To get irrationally annoyed by people who take crap photos?

[MeltedEasterEgg]

How is it possible to take such crap photos? I don't understand it at all.

A few years ago when I was 13 I was abroad in the canary islands when I "fell in love" with a waiter. You know what it's like at that age, you become obsessed with the object of your desire and it means SO MUCH to you.

So I got my mum to take a photo of me with the waiter. She took one and then said "oh, the flash wasn't on" and then took another one and said "Oh, that came out great!"

This was before the days of digital cameras of course.

So we gets home, I wait days, anxiously for these photos...when they arrive, I flick through quickly to find the one of me and waiter only to see that she had cut him off completely in the photo. HOW???? How on earth do you cock up a photo so badly? I was gutted!

But she does it all the time. I asked her to take a photos of my son in his school play as my camera had conked out. She did WITH A DIGITAL CAMERA and when we got home, DS's head was cut off.

Yesterday my auntie tried on her wedding dress and she wanted a photo of her stood near her father. My mum offered and when she took the photo, only half of my auntie was on it.

HOW? how is it even possible to take such shit photos? her hands are not shaky or anything so its not physical. Sometimes I swear she does it on purpose for attention.

[flightattendant19]

My Mum is exactly the same. I took a few of her when I had just had ds1, outside my house, the proud granny etc...she took some of me and they are ALL completely blurred

She is so bad at it I just don't understand!

[frazzledgirl]

My mum's pictures of her index finger, in various nice European locations, were a highlight of our holiday snaps for years

Have to say she's way better since going digital, though.

[Nancy66]

ha ha - my mum does that too. if anyone looked at our holiday snaps they'd think we were a family of headless torsos.

Makes me laugh though. I think the old saying about old dogs and new tricks is pertinent here...

[LynetteScavo]

I think it should be recoginised as an official disability.....it's really not their fault.

All of the photos from DH's childhood have the people on one side of the picture.

[fruitbeard]

Oh, this annoys me inordinately!! I used to be guilty of the 'everything on one side of the photo' but have got much better with practice (and digital technology!)

My sister and I were on hols in Turkey years ago, looking round Ephesus, we wanted a photo of us together, my sis (photo-wonk) insisted we find someone with a 'serious' camera around their neck so we'd get someone who knew what they were doing...

Yep, it came back with half her left side missing and our heads cut off....

[slightlycrumpled]

Hahaha, I confess I am a crap photo taker. Wish I wasn't I put it down to.....well I don't know what I put it down to actually, just crap finger action I guess!

[AllThreeWays]

Usually the main problem is that the person taking the picture pushes the button, therefore pushing the camera as the picture is taken.
Tell them to 'squeeze' the camera, ie. thumb is pushing up as index finger is pushing down.

[Gentle]

What about crap at even getting round to photos taker? There are so many lovely events in my life with no record of me being there. DH will only take a photo of me if I drag him to the side and say "Look, this is a bit special, can you PLEASE take a photo of me with my Grandma on her 90th birthday?"

And then it's crap.

[flightattendant19]

My father told me the single most useful thing I have ever learned about taking pics.

He said look through the little hole, and make sure the thing you want the picture OF is actually right in the middle, like it's a picture in a frame.

Ever since I started doing that they have been pretty good!

But I agree i think people panic, mum does certainly, she thinks she has to do it quick or the camera will get fed up waiting and refuse to work or something..

so she kind of almost gets the right shot then presses it so quick, whilst almost trying to run away from the scary camera, that the camera moves and it's crap.

You should see her driving.

[WorzselMummage]

Mil does this and the she puts them on the call

[DitaVonCheese]

flight, what on earth were you doing before using the viewfinder?

My gran managed to get her (disposable) camera completely the wrong way round at my Dbro's wedding and discharged the flash directly into her own eye three times before I noticed and corrected it

[flightattendant19]

Oh I was using the viewfinder, just not very, erm, carefully

I think I was about 13 when he told me so not too embarrassing...

[DitaVonCheese]

PMSL sorry thought you meant recently - kind of reminded me of my cousin's great tip for finding cheap car insurance (which was to phone more than one place)

[lottiebunny]

Mum always manages to make her shots blurry. Even after I got her a digital camera with anti-blur. She also still insists on looking through the little view finder rather than at the huge screen. Gah!

[BalloonSlayer]

I have practically no decent pictures with the DCs as DH always seems to do one of the following, or some of the following or all:

• not have his own camera so have to use mine which is more or less the same, nevertheless it is enough to confound him entirely

• when DS2 was born the photos were all blurry. Turned out DH had broken the lens of the camera. Somehow. The one in-focus picture we have of DS2's first two days (before he realised) only shows a large nipple clearly. (Mine, since you ask. Oh, you didn't.)

• while I am posing with a squiggly DC in nice location he goes, oh hang on, and turns the camera off instead of taking the picture.

• gets the zoom in/zoom away button confused with something else and starts swearing

• takes so long to press the shutter smallest DC is no longer smiling benevolently but screaming like a banshee.

• fails to zoom in so it's a lovely picture were we not all specks on the horizon

• does not point out one of the following: my hair is sticking up like Stan Laurel, my flies are undone, my nursing bra is clearly not done up one side resulting in severe titular imbalance, my top has rucked up showing three square miles of flabby stomach

I have lots of nice pictures of DH with the DCs however...

[Belgianchocolates]

Sounds like my mum. Not too long ago she took a family picture of us in a shopping centre: lots of background and my head + the dcs' heads (I'd squatted to their level) no bodies

My mum's famous for lots of sky/grass type of pictures. Or so far away you can't make out who is who pictures. Or finger in the way pictures,...

No one takes pictures in this household but me, so there are hardly any pictures in existence of me and the dcs. Lots of dh with the dcs though.

[DitaVonCheese]

Love titular imbalance

That reminds me that all our photos of DD and me in the delivery room are (a) very blurry and (b) only of DD and my tits. Not one of my firstborn child and my face (or DH for that matter). Gah.

[Simplysally]

My Mum is a specialist at the finger shot or headless torsos . What bugs me more is the assumption that (say) if I'm taking a pic of the Taj Mahal or a sunflower in the hedge, I want cheesy grins in front of it. I like taking photographs of things, not snaps sometimes.

[FluffyBunnyGoneBad]

My mum regularly takes pictures of her dog, the tree outside her house and the christmas tree. I refuse to look at them now.

[allytjd]

Well my Mum is actually very good at taking photos so we entrusted