Confession time: What photographic thing do you like that you are not proud of?

Max Iso · Sep 7, 2020

Could be anything, a type of lens, a photo genre, a type of processing (tone mapping ect), ect. For me, it's become a cartoon filter that's on my Olympus. Im very much a raw shooter, although i sometimes use jpegs if i like the color better and don't need raw latitude. But i find some shots look boring and mundane with normal processing, yet i like them with the cartoon filter (called Key Line in my camera).

Here's a handful samples of shots i kept with the filter, feel free to share examples of your dark secret.

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TomOG · Sep 7, 2020

Those photos are... interesting! You're right, at least they make some otherwise mundane shots stand out!

Myself, I've definitely been guilty of over-using the Clarity and Dehaze sliders in Lightroom, but am trying to wean myself off them... I think this is a common affliction though!

jimhughes · Sep 7, 2020

The faded film look.

"Rest Stop"

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Tony D · Sep 7, 2020

Hanging out here

Howard V · Sep 7, 2020

They are an easy way toward the same settings I would probably want anyway. They also do subtle touches to color, tonal scale, etc. that make them better in a number of ways than more manual modes, unless I take quite a bit of time in post.

JackM · Sep 7, 2020

Ken Rockwell.

jeffnles1 · Sep 7, 2020

I'm going to be a curmudgeon here. There are things I've tried and didn't like and things I've tried that I liked. Bottom line, if I like it, I'm not embarrassed by it. I'm 60 years old and gave up trying to please other people a very long time ago. I live each day for me now and that has made a lot of difference in my photography. I focus on wildlife and nature photography and it is more about the quality of the experience than the quality of the photo.

digitallollygag · Sep 7, 2020

Chimping. I come from the film era, so you'd think I'd have no use for chimping, but it's an addiction I enjoy, and I'm not proud to admit I do it.

OldSchoolNewSchool · Sep 7, 2020

Hand-held HDR shots. I like the simplicity of not dragging out the tripod, so I usually hand hold the camera for the three HDR shots. I know using the tripod is the "right" way, but I prefer hand-holding the camera since I am a bit lazy. Does that make me bad?

Howard V · Sep 8, 2020

OldSchoolNewSchool said:
Hand-held HDR shots. I like the simplicity of not dragging out the tripod, so I usually hand hold the camera for the three HDR shots. I know using the tripod is the "right" way, but I prefer hand-holding the camera since I am a bit lazy. Does that make me bad?

Then we must both be bad, because I do it all the time. My tripod has been in the basement since the early nineties

richiebee · Sep 8, 2020

XQD cards. They get a rough go of it, but I like them.

Also, I don't like the cinematic, matte feel shadow crushing blue colour grading look, and feel as though I should because everyone else seems to.

JackM · Sep 8, 2020

A couple things wrong with this: you lose a little of the picture to cropping, and, you’ll need to use high ISO indoors or in low-ish light.

jimhughes · Sep 8, 2020

Papa48 said:
OldSchoolNewSchool said:

Hand-held HDR shots. I like the simplicity of not dragging out the tripod, so I usually hand hold the camera for the three HDR shots. I know using the tripod is the "right" way, but I prefer hand-holding the camera since I am a bit lazy. Does that make me bad?

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Then we must both be bad, because I do it all the time. My tripod has been in the basement since the early nineties

Software today can align multiple handheld images pretty well.

tbcass · Sep 8, 2020

Strange question. If I like it I feel no need to be not proud of it.

Smaug01 · Sep 8, 2020

I'm an Olympus shooter too. I could easily shoot in RAW, then be able to apply any filter I want later. But when the time comes, I just don't think about it. I set it to 'Vivid', P (most of the time) and shoot away.

Olympus' JPG engine nails it almost every time, so I take the lazy way.

I could get slightly better shots if I shot raw, but I just don't want to put the time into editing any more. I find that when I'm in the mood to edit, I'd rather just shoot film and do the editing of the scanned JPG there.

Side note: Lately, I've been noticing that, even in P and with native lenses, it tries to set a shutter speed high enough to use the 1/focal length trick, rather than letting itself take full advantage of the IBIS, so I've been using Shutter Priority a lot more for low light photos...

Edit: Great thread!

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Smaug01 · Sep 8, 2020

Tony D said:
Hanging out here

Haha, me too!

Before I was a mod, it was a guilty pleasure to hang out and read here.

Now, it is an unpaid job, and I sometimes take pleasure in posting. However, I no longer feel guilty, as I can more directly help keep the place civil.

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Smaug01 · Sep 8, 2020

If we wanted to do it The Hard Way, we might still shoot film. (I know, some of us do...)

OldSchoolNewSchool said:
Hand-held HDR shots. I like the simplicity of not dragging out the tripod, so I usually hand hold the camera for the three HDR shots. I know using the tripod is the "right" way, but I prefer hand-holding the camera since I am a bit lazy. Does that make me bad?

Lee Jay · Sep 8, 2020

tbcass said:
Strange question. If I like it I feel no need to be not proud of it.

This.

tony field · Sep 8, 2020

About 5 years ago I became quite fascinated by composite images. Learning Photoshop details of doing such work was most interesting however it start to feel like I was spending more time in front of the computer than actually taking photographs. I eventually decided that this was a waste of time since the resulting images were quite lackluster. For all the effort I eventually came up with maybe two images that I actually like.

This is one of the images that I personally put into my reject series

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BrentSchumer · Sep 8, 2020

Gear fascination. I know it distracts from honing my photographic chops, but I've always been a geek who enjoys fawning over technology.

If I spent half the time I used on these forums to review fine art and read art composition books, I would be a much better photographer.

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