Your photography pet hates

Or a crowded bed with 4.5 togs in it
 
Too bad moose did this joke about 2 weeks ago for the same reason :P
 
I've only got limited material to work with :lol:
 
And it was right after I said I hated the term 'tog' an' all! :D I just got déjà vu here
 
I hate running jokes.

Especially ones about Seb Coe.



(I'll get my spikes)
 
Most PP. If a photo needs to have been taken in raw to be rescuable, it's a badly exposed photo, pure and simple. Fair enough to play with them but please keep your overblown (even not overblown [for my tastes!]) HDR and your color (sic) popped shots on your own screens and walls. Feel free to stick whatever you like up on your walls - prints look a lot better than screens! (Just don't expect me to "Oooh!" and "Ahhh!" over any HDR/popped shots!
 
HDR, yup, that's another one. It pains me to see people stick them up and get tonnes of "Wow! that's amazing, love the cartoonish feel to it" comments ... like, wtf?
 
The closed mindedness I've read in the first few pages of this thread :p

(he says tongue in cheek ;) )
 
Nod said:
Most PP. If a photo needs to have been taken in raw to be rescuable, it's a badly exposed photo, pure and simple. Fair enough to play with them but please keep your overblown (even not overblown [for my tastes!]) HDR and your color (sic) popped shots on your own screens and walls. Feel free to stick whatever you like up on your walls - prints look a lot better than screens! (Just don't expect me to "Oooh!" and "Ahhh!" over any HDR/popped shots!
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So yiur saying people who shoot raw cant expose... hmmm maybe they shoot raw because sometimes yiu cant expose for the whole shot? Just a thought
 
People who take other people's opinions as a personal insult...

C'mon people, hasn't this forum had enough bickering for this month? :)
 
I love using old manual lenses and can't really afford top line gear but I had a 'mate' who thanks to his overpaid job and well off spouse, he was able to buy all the gear he wanted and then went on about how great it was, how crisp the lens made things and how I'd never get decent photos with anything I had because his was so much better.. It's really affected me and I hate taking pictures most of the time now because of this. I think anyone with that attitude has serious underlying issues and needs taken out and slapped round the head with their biggest lens.
Like I say.. I 'had' a mate.. I've even blocked him on faceberk now. he's a jerk.
 
Pete McC said:
I love using old manual lenses and can't really afford top line gear but I had a 'mate' who thanks to his overpaid job and well off spouse, he was able to buy all the gear he wanted and then went on about how great it was, how crisp the lens made things and how I'd never get decent photos with anything I had because his was so much better.. It's really affected me and I hate taking pictures most of the time now because of this. I think anyone with that attitude has serious underlying issues and needs taken out and slapped round the head with their biggest lens.
Like I say.. I 'had' a mate.. I've even blocked him on faceberk now. he's a jerk.
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Some of the best pictures I ever saw at our camera club were done by an 80 year old with a very old Voigtlander and Leica rangefinders.

Some of the worst were from a guy that had the best of everything possible.

I use a range of cameras dating back 40+ years as well as newer DSLRs. For me the search for perfection in every aspect is seconday to how the content of the picture itself moves me, interest me and captures the subject.

SO i am not actually bothered by the equipment used and your arrogant ex-mate epitomises the type of person I just ignore.

Seen them in many arenas.... bores al of them. Their only use is when they sell of perfectly good kit cheap as they have bought biger and better! (in their minds)

Pity them.....

Steve
 
Except he does actually take very good pictures, and some of the locations I've found for landscapes and such he's then went along and copied what I've done with his 'better gear' and everyone tells him he's great. It's sickening. but hey what can you do...
 
Pete McC said:
Except he does actually take very good pictures, and some of the locations I've found for landscapes and such he's then went along and copied what I've done with his 'better gear' and everyone tells him he's great. It's sickening. but hey what can you do...
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Don't tell him where you are going, or where you have taken the picture.

Find a different view and don't tell him how you did it.


Believe in yourself!
 
Pete McC said:
Except he does actually take very good pictures, and some of the locations I've found for landscapes and such he's then went along and copied what I've done with his 'better gear' and everyone tells him he's great. It's sickening. but hey what can you do...
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Do you shoot for your own pleasure or for the applause of others?

You are letting a non-entity over power you.

Enjoy your own efforts and do it for yourself.

I would love a Zprntax 645D but I will never have one - I would still make basic errors and get anoyed with myself as well but would I care what others think? Not a chance. I am my own best critic - and thats been that way for 50 years and my critique has never stopped me walking out the door without a camera. Be it a Canon 3.2mp G1 Samsung 16mp DV300F or Pentax MX with a 40mm M Pancake loaded with HP5.....

My eye is my camera and I take pictues for me first.

