Whats your photographic pet peeves?

[divewizard]

"Those are nice pictures, you must have an expensive camera"

[JayM]

Intellectual laziness. Sure it's easy for just about anyone to judge everything by nearly meaningless technical standards, but it isn't that hard to engage your brain a little.

edit: Also, "I just do this for fun." Everyone knows that challenging yourself is dumb, boring, and a waste of time.

[Mike Riches]

There are many but one of the best is , how come its all fuzzy in the front and back ?

[Pherdinand]

what irritates me is rff people calling a Zeiss Ikon "cheap"
or Leica prices "reasonable"

More seriously, what annoys me is tourists complaining that people "get into their shot" which is the uber-important 23 243 344th shot of the Eiffel tower or such.
I managed however to convince my girlfriend, that it is OK to have people in her photos (people she doesnt know).

PS: whats the problem with Helmut Newton??

[Pherdinand]

oh yea, reading through the other peoples' pet peeves..i remembered one more:
i went to a Madonna show (yea kick me), would have been actually nice and we were 10 meters from the stage but whenever she walked out there, a bazillion of smartphones were lifted up with two bazillions of arms to take that 257th burned-out blurry green shot of her and therefore it was nearly impossible to see anything. And i'm 1.80m - my girlfriend is 20cm lower, you can imagine her frustration between the Dutch.

[radical7]

Originally Posted by maddoc

"International Street Photographer"

Care to elaborate? You find this title pretentious?

[Bob Michaels]

Originally Posted by radical7

What irritates the living snot out of you, photographically speaking? ....................

People who take all of this too seriously and let things bother them.

[stephen.s1]

Huge watermarks/signatures.

[thegman]

Probably people who say about their cameras "it's just a tool", but then insist on having various collectors edition Leicas. Basically photographers who pretend it's all about the photos, but only obsess over gear. Nothing wrong with loving the gear, but don't pretend you don't!

[jsrockit]

Digital vs. Film

[radical7]

Originally Posted by Bob Michaels

People who take all of this too seriously and let things bother them.

It's just a little pet peeve, nothin' serious

[giellaleafapmu]

When using film airport security controls.

All the time the existence of different standards for things which shouldn't require that. For example why so many cables to use Pocket Wizards with different flash/camera combinations, why a lens manufacturer produces a profile for correcting distortion of its lenses in Lightroom, another in Photoshop but you need to run a certain version, and having the same profile for any of the lenses in Gimp is a nightmare...

The paranoia against cameras many countries developed after 9.11 (I know, I know, terrorists take pictures of models in parks all the time and they use soft-boxes instead of umbrellas).

Not being able to print a large format colour film without passing through a digital scan.

Collectors inflating the value of old cameras they buy and don't even use...

GLF

[coelacanth]

"There is a very small dent near xxxx" but no photo from that angle posted.

"Buyer pays the Paypal fee" Just FYI, Paypal prohibits that practice.

"Will take [item name]. I'm in [country name]. Can you give me some discount? LOL." Really? actually got this message with "LOL" included.

[Gary Briggs]

someone has an expensive dslr, set on AUTO.....and always use the flash

[jsrockit]

Originally Posted by Gary Briggs

someone has an expensive dslr, set on AUTO.....and always use the flash

Martin Parr?

[matthewm]

Originally Posted by giellaleafapmu

Collectors inflating the value of old cameras they buy and don't even use...

Haha! That's one that I didn't even know I had until you mentioned it.

Someone has already said it, but when people say, "Those photos are amazing! What camera do you use?"

Urban Outfitters. Wait, what? Yeah. Walk into an Urban Outfitters and look at their asking prices on Holgas and Dianas. Umm... SIXTY FREAKIN' DOLLARS for a HOLGA!? Give me a break.

Family members at weddings. They always want to jump in and take photos during the posed shots. So what you end up with is grandma's camera in the corner of your shot. Or everyone looking at you, except for that one idiot in the back who is looking at his girlfriend while she snaps a picture on her Droid-whatever. My wife and I write it into our contract that people are to refrain from taking photos while we're shooting and that we aren't responsible for missed or poorly-directed images as a result of other photographers. I know it sounds stupid, but it's to protect us so that the bride can't come back and say, "I asked you to get a photo of all of us together and half of the people aren't looking at the camera!" Then I can say, "Well, if you look at your contract, I told you that no one else could take photos when I was and that I wasn't responsible for ruined photographs due to other photographers' interventions. Your Aunt Sally probably got a pretty good shot of it. Especially considering she was standing directly in front of me. Go ask her."

[finguanzo]

Originally Posted by maddoc

"International Street Photographer"

LOL....
yes, agree..

[hipsterdufus]

To elaborate on the guy that disliked people taking cameras to museums to take pictures of paintings, I hate it when people take pictures of other peoples' art. It's fine to make an abstract of an interesting sculpture. But I see way too many folks at exhibitions just taking straight-on copy-work shots of other peoples' art. What a useless picture to take.

I also dislike talking to photographers who have found the "ONE TRUE PATH". You know the guy: the guy that only uses the zone system, HC-110, large format, etc. (or has some other strict set of guidelines for photographing) All of that would be fine, except this same guy is preaching as loudly and obnoxiously to everyone that will listen on the the Internet that this is the ONLY way to photograph.

[Phothomas]

"Can you really still get film for such an old camera?"

[Bob Michaels]

I guess I should have put a smiley there since my original comment was "tongue in cheek"

Then I went back and read all the responses. Boy, there sure are a lot of people here who are peeved by what others do or say even though it has no impact on them at all.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Michaels
People who take all of this too seriously and let things bother them.

Originally Posted by radical7

It's just a little pet peeve, nothin' serious

[bob338]

Originally Posted by Bob Michaels

Boy, there sure are a lot of people here who are peeved by what others do or say even though it has no impact on them at all.

This from the guy who posted a list of people who admitted to using pirated copies of Adobe software???

[nikon_sam]

My first reaction would be to say I get a bit upset when someone steps in front of me while I'm shooting (taking my time...maybe at a car show...trying to get a nice angle) and this bozo is using his phone's camera...but maybe that makes me look a bit snobbish...

So I'll say that this irks me too but on a different level...
I shoot film (my choice) and standing next to me at an event I'm working there's that guy with his digital-whatever firing away at a rate of 20 shots/sec. and it's a boring scene...nothing really happening but now he's got 20 shots of it...and then the editing right afterwards...it bugs me because instead of waiting for something decent some of those digi-guys just fire away hoping one of them is what they were looking for...I don't get it...does that make me a snob too...???

[nikon_sam]

Originally Posted by Bob Michaels

I guess I should have put a smiley there since my original comment was "tongue in cheek"

Then I went back and read all the responses. Boy, there sure are a lot of people here who are peeved by what others do or say even though it has no impact on them at all.

Sooooo true...that's why I asked if I was snobbish for my response....

Originally Posted by bob338

This from the guy who posted a list of people who admitted to using pirated copies of Adobe software???

OUCH...!!!

[darya150]

Brand snobbery, overly large dslrs used by those who chatter about technology as an end in itself, rather than viewpoint, working with light, and a hunger to capture imagery.

[qhoti]

"Oh so that old camera only shoots black and white?"