The software most modern cameras use to communicate to the web, local networks etc. So far behind modern mobile phones…

I bought a camera to photograph stuff, but I can’t figure out what to photograph. I used to sit on my deck and photograph vape bottles and stuff.

Photographers who sell courses on how to get clients and build your business but they don’t actually have many clients, just a large social media presence.

Photographers who use skin smoothing that looks obvious, especially some of the recent AI skin smoothing. It seems to replace people’s skin with a texture that looks like some kind of “skin grain” and it’s so obvious because no one really looks like that. It also sets unrealistic standards and makes everything look fake and uncanny. I hate it so much. I resist the urge to call people out on social media when I see it (barely resist)

Photographers who get a ton of clients and they miss basic composition: cutting off body parts, Dutch angle, weird framing, etc.

Also when people hold the lens on the top instead of underneath.

Customers ghosting me after my response to their inquiry

Landscapes that are not level and or shot in portrait orientation drive me bonkers.

I have a few.

1. People with no discernible talent deciding that they’re important enough to teach “workshops” and “seminars”. Don’t misunderstand: there are people I would happily learn from, but they probably constitute 5% of the photographers out there who have the hubris to think that they have what it takes to tell other people how to shoot.

2. People who pass AI generated art off as photography. AI generated art is a fascinating subject in itself, and should be treated entirely separately from photography.

3. Brand tribalism. It’s pathetic and sad.

4. People who try to “buy skill”. I remember this guy who had a photography themed blog for a while. He was clearly extremely wealthy (nothing wrong with that in and of itself), and he seemed to be of the opinion that if you have very expensive cameras and lenses, your photos will be amazing (he owned several Leica M rangefinders and the Noctilux 0.95). His own photos did an excellent job at disproving his theory.

the phrase “I am new to the photography game.”

People who think working with photographers is like working with someone who take pictures on their phones.

Had a client who ordered me to take 40 photos of an event and was mad that I only delivered 40 photos. She complained that she knew I took more photos at the event and I should just send them over for free.

“My phone does the same thing!”

In the past I dealt with a surprising amount of photographers who go out of their way to shit on novice photographers. Everyone was a beginner once.