a kind of colour / exposure / contrast blindness.
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Also done this, and will never be doing so again!
 
Chris_Lawman2004 said:


That would depend on how you define the word "professional". In the strictest sense a professional photographer is someone whose profession is photography, i.e. gets paid to take photos. :rules:

If I have a full time job as a lorry driver but I shoot weddings on the weekend in exchange for money, then i am a professional photographer on the weekend and a professional driver during the week.

However, if you are referring to a high standard of photographic competency, than the word "professional" becomes extremely vague and subjective. :bonk:

some photographers may look at the website of the world's highest paid photographer and say "he's no professional photographer" just because they don't particularly like his work or his style of photography isn't compatible with their own.

Do you consider yourself a professional photographer? Or are you just a hobbyist / other?
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Hi! I know what you're saying but you can tell the wheat from the chaff in photographer terms! There's some wedding photographers who tout themselves as pros, but e.g. snap with subjects dead centre most of the time with pish poor atention to detail etc.

I've done 2 close friends weddings (and a funeral! :eek: ), got paid for one, and snapped some friends kids for bottles of wine etc but I still consider myself only a keen amateur. :)
 
Chris_Lawman2004 said:
@Alan Clogwyn

I have just had a look at the Quarry-scape gallery and I must say I am loving those images. They have a real old fashion film look about them.
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Thankyou :thumbs: I think the reason for the film look is quite clear :D
 
If you never took photos before the digital age then you don't know what you're doing.
 
Daverkl said:
If you never took photos before the digital age then you don't know what you're doing.
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I hope thats not the case as I was born into the digital age & I like to think I kno what I'm doing :} I'm not a professional but I usually acheive what I intend to create. I do have a passion for film photography tho.. :}
 
IamAshlyRose said:
I hope thats not the case as I was born into the digital age & I like to think I kno what I'm doing :} I'm not a professional but I usually acheive what I intend to create. I do have a passion for film photography tho.. :}
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You know what I mean :)

I do aswel .....sometimes :lol: I've only been doing this as a hobby for the last couple of years. Only got my first dslr about 6 months ago.
 
My camera failing to remind me to turn the IS off when I get an unexpected panning opportunity.

My camera failing to remind me that for yesterday's shots I had mirror lockup on and so miss the surprise opportunity I shot today.

My camera failing to alert me that I accidentally nudged the EV wheel.

My network failing to tell me that I havn't yet transferred the pictures off my laptop.

Advancing years causing memory failures ;)
 
A hate I have is when photographers who prefer not to use film assume that every film photographer is a snob that claims you're not a photographer unless you've done film. I actually quite hate when photographers have that snobbery about the fact they shoot with film aswell. I shoot both for different reasons & tend to think of them as different mediums rather than ones better than the other. How can they be compared when, realistically other than capturing a moment in time to produce a photograph, they're nothing alike? Photographers need to spend less time scoffing over someones preferred technique & focus on developing their own work.

NOTE ➝ I've not come across much snobbery on this forum but I've encountered it in a variety of photographers in a variety of places & I just don't understand the need for it. Perhaps it comes with the territory?
 
Photographers whose idea of wildlife photography appears to be exclusively using/paying other people to show them where to find wildlife or use their hides. Typically mentioning nothing of the story behind the image or the location - just "Osprey catching a fish in Scotland" or "Polar bear from a recent trip" type descriptions.

"Professional" wildlife photographers whose only real income is their allowance from daddy; if they had to earn a living like the rest of us would have been bankrupt long ago. Easy to spot, their bio usually mention lots of holidays in Kenya as a child; little about education or career.

Birders who spend gazillions and produce god knows how much CO2 chasing a lesser-spotted norwegian house sparrow, because it has slightly darker feet than a regular house sparrow, just to get the "tick" and a rubbish image with the £15k of gear they have no idea how to use past "P" mode.

Oh, and idiots that can't work out how to turn off the autofocus beep / pop-up flash.

I think that's about it for now ;)
 
Shooting with a 'naff' lens whilst I desperately try to save for much sharper glass.
 
Realising that I stand awkwardly to take photographs & not being able to work out why or even stop doing it. Just awkward.
 
IamAshlyRose said:
Realising that I stand awkwardly to take photographs & not being able to work out why or even stop doing it. Just awkward.
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Haha, I do the wierdest one foot thing if I'm shooting while I walk. No idea why I think standing on one foot will be more stable than on two but I do it all the time!
 
Bondy said:
As a newbie to this photography lark I haven't had time to develop any deep pathological hatred for anything yet. But I do get a bit miffed as it always seems to be sunny when I'm at work and miserable when I'm off.
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:plusone:

As I'm new to photography, my only pet hate (so far) apart from the above is the difference in price between what I need and what I want
 
sweb said:
...the difference in price between what I need and what I want
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This This This.
Can't afford anything lately.
My wishlist is pretty desirable O.o hahaha.
 
IamAshlyRose said:
Realising that I stand awkwardly to take photographs & not being able to work out why or even stop doing it. Just awkward.
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Yep, did this yesterday at a photoshoot, looked like a right muppet :shake: One of the reasons i prefer to shoot landscapes rather than people, they don't judge me :nuts:
 
and worse nifty two fifty :exit:
 
Pop up flashes
 
Probably already mentioned, but...

Brides who want stupid Instagram type effects on every picture!
 
People who get bent out of shape about JPEG v raw, and protection filters. I'll try to give beginners good advice, if they ask for it, but it's your gear and they're your photographs. Do as you please, I don't really care!
 
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