Topic: Biggest photography peeves?

Mine has to be when someone looks at my pictures and then says something to the effect of, "those are great photos, you must have a very good camera!"

Yeah, because that's all it takes to take good photos.

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I hate when people ask me why I bother to take pictures of random things and meaningless scenes and not actual people.

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"those are great photos, you must have a very good camera!"

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I wonder if people said the same thing to Mozart about his piano.

I hate when I'm taking photos adjacent to a road (read: not in the road) and some smartass has to honk as he passes me. Scares the crap out of me.

Or when I'm taking photos and some stranger shoves his face into mine to try to see my LCD. (Personal space!) They tend to get a little annoyed when I hit a button to turn it off so they'll go away.

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Wes said:
Or when I'm taking photos and some stranger shoves his face into mine to try to see my LCD. (Personal space!) They tend to get a little annoyed when I hit a button to turn it off so they'll go away.

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heh take photos of chearleaders or gymnists then ...

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I hate when I'm taking photos adjacent to a road (read: not in the road) and some smartass has to honk as he passes me. Scares the crap out of me.

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That one really gets me too.

I also dislike taking a really great photo of someone and then having to trash it because they object to having their photo taken. Yes, I ask people after I've photographed them, it's just common (or not so common) courtesy.

I think the only thing that annoys me is that most people start smiling and posing when they see that they are being photographed (at least people I know). This make it really hard to shoot a better photograph. It stops being natural, and becomes forced.

couple of things:

if you're taking photos at a party, everyone wants to look at the LCD straight after photos. I mean they were
there like 2 seconds ago!

Camera shake resulting in unsharp transparencies on my MF camera, damn thing promises so much but i hardly ever get it right.

lens flare!

Yeah i agree with asptamer, its annoying when people get all wooden infront of the lens. You just gotta trick em into thinking you're done taking pictures then shoot a few more.

MAinly though the worst thing is seeing a scene that you know you could make a great picture out of if only you had your camera with you / some more film / another memory card. So then you vow to have you trusty sidekick with you at all times, till you forget again. Ah well

I hate it when they catch you at the window and call the police... err... different forum.

My biggest pet peeve is when there is a group of people all wanting to take photos of a subject, and some jackass gets right in the middle of everyones shot and starts snapping shots repeatedly with no regards to anyone else.

I hate that....

People using a flash around me while I am trying shooting fireworks or low light shots with extended exposures.

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People using a flash around me while I am trying shooting fireworks or low light shots with extended exposures.

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I hope you do realize that their flash does not affect your firework photographs.....

But it can, depending on the amount of haze or dust in the air.

Take a flash picture of the sky at night and all you'll get is a dark haze. The same thing can show up in someone else's long exposure.

I was just in Carlsbad Cavern two weeks ago and people would use their flash in front of my long exposure and I'd have to shoot it over again. It's worse when they were actually in the shot.

I'll never understand people who use a flash for every single one of their outdoor shots.

People using a flash to take shots of creatures in large aquariums make me laugh too.

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krets said:

I'll never understand people who use a flash for every single one of their outdoor shots. People using a flash to take shots of creatures in large aquariums make me laugh too.:::11oh1:::

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hmmmm, well i use a flash in a majority of my outdoor shots ... but i dont want people to understand my madness

hehe it just helps with some of the shadows when you are dealing with a shot that you can't tell everyone to stop for a second while you wait for the sun to go behind a cloud ... or turn everyone around so they are facing in a better direction for less shadow on their face ...

as for the flash with shots of creatures in aquariums ... i have only done that once ... but they had a type of glass that was non reflective ... did two shots one with and one without .. the one with actually came out a little bit better.

Krets, I understand what you mean. Fill flash is one thing, but people taking pictures of a ball game from the seats don't seem to realize that flash won't do a thing.

Of course, my favorite is still all the people taking flash pictures of the nighttime NY skyline from atop the Empire State Building. Those have to be some amazing flashes.

Then again, you have to give some of those people a little leeway ... a lot of those disposables don't provide a way to turn the flash off.

or some of the digital cameras that require 3 hands and 30 fingers just to hold down all the buttons and turn the knobs needed to shut the flash off.

Just thought of another one, though it's not technically photography-related.

Why do people not remove the stickers from their cameras? It's especially bad with a Sony. Sony puts a dozen stickers all over their cameras, advertising the cameras' features.

I see someone out on vacation taking photos with a sticker-covered camera and I just want to walk up and start pulling them off.

This one may just be me.

hehe no thats not just you ... i have stopped and informed many people about those stickers ... one person told me this ...

'well when we are done on vacation i will be returning the camera to Wal-Mart. so i didnt want to pull them off'

Ha. That is funny.

I got the same excuse when I asked about the stickers on a camera at a wedding I went to.

Those are the same people that get pissed off and scream when they actually do buy something to keep and its slightly damaged when they open the box.

Jason

those people shood be crucified... theres enough greed without their cheap asses.