My pet peeves as a photographer!

Hiya!

I was talking to my friend Sarah the other day about pet hates and cringey things like that and it got me thinking, what are my pet hates. As an individual I can't name any, however as a photographer I can name so many! So here are my pet hates... Photography related! 

1.) Using #Photographer in an image caption on Instagram because you put a filter over it. 

This genuinely boils my blood, not gonna lie. People take pictures of landscapes or pretty places or things and upload it onto Instagram with a filter which sometimes ruin the image, then posts the image using the hashtag "photographer". Seems pretty harmless, right? Calling yourself a photographer you'd know the technical meanings and settings on a camera for example Apperature, ISO, Shutter Spead etc, you'd also gone through some kind of training? I've been training for atleast 4 nearly 5 years now in photography and I've still got about 6 years till I'm 110% fully qualified. So just because you took a good picture doesn't mean you're instantly a fully qualified photographer. First rant over

2.) When clients ask you "Can you make me look pretty?".

Yes, I maybe the photographer but you are who you are and I can't change that. I can use a blemish tool on photoshop to blend in any blemishes on your body, I can make you look skinnier but I can't physically make you look a different person.

3.) The megapixel discussion! 

I seriously am no camera technician, but all I know is when I'm asked this you don't care, but I care because I need to know if it takes pictures. We care a lot about pictures. Our pictures. 

4.) When someone critiques your work who doesn't have any knowledge of photography. 

Being a photographer you like to show off your work, either that being in an exhibition of gallery, social media or something else. You are the mother of your work, you created your work and gave birth to it. You're extremely proud of your work, then this nobody comes in and shoots you down with an airrifle of a gob- they haven't even looked at the name or caption of your piece, they haven't even looked at it for more than a second!  "I don't like it it's......". Criticism is valuable but when something about your work is blatantly obvious and is about that you have to understand and consider it before critiquing it.

Rants over. 

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