March 1, 2009
Some sayings in photography are thrown out there so often that they’ve achieved a life of their own, and become truisms that are summarily accepted and then perpetuated.
Here they are - the 10 most annoying platitudes in photography …
Actually, I was going to name this post clichés in photography, but that would imply visual clichés. But tastes differ too widely, and I wouldn’t want to be the Style Police and dictate to other photographers which subjects and approaches are deemed cool. Besides, I think the world could always use more photos of pretty girls sitting on train tracks.
So here they are – things that make me grind my teeth:
1. ”you have to know the rules to break the rules”
2. “the camera is only a tool” / ”it’s the photographer, not the camera”
3. ”zoom with your feet”
4. either / or debates
5. circular reasoning in order to rationalise something
6. “fake it until you make it” / ”but everyone started somewhere”
7. the superiority of film because of some mystical qualities
8. B&W = art
9. ambient light purists
10. “don’t worry how it looks now, just fix it in Photoshop later”
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July 15, 2008
Photographers are more and more becoming the target for scammers and con artists. The latest trick for them is to book the photographer for a date, and then pay via bank guaranteed check or via credit card. The scam comes into play in that they over-pay, and then ask for a refund of that portion of the money. The bank guaranteed check of course is fake, or the credit card they used is stolen. And the end result is that the photographer who is naive enough to fall for this, is out of pocket by whatever amount they refunded to the scammers.
Here’s an example of an email I received last week:
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August 13, 2007
There have been many reports on the forums on the softness of the images on the preview LCD of the Canon 1Dmk3. Well, I couldn’t really tell with this on my LCD display …
Yup. Within about 200 frames into that first shoot with this fresh-out-of-the-box camera, it died on me with chronic error 99 lock-ups. The camera would lock up on every alternate time the shutter was tripped.
To Canon USA’s credit, they repaired the camera in a super-fast turn-around time of 24 hours.
Other than that, I absolutely love this camera. No, seriously. It is a fantastic machine.
If only it would work like it should.
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