Whats your photographic pet peeves?

[J450N]

Originally Posted by jwc57

(I guess my biggest pet peeve is anyone using the word "awesome".)

I'll take "awesome" over "sick" any day.

[Rico]

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.

[Kingsfan]

Originally Posted by J450N

I'll take "awesome" over "sick" any day.

i'll take "awesome" and "sick" over "hella awesome" and "hella sick" any day

[bugmenot]

Originally Posted by Thardy

I bet the 2.8 version is at least a whole stop more awesome than my 70-200 f/4!

Haha! To be honest though, the newest f/4 version is just as sharp and well constructed. Perhaps even better!

[John E Earley]

My pet peeve is about whatever is causing all my photos to turn out so bad

[redisburning]

posting a photo of some ridiculously tiny size where I can't see anything.

seriously, this is 2012, not 1998 =(

[Spavinaw]

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.

[Cold]

Originally Posted by Spavinaw

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.

Snaptures?

[mrisney]

Oversaturated landscapes
Instagram old timey effects
DSLR "rigs"
Not knowing if Portra will be around in 5 years

[stillshunter]

Originally Posted by maddoc

"International Street Photographer"

Hear, hear! Well said!!!

Him and that self-promoter "Mr 85mm" who accosts us all, like Hari Krishna on the corner, with rubbish free 'teach you street' e-books.

[Pablito]

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.

[tmfabian]

Originally Posted by gavinlg

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

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.

[-doomed-]

Originally Posted by Pablito

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.

In that instance I'd imagine the assailant would be better armed and have already made their move.

[Pablito]

Originally Posted by -doomed-

In that instance I'd imagine the assailant would be better armed and have already made their move.

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.

[jody36]

That owning a leica is all that counts.

[Guaranteed]

People that see you taking a picture that stop in front of you to see what your trying to get a picture of.

[n5jrn]

Overly complex techno-cameras with too many confusing options. Which means just about every digital camera ever made. (That's true even though I just bought a new digital camera and like its advantages -- I still dislike a lot of its UI aspects.)

[Kent]

1. The paranoia that you encounter when taking photos sometimes.

2. The cost and bad quality of lab processing (in my area).

3. The unwillingness by photo stores to process film in the first place (in my area).

4. The low availability of used camera gear (in my area).

5. Leica prices.

6. Prices of digital rangefinders (only really bad because of 2. and 3.)

7. The high energy consumption of (some) digital cameras.

8. Bulky DSLR sets.

9. That camera bags that hold everything I want to bring are always too heavy.

10. That I often lack the time to take photos.

[Creagerj]

-Trifling over a question that was asked before. Who cares? If you don't want to answer, don't. There is nothing wrong with asking again. You might get some fresh responses.

-Spending all day scanning film only to discover that 90% is crap, 9% is complete Sh*t, and 1% is largely underwhelming.

-Looking forward to developing that roll of film with that awesome shot only to discover that it has been ruined by a technical flaw.

-"What kind of photos do you take? Like landscapes?"

[charjohncarter]

Dust embedded in my C-41 or E-6 film by processors that don't change their drying filters.

[Roger Hicks]

Originally Posted by Pablito

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.

Although I completely take your point, I defy anyone to pick up a Rollei TLR with pistol grip and pentaprism and NOT to compare it with a Maori war club rather than a camera (I have handled both).

And one of my friends (Tim Page) did actually stop a round (7.62mm, he thinks) with his Nikon F in Vietnam. It saved his life but the camera wasn't much use afterwards. Looks impressive, though.

Being generous, I'd say that 'camera as weapon' is merely shorthand for 'camera that is unlikely to stop working'. Being ungenerous, I'd say that there are distressingly many photographers with small willies and big cameras.

Cheers,

R.

[back alley]

- street shots with people walking but their feet are cut off...mine included...
- people who use 'cron' instead of summicron...sounds pretentious to me...trying too hard to be cool
- comparisons of film to real photography and digital to crap photography...i wish these people a long slow and painful ending
- pretension in general
- people with real talent...born with creativity...sooooo jealous i am!!
- people who ignore the threads on new leica gear breaking down and still insisting that leica is the standard bearer of quality...there are none so blind....
- rude assholes whose only purpose in life is try to make others feel 'less than'...i wish you all the same that i wished for digital vs. film freaks!
- ...

[semilog]

Street shots of people doing nothing much in front of big photographic street advertisements; or interacting with the aforementioned advertisements in a predictable configuration. These pictures appear frequently and are infrequently done well; very frequently, poorly.

[semilog]

Originally Posted by J450N

I'll take "awesome" over "sick" any day.

That's awesome.

[HiFiTie]

Huge Watermarks
Overdone HDR
Shallow DOF with no subject matter
Crushed blacks on every photo