Please feel free to add to the list. I'll get things started:
- Referring to lenses as “glass”.
I have used the term "glass" as slang for lenses for as long as I have been invoved in photography and cinematography. I picked the term up from my elder mentors.
- Referring to film developing as “souping”.
ditto
- “Photography means nothing – it is life that interests me”, or something like that. With apologies to HCB, far and away my favorite photographer.
To each his own.
- The merits of shooting RAW v. JPEG. Digital, I know, but what is more boring than listening to such drivel?
Never bothered to listen.
- The merits of today’s FB v. RC papers. Seriously folks, does anyone actually think an RC print won’t archive as well, all else being equal?
Yes,
... me.
- Closet-gearheads who profess that the equipment really doesn’t matter.
Beyond what you need, it doesn't... and I have a shlode of equipment. Guess I'm a snob, or at least, I hope, annoying
- On Photography, by Susan Sontag.
- No-name photogs who think anyone would possibly want to dish out hundreds or thousands of dollars their “limited edition” prints. Check any issue of B&W for a reference.
My prints have sold pretty well when listed in B&W. Prices are what the market will bear, and the market always sorts it out, a total wack-a-mole to all posers and non-hackers. I certainly woudn't ridicule anyone with the tackle to try promoting themselves.... a far more proactive thing than most ever do. There is, however, no shortage of do-nothing wannabes on the internet who pot shot those who work hard for a little recognition and success, however modest that success might be. As a matter of fact, the more successful you get, the more you will be derided and or basically hassled by the fringe. The crabs in a bucket syndrome.
Limiting editions has increased sales, so affectation or not, the market spoke loud and clear on that point, as it always does.
- The idea that photographs must "say something". PLEASE. Most of the photographs I love most say nothing to me. I just like looking at them.
Again, to each his own. In regard to photography, I would not presume my experiences on an other, nor would I take anothers experience as a pointer to define what mine should be.
There are things that annoy me, and the monkeys vex me, but none of these things do.
- Referring to lenses as “glass”.
I have used the term "glass" as slang for lenses for as long as I have been invoved in photography and cinematography. I picked the term up from my elder mentors.
- Referring to film developing as “souping”.
ditto
- “Photography means nothing – it is life that interests me”, or something like that. With apologies to HCB, far and away my favorite photographer.
To each his own.
- The merits of shooting RAW v. JPEG. Digital, I know, but what is more boring than listening to such drivel?
Never bothered to listen.
- The merits of today’s FB v. RC papers. Seriously folks, does anyone actually think an RC print won’t archive as well, all else being equal?
Yes,
... me.
- Closet-gearheads who profess that the equipment really doesn’t matter.
Beyond what you need, it doesn't... and I have a shlode of equipment. Guess I'm a snob, or at least, I hope, annoying
- On Photography, by Susan Sontag.
- No-name photogs who think anyone would possibly want to dish out hundreds or thousands of dollars their “limited edition” prints. Check any issue of B&W for a reference.
My prints have sold pretty well when listed in B&W. Prices are what the market will bear, and the market always sorts it out, a total wack-a-mole to all posers and non-hackers. I certainly woudn't ridicule anyone with the tackle to try promoting themselves.... a far more proactive thing than most ever do. There is, however, no shortage of do-nothing wannabes on the internet who pot shot those who work hard for a little recognition and success, however modest that success might be. As a matter of fact, the more successful you get, the more you will be derided and or basically hassled by the fringe. The crabs in a bucket syndrome.
Limiting editions has increased sales, so affectation or not, the market spoke loud and clear on that point, as it always does.
- The idea that photographs must "say something". PLEASE. Most of the photographs I love most say nothing to me. I just like looking at them.
Again, to each his own. In regard to photography, I would not presume my experiences on an other, nor would I take anothers experience as a pointer to define what mine should be.
There are things that annoy me, and the monkeys vex me, but none of these things do.
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