We can all agree on this one. It really annoys the shit out of me.

Hamster_Huey · 1 year

Hurr Durr, I'm a photographer.

FoolsRun · 1 year

Relevant

BTT2 · 1 year

Every guy who can quote family guy thinks he's a comedian, "ooo, you said 'Roadhouse' at a random time"

jeffreywithonef · 1 year

Every girl that goes through a photography phase seems to have pictures of her own feet

Mr_Big_Stuff · 1 year

Do I qualify as a photographer now?

burgerboy426 · 1 year

Goddamnit. I'm the worst.

jrfish · 1 year

I studied photography and worked as a professional photo editor in the music industry (working with major label bands, not like "working" for friends' bands) until I quit last year to go back to school. What sucks about working in the industry is that I used to never want to tell anyone what I did for work because I was afraid of people judging me as just another girl who thinks she's a "photographer". At the same time, I have so many non-photographer friends who buy expensive cameras and think they're photographers. I never know what to say to them when they show me their lawnchair pics because I don't want to lie and tell them their photos look good, but at the same time, I don't want to sound pretentious by pointing out their poor composition, lighting, etc. I encounter this on pretty much a weekly basis. It's the most uncomfortable feeling to me.

Edit: it's especially uncomfortable now that many of my new friends dont know what I used to do for a living. If I critique their photos, I'm afraid of people thinking "who does she think she is?". If I explain what I used to do, I sound pretentious. If I don't say anything, I have to lie and ooo and ahh at their photos like everyone else.

I'm a bit socially awkward and can't do things like dance. I assume my friends who are good at dancing view me when i try to dance the same way I view them when they try to take pictures. I can certainly understand wanting so badly to be good at something, but just simply not being able to be. If someone criticized my dancing, something that I'm very self conscious about, I would feel bad. I wouldn't want to make anyone feel like that about their photos.

Edit #2: why won't reddit let me make paragraphs today?

foreverchamone · 1 year

i knew a girl who passed her photography class by doing this, 15 minutes before class she would snap a quick black and white photo.

MoarVespenegas · 1 year

Unfortunately this is not limited to only hot girls.

foreverchamone · 1 year

i love the episode where they put a 5 minute song in the middle of it because they didnt have any jokes.

blissonabluebike · 1 year

Is this really a female thing? I feel like I personally know more dudes with this habit than girls. Also unclear on what being hot has to do with it.

[deleted] · 1 year

I actually enjoy photos of lawn chairs. If you tape pointy paper teeth between the front and rear legs then kick it over it looks like the head of an angry t-rex.

Moofies · 1 year

black and white films makes you an instant professional. this is known.

Telepodest · 1 year

How are they supposed to get better if they don't practice?

snipsnip · 1 year

What does this have to do with being a hot girl?

[deleted] · 1 year

That reposts of unfunny Family Guy jokes are frontpage material?

gospelwut · 1 year

It seems like a contradiction for Family Guy to be in sub-reddit called funny.

NonPermissive · 1 year

Every month-old redditor who uses StumbleUpon thinks they have a source for new content.

Ooh, you reposted a Family Guy image macro

oomskaap · 1 year

polaroid app on my iphone, c'mon hipsters, sing with me.

matchstiq · 1 year

We're all photographers. The problem is, and always has been, hipsters.

WhyDoIHaveToSayThis · 1 year

We can all agree? I think not. Why would I want to invest my emotional energy caring about some random women taking photos for her own satisfaction?

ame-foto · 1 year

It annoys me, because I'm an actual photographer, and a female. The shutter happy bimbos make ALL female photographers look bad.

brandoncoal · 1 year

Reposting old jokes that were kind of funny the first ten dozen times we read them but are now tired and dull? Yeah that really annoys the shit out of me.

zenlike · 1 year

What the fuck? People can't enjoy photography now unless they're professionals?

CapNRoddy · 1 year

What's annoying? Reposts? People who post stills of a TV show with captions of what was said on that TV show rather than a video clip?

SarcasmOD · 1 year

Clearly you have not been alive very long if you think everyone can agree on anything.

sideshow_em · 1 year

Wow, is this really something only girls are guilty of? Because I know a few guys who are self-proclaimed "photographers".

lonlonlon · 1 year

I see a lot of shit photographs by 'photographers' on facebook. They buy $3000 dSLRs:

1 - Take random shots. 2 - Oh great, fucking high depth of field, looks cool. 3 - Open photoshop, change to black&white, Increase contrast. 4 - Add vignette effect, Add personal logo 5 - Posts it on facebook. 6 - lotsa 'Likes' from various friends whereas real photography gets ignored.

