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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 11:34 AM
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10 Photography Pet Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole
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.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 11:39 AM
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1. My favorite: The Arm’s Length Self-Portrait
And a fine example they used, too. Creepy, that guy. :rofl:
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 12:20 PM
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2. Maybe we should do a bad photo contest.
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:19 PM
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7. Finally, a theme that's right in my wheelhouse!
;-)

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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:43 PM
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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.
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Mugu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:09 PM
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10. Now that's a contest that I have a whole hard drive full of possible winners.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:29 PM
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15. I've got lots of those...
It might actually be a good challenge.
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Johnny Noshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 04:46 AM
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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.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 12:50 PM
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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
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 12:54 PM
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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
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 03:48 PM
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9. When it comes down to it, if you take a picture and like it. That's enough.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:31 PM
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16. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
In art it should be repeated over and over.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 01:48 PM
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5. Not just rock concerts...
Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 01:48 PM by regnaD kciN
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.)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:12 PM
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6. yeah, that one is a little bit a strech
for people, in general, I agree, but we waterfallers know better, don't we?
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Mugu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:12 PM
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11. I always enjoy it when I see people taking fireworks photos with the flash on.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 07:16 PM
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13. I always forget on the first shot, the second will not have a flash.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:58 PM
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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:

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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 08:47 PM
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14. Yeah, that's the problem with automatic settings.
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priller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 12:26 PM
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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.
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priller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 12:25 PM
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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:
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:37 PM
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20. I see no distortion. It looks fine to me. I have a few skyline images, but
Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 01:41 PM by alfredo
the server holding them is acting up.

It's working now.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 02:27 PM
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21. I Vehemently Disagree With Their Take On Watermarking
Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 02:29 PM by NashVegas
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.
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