Steve
 
I've cut him out, so he can't see what I do anymore, I was just saying what he did in the past. yeah I know I should ignore him and I am now, but he's always there in the back of my head 'that would be sharper if you had the lens I had' etc... guess he's spoiled it for me on an inner level and it's my issue to deal with. until then I will keep taking pics and hope to get a shot that he can't for some other reason.
 
joebh123 said:
Over the top watermarks plastered all over the picture.
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Oh god this, especially when they are ****!

It's not really a photographer thing, but people uploading images for people to look at that are clearly trash.

e.g.

Now I wouldn't normally post someone elses facebook images in the PD but I think this one is fine as you will have no clue who it is, even if you are related.

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Why would you show anyone this picture:shrug:


Other things, people who by a DSLR an leave it on Auto, what's the point? You'd be better off with a compact.

People implying you will never take a good photo with a kit lens.
 
That is one of mine. People uploading a whole card's worth to facebook, hundreds of images, with barely any of them in focus! Blurred shots, total black frames, the few in focus feature people with their eyes closed . . . Drives me nuts. Its just pure laziness. And i especially hate it when I get tagged in such atrocities.
 
Also, people who use flash in a stadium. Seriously you don't need to be a photographer to realise it doesn't help. I had to tell a girl in front of me, to stop using the flash on her DSLR, "Unless you are trying to annoy people, or light the guy in fronts neck you flash isn't helping you."
 
chris-red said:
Also, people who use flash in a stadium. Seriously you don't need to be a photographer to realise it doesn't help. I had to tell a girl in front of me, to stop using the flash on her DSLR, "Unless you are trying to annoy people, or light the guy in fronts neck you flash isn't helping you."
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This made me chuckle. Why did you have to tell her? Did she seek your assistance? :lol:
 
At gigs too ^^ After being told not to.

I saw people at the O2 in London, Iron Maiden gig, take flash photos from the upper tiers ... I actually face-palmed. I only had my Fuji with a fixed lens, and got decent enough shots. I was able to get the crowd and full stage in, and timed the shots with the lighting. When the explosives on stage were lit up etc ...

What the people with flash on were getting was the people in the few rows in front of them lit up, and the stage in darkness. Twonks
 
chris-red said:
Also, people who use flash in a stadium. Seriously you don't need to be a photographer to realise it doesn't help. I had to tell a girl in front of me, to stop using the flash on her DSLR, "Unless you are trying to annoy people, or light the guy in fronts neck you flash isn't helping you."
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I lived at the seaside and would laugh when I saw pleasure boats half a mile offshore with little pops of flash firing towards the coast, the kind of flash you'd need to light up that distance produces fallout and an EMP :lol:
 
Tucksy81 said:
People taking photos with a IPad.
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+1

(usually directly in front of me!)

Also people who go to events etc and spend most of the time looking at it on the screen of their ipad, phone etc instead of watching the event real, live and in front of them!
 
The term "pancake lens".

Hate it!

Dean.
 
abdoujaparov said:
I have a photo that blurry on my Facebook. It's from college, 20+ years ago, and it brings back many happy memories (and many unhappy haircuts).
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That's fair enough, but that was taken on a night out in the last month or so.
 
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markmullen said:
I lived at the seaside and would laugh when I saw pleasure boats half a mile offshore with little pops of flash firing towards the coast, the kind of flash you'd need to light up that distance produces fallout and an EMP :lol:
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Like it :):D
 
Techy Guy said:
+1

(usually directly in front of me!)

Also people who go to events etc and spend most of the time looking at it on the screen of their ipad, phone etc instead of watching the event real, live and in front of them!
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I had to trawl through 18 pages before somebody mentioned iPad. I had a few of them in Sicily last week:bang::bang:

My hate is equipment reviews in the magazines - for example a macro lens test where they have the usual suspects but no Pentax D-FA/DA Macro. Naturally the winner is always the Nikon or Canon, but that is no good to me whatsoever as neither come in PK-AF fit.
 
People who, in critique, treat "rule of thirds", golden ratio and other "rules" of composition as if they were real, actual, rules and not the guidelines they're supposed to be.
 
welshwizard645 said:
I had to trawl through 18 pages before somebody mentioned iPad. I had a few of them in Sicily last week:bang::bang:

My hate is equipment reviews in the magazines - for example a macro lens test where they have the usual suspects but no Pentax D-FA/DA Macro. Naturally the winner is always the Nikon or Canon, but that is no good to me whatsoever as neither come in PK-AF fit.
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I agree they should include a pentax but like 70% of people shoot nikon or canon. What annoys me about the mags is they say x lens beats y lens..... but its 5times the price. Its hardly a comparison. And as far as value for money the mags are useless
 
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