Pisses me off every fucking time.

saraoflaherty · 1 year

If I had a dollar for every pic I've seen on FB of the side of someone's coffee cup I'd be rich.

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chochazel · 1 year

Can we all agree on this? Everyone who takes a photograph is a photographer. That's what the word means, "a person who makes photographs." Just like everyone who drives is a driver.

Who made you lord of all suffixes anyway? They may not be a professional photographer, you may not think they're a good photographer, but we can at least agree the basic reality that they are taking actual photographs and are people!

theimben · 1 year

What a shame your friends don't meet your high expectations with their hobbies, they should just give up.

Mustard_Dip · 1 year

By professional standards, what are some examples of good photography? What are some examples of amateur photography? I've seen a lot of people complain about this, so I'd like to have a concrete understanding of the issue.

[deleted] · 1 year

I think it's dumb to judge them though, it's a funny joke when family guy did it but I feel like you are serious.

What's wrong with hobby or "just for the hell of it" photography? I take mostly macro photographs and have no intention of ever selling anything. So what if someone likes to just take artsy/hipster black and white? That's their preference and what they personally think is art.

Mallack · 1 year

This is my sister, she thinks because she got a 20$ digital camera she is now a photographer.

jdquinn · 1 year

You are not a photographer.

TwoKi11 · 1 year

I don't get it, are you hating on girls with a hobby? It is pretty easy to tell the difference between someone who just likes photography and someone who actually wants to be a photographer.

SpacePyro · 1 year

I hate it when girls take pictures for other people (for like senior pictures in high school, or some other unimportant event) and then plaster watermarks of their name + the word 'photography' for everyone to see. Just because you own a Canon EOS Rebel does not mean you are an instant photographer. The most common thing I see in such 'photographers' is taking pictures, uploading them to their computer, opening Photoshop, and setting the contrast to 100. Then adding some shitty watermark like 'HERP DERP PHOTOGRAPHY' and then posting it on Facebook. It's sad, because there are actual people I know who think are expert photographers because of this.

Pootytang001 · 1 year

I stayed with Digg for a long time out of loyalty and some laziness, but when somebody posted a Family Guy screen cap, I decided I was done with it forever. Let's never go down this road again.

Marxshmarx · 1 year

No, I disagree. This annoys the shit out of me. If people taking faux-artsy photographs annoy you, you need to get a fucking life.

jaciilyn · 1 year

This may go against the hivemind, but why the fuck do people care?

If someone enjoys it and it makes them happy, where is that wrong? You don't have to look at it and you don't have to acknowledge it.

allintensivepurposes · 1 year

The absolute worst is when they take a photo of themselves in the mirror, making sure we see them and the D40 they're holding.

Zealously · 1 year

I know several all over Facebook.

Sad thing is, one of them got a tat of a vintage camera on her back. Poor confused hot girl.

diablo75 · 1 year

I went to a vocational school for a couple years to get a degree in computer repair and networking, and there were a couple of occasions where we were asked to help move some computers around in the photography class. I don't know if this is a stereotype for photography classes, but it seemed to be taught by a gay man and attended by mostly hot chicks.

[deleted] · 1 year

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Quaye-Photography/152525391699 THIS.

CheechooChum · 1 year

Relevant satire of such techniques

unridiculous · 1 year

why on earth make the 'hot girl' distinction?

but of course! for the numerous self-proclaimed photogs who're male it's a skilled craft. and those ugly women (cannot...compute...) make up for their looks with natural talent.

you all suck.

gill_outean · 1 year

Yep, that's pretty much how he said it on the show.

magister0 · 1 year

Where do these pictures come from? These screenshots of scenes from TV shows always use the same font.

probablynotyou · 1 year

Yes I met a girl like this once, she literally took the worst pictures and put them all over her blogs and then flickr and called herself a photographer. She bought expensive photography equipment and apple laptops and her pictures still looked like ordinary pictures. She even started buying artistic lenses and taking pictures of blades of grass and the sky. That is fine, to want to take pictures of that stuff and even if you want to spend the money on it as a hobby but she was trying to convince people she should be their wedding photographer and everything. 8 years later she is still claiming to be a photographer, but she only uses her iphone and instagram filters now.

ChewyIsThatU · 1 year

The same can be said for 99% of all photographers.

brokenfallacy · 1 year

What about ugly guys? They get upvotes, amirite?

sama102 · 1 year

Ha, yeah! God forbid people try and create art, damn

funny

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