Can we have a photography pet peeve thread? I cannot stand it

>>2909436

"wow thats incredible, i need to go here"

>every mong on instagram

Pretty obvious one but overused HDR really kills me. Not just the hilariously blatant and terrible stuff with halos around everything. There's also a lot of stuff out there that uses it as a crutch and it makes the photographs look really garish in my opinion.

For example, I saw a ton of people on reddit raving about Tom Anderson (guy who made myspace) being a "great" photographer now and all his pictures are really overprocessed and unnatural looking.

Here's his instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/myspacetom/?hl=en

I mean I literally didn't see a single person on reddit saying something other than how amazing these photos are. It irked me pretty bad.

>>2909479

majority of his photos are very good

at least he is good at HDR, would rather see his stuff than some of the awful shit amateurs churn out

>>2909479
>go to link
>nothing too over the top
>some are really good

???

>>2909500
Niggas gonna hate for whatever reason

>>2909483
>>2909500
>>2909509
well it's a pet peeve thread. I was saying his *aren't* over the top, but I still personally dislike the "look" of the photos

>>2909483
>https://www.instagram.com/myspacetom/?hl=en
Good photos spoiled by ugly processing.

Even worse is all the retarded time-lapse shit that's floating around at the moment, particularly otherwise boring landscapes that are justified because of formula one clouds.

And pretty well anything else that uses a shitty effect or memetool in place of an interesting subject.

>>2909500
>>2909509

I kind of agree with >>2909479

this anon.....a little too polished for my taste. They are pretty fucking good, I won't lie. But they lack.....a style I suppose....they are "too perfect" as retarded as that sounds. Perhaps lacking originality.

Still damn damn good though.

>>2909479
Tbh it's good to see him doing what he loves and not taking himself too seriously

I like looking at a few HDR shots once in a while, but honestly some of the things people do to their perfectly okay photographs are kind of horrible

>>2909436

>watermark
this is one of my pet peeve

>>2909738
But you'd totally make it your own without it

>implying someone wants it to begin with

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Instagram photographers that post super dramatic curve cityscapes and their friends vaping.

>>2909774
>instagram
Stop right there, that's all that needs to be said.

>>2909479
But, anon, he is actually good?!?

>>2909479
Some of these are really nice and the processing in most is not unpleasant.

The ONE thing that bothers me is the square format. I don't think it's helping most of these. He clearly shot them on a non-phone camera to, which means they were originally done in 2:3. IMO they'd look better as 2:3 or 4:5 uploaded to a website like Flickr (1TB free space) where you can view them larger.

>>2909919
> like Flickr (1TB free space) where you can view them larger.
Wow, fuck off stupid ad cuck, kys...