10 Photography Pet Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole

[alfredo]

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/08/black-hole/

One example:

Rock-Concert Strobage

Your flash won’t reach the stage. It will just light up the dude’s head who is standing in front of you – no matter how many times you look at the photo you just took, scratch your head and then raise up the camera to take another one. For people who know better, this becomes all they can see while their favorite band is shredding on stage.

Turn off the flash and try to keep your hand steady. That’s all you can do.

[hippywife]

1. My favorite: The Arm’s Length Self-Portrait

And a fine example they used, too. Creepy, that guy. :rofl:

[alfredo]

2. Maybe we should do a bad photo contest.

[JeffR]

7. Finally, a theme that's right in my wheelhouse!

;-)

[alfredo]

8. Sooner or later a winner will have that as a theme. How can you make good

images without knowing the difference between good and bad.


I'm still learning. I think.

[Mugu]

10. Now that's a contest that I have a whole hard drive full of possible winners.

[Mz Pip]

15. I've got lots of those...

It might actually be a good challenge.

[Johnny Noshoes]

19. There's a variation on that..

the arms length shot taken using the LCD to frame it instead of the perfectly good viewfinder. It is something that really bugs me when I see people that have a camera WITH an actual viewfinder and instead they use the LCD panel to frame the shot. Yeah sometimes it might be the only way to do it I guess but most times it just seems like the lazy way to take a picture. I guess I'm just old school and figure a camera has a viewfinder for a reason.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. when people do that, I always

pull out one of my slave-powered flashes and point it back at them... you should hear them try to figure that out

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. also love the first comment

which rips them an asshole for making a list like this!

lol

and I quote...

"People – especially selfrighteous photographers – who make lists of negative things, who go on and on about things they don't like, who get hung up on other people who annoy them, who has a monopoly on good and cool. People whose top pet peave is other people giving friends compliments. WTF? I started reading the list because I thought I might learn something … Last time I make that mistake."


love it

[alfredo]

9. When it comes down to it, if you take a picture and like it. That's enough.

[Mz Pip]

16. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

In art it should be repeated over and over.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Not just rock concerts...

You have no idea how often I see tourists in national parks, etc., taking "grand landscape" photos, in broad daylight, with the flash on.

(As to his other peeves, I would complain about his "wide angle shots turned vertically." I've seen lots of good shots taken that way.)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. yeah, that one is a little bit a strech

for people, in general, I agree, but we waterfallers know better, don't we?

[Mugu]

11. I always enjoy it when I see people taking fireworks photos with the flash on.

[alfredo]

13. I always forget on the first shot, the second will not have a flash.

[Celebration]

12. on my pocket camera

The flash comes on automatically, LOL. Yes, you can turn it off but you have to remember. I've taken many a decent broad landscape with that flash on.

:rofl:

[alfredo]

14. Yeah, that's the problem with automatic settings.

[priller]

18. Yeah, I know that's why

And most digicams don't let you turn it off, so that one, while amusing, doesn't really bother me.

[priller]

17. That's a pretty good list!

Thanks for pointing it out. I have to agree with most of them, especially HDR. It doesn't need to go away, but it is overused. I kind of like the vertical wide-angle myself, so I'll disagree on that one, and it's not one you really see too often. I do a lot of architectural photos and it works pretty well there:

[alfredo]

20. I see no distortion. It looks fine to me. I have a few skyline images, but

the server holding them is acting up.

It's working now.

[NashVegas]

21. I Vehemently Disagree With Their Take On Watermarking

For one thing, if it's coming from Wired's photo department, it's coming from Wired's PAID photo department, who have the ability to use Wired's legal department if anyone swipes their work and re-publishes without credit or worse, uses it in an ad.


Watermarking can and should be subtle, however.

Most of the list is fine, but there're some are just pure snottiness. That's one.