Pet Peeves while shooting? Pro & Hobby

[sallymack]

Oh, yeah, the mule issue! Thanks, Ed. I've frequently considered getting one but decided it would create an entirely new

set of problems, possibly worse than lugging all that stuff around.<br>

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I ignore the film-is-stupid comments, just like I ignore the boring "I take a whole bunch of shots and just delete the ones I

don't like" comments.

[manuel barrera houston,]

<p>When I invite my spouse and every ten minutes after we get there, "Are we going home now."</p>

[luke_kaven]

<p>Portrait subjects whose wives tell them to apply hair gel before they leave home (after I asked them not to).</p>

[gordonjb]

<p>I'm with Ton on this one, life's too short to fixate on the negative. When I'm out shooting I am thankful for the time being available. I find a work-around for any obstacles that come my way. I don't like having to contend with wind when shooting macro of flowers so I rise in the morning before the wind does. Simple problem , simple solution.</p>

[kent_hilburn]

<p>Trash</p>

[sarah_fox]

<p>people posing and smiling at my camera</p>

<p>people complaining that I've taken too many shots and trying to hurry me along</p>

[chelsea]

<p>People like Ton and Gordon who are relaxed and easy-going and tell us to chill. I want to smack 'em. I'm irritated and want to bitch, dammit! Let me jump up and down and stomp my foot and yell and throw my little temper tantrum! ;-)</p>

<p>Whole buncha my peeves are already up there: wind, when I've hiked a ways, finally find something, all puffed and tired and glasses steam up, find something neat, shoot it, find out later hadn't reset the exposure button, wind, people walking up and scaring something I've spent 10 minutes crawling across the ground to sneak up on with macro lens, wind, mosquitoes, drive by something good and can't stop to shoot, inconsiderate people, and another gust of wind.</p>

<p>Other frustrations involve shooting from a boat. You paddle out on a quiet morning, work your way over to the loons, they come up close, and there's that bit of breeze. Or you're leaning out of the flat old rowboat, you've jammed your rigged up boat stabilizer into the mud, lean out, just get that rose pogonia in focus and...swingggg goes the boat. Things I do myself, like forgetting to clean lenses when getting back from an outing. I almost always remember to charge the batteries, but the lenses keep that rain splot or dust til I'm sitting in the bush trying to pull out one of those cleaning papers. Cleaning papers! What sadistic person designed those packets? And someone mentioned lights at night. You've just got your eyes focused to the dark, have your little red-light to set your settings, and bang! someone shines a flashlight in your eyes.</p>

<p>And oh yeah, wind.</p>

[rapyke]

<p>Inconsiderate people...</p><div></div>

[ronald_olsen]

<p>3 hours setting up the flashes in -30 weather, & the steam locomotive driver shutting off the throttle 50 meters before hitting my spot.</p>

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[hjoseph7]

12 Noon to 3 PM. You can't get decent shot around that time unless your subject is in the shade, or you are carrying bulky lighting equipment.

[dankapsner]

<p>Damned cameras!</p>

[Christopher Sperry Photogr]

<p>Narrow, winding, hilly, 70mph two lane secondary highways, with no shoulder, no place to turn around, camera on the seat, and beautiful scenery flying by. All in the neighborhood outside of Glacier National Park. A motorcycle seems to be the best solution:</p>

<p>http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/photopages/photosparisdakar.htm</p>

[bmm]

<p>I'm with the guys that say forgetting to change settings. To me that is annoying and I need to be more disciplined and remember before each shoot. The rest - weather, dogs, people - is just life in all its glory.</p>

[KenPapai]

<p>1. If anyone (I don't know) wants to discuss cameras while I am shooting<br>

2. "Serious" shooters outdoors in sunny days without lens hoods.<br>

3. Ultrazooms (more than 4:1 ratio)<br>

4. Canon Rebels<br>

5. Cheap kit lenses<br>

6. Never being paid enough</p>

[gordonjb]

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<p>People like Ton and Gordon who are relaxed and easy-going and tell us to chill. I want to smack 'em.</p>

 

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<p>You will note Rose-Marie that I used the first person singular in my original post. I would not presume to tell others to " chill " <br>

If you can manage to get irritated in the presence of Rose Pogonias that's fine by me. I find photographing native orchids calming -- but hey that's just me.</p>

[john_jennings2]

<p>Telephone poles. Bird droppings on windshield. Telephone poles. Shuttter lag. Telephone poles. Shutter lag. REDRUM. REDRUM. REDRUM. Shutter lag. Telephone poles. Shutter lag.</p>

[marcantel]

<p>Those dam reading glasses.</p>

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[marcantel]

<p>The heat in south Louisiana.</p>

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[daniel flather]

<p>1) <em>Hurry up. </em><br /> 2) <em>Hurry up, I'm cold </em><br /> 3) <em>Hurry up, this is dumb. </em></p>

[john_jennings2]

<p>Will you shoot the cousin's wedding? Here's five bucks for film and develloping.</p>

[gregory_c]

<p>White balance,,,</p>

[karenf]

<p>black dogs, also black and white dogs, also black dogs with white dogs, also the inevitability of all of these combinations. but i still love 'em.</p>

[cmphoto]

<p>Someone telling me what I <em>should</em> take a "picture" of...</p>

[walter_strong5]

<p>Some high school dropout in a pickup truck with "SECURITY" on the door rolling up to me when I'm shooting in a public place wanting to know "What do you think you're doing."</p>