10 Things I Hate About Photography

[Iguanasan]

I found this interesting and amusing: 10 things I hate about photography | ADIDAP (http://www.adidap.com/2011/04/05/10-things-i-hate-about-photography/)

[asnow]

So true. I think I can relate to all of them.

[Wicked Dark]

eh, I'm cranky today (still have this frigging cold) and I think this guy's perspective is off. he takes things too seriously and makes something out of nothing. the off limits thing I can see, but depressing? too expensive? traps he willingly falls into it seems to me. time consuming? conflicted for nothing. color managment? seriously. color management. I think he had 9 things and couldn't find a 10th.

oh and get off my lawn!

[Iguanasan]

My, my. I hope you are feeling better soon. The rest of us might not survive otherwise. :laugh:

I identified with most of what he said though to varying degrees. I also think you are right, I'm sure he stretched to make sure he had 10. :headslap:

[Wicked Dark]

oh that was nothing.

see, I don't understand the people who have a hobby and then bitch about it. Stop doing it if it's so awful. No I don't think everything is perfect, but if you get into something you have to take the 'good' with the 'bad'. It's all perception. Cost of storage? Really? That's what's getting you down? Shoot film. Oh wait, that costs money, too. Gee, really? This isn't free? Oy vey. People like him just suck the air out of a room and I got enough of that already, I don't need him to kill the joy of photography, too. No one's forcing anyone to do it so cut the crap.

yeah, I'm cranky, but it's stuff like this that makes me nutty. It's a HOBBY. Love it or leave it. It's fun. Can't anyone remember fun anymore?

Ok. I'll stop.

[Iguanasan]

oh that was nothing.

see, I don't understand the people who have a hobby and then bitch about it. Stop doing it if it's so awful. No I don't think everything is perfect, but if you get into something you have to take the 'good' with the 'bad'. It's all perception. Cost of storage? Really? That's what's getting you down? Shoot film. Oh wait, that costs money, too. Gee, really? This isn't free? Oy vey. People like him just suck the air out of a room and I got enough of that already, I don't need him to kill the joy of photography, too. No one's forcing anyone to do it so cut the crap.

yeah, I'm cranky, but it's stuff like this that makes me nutty. It's a HOBBY. Love it or leave it. It's fun. Can't anyone remember fun anymore?

Ok. I'll stop.

Hehehehehe... Nice! I totally agree with you as well. People like to complain. It seems to be part of the human experience. :wall-an:

[Wicked Dark]

I'm mostly better now. I did 4 miles and only had one hacking coughing fit. See...that's positive! Oh and I wrote a rebuttal - http://wickeddarkphotography.com/2011/04/14/10-things-i-love-about-photography/

[JAS_Photo]

I think it was meant to be taken in the spirit of humour, and as such I think we can all relate to each of his points. It is a sort of "Don't you hate it when" thing. Don't you hate it when you notice a particularly beautiful scene and you are dreaming about what great photo it would make, but someone honks and jars you out of your reveille? Don't you hate that? (It's not the dreaming you hate it's the being woken part, you hate.) ;) As for colour mangement, if you do a lot of printing, then yeah it can be a bit of a *B* and I don't know how many times I have loaded a photo on the web in RGB colour space and then had to delete it and replace it with a photo converted to sRGB because I forgot to convert it and the colours were all wrong. :( :shrug:

[Wicked Dark]

you have a point, but I said I was crabby, didn't I? ;)

[Mad Aussie]

Cranky or not, your 10 things you love about photography are well thought out and expressed.

[asnow]

Thanks WD for your 10 things you love about photography. I was also having a cranky day and reading your list has made me feel much better.

[Wicked Dark]

thanks guys. I'm amazed I was so coherent so early. And on cold meds to boot!

[Mad Aussie]

thanks guys. I'm amazed I was so coherent so early. And on cold meds to boot!
Don't get us wrong ... you still need to double those meds and get more sleep!! ;)

[Wicked Dark]

I ran four miles then took a nap. does that count?

[Mad Aussie]

I ran four miles then took a nap. does that count?
As long as you didn't kick anybody in the cods along the way.

[Wicked Dark]

newp.

[Iguanasan]

Nice blog post, WD!

[AcadieLibre]

Not sure there is anything about photography I dislike since most of his points I cannot relate to except the equipment one. Now the things Wicked loves about photography I can relate to a few more of those.

[casil403]

Love your rebuttal WD! :thumbup: Feel better soon...I just got over a horrible virus that forced me to take 8 days off work! :(

[Wicked Dark]

thanks guys. today I got out and went to a new to me nature preserve. Only had 2 coughing fits, so I think I'm on the mend.

[Bambi]

thanks guys. today I got out and went to a new to me nature preserve. Only had 2 coughing fits, so I think I'm on the mend.

yay!!!

[Mad Aussie]

Love your rebuttal WD! :thumbup: Feel better soon...I just got over a horrible virus that forced me to take 8 days off work! :(
So men can walk in the parks again without fear of an attack to their plums with your foot?

[Bambi]

So men can walk in the parks again without fear of an attack to their plums with your foot?

now now. don't carried away..... :evil2:

[Mad Aussie]

now now. don't carried away..... :evil2:
Yeh ... I get the feeling men aren't safe even when she's well ;)

[Bambi]

Yeh ... I get the feeling men aren't safe even when she's well ;)

lol if they behave I am sure that they are fine. ;)

[Wicked Dark]

funny how men are fixated on their privates. kicking anyone in the nads never even occurs to me, but yet men can't stop thinking about it. men are weird. ;P

[Mad Aussie]

funny how men are fixated on their privates.
Well ... you know the definition for humans ... a life support system for our privates. ;)

[casil403]

So men can walk in the parks again without fear of an attack to their plums with your foot?

Only a couple of men I know would have their plums at risk...sick or not....a shot in the toolkit would be well deserved!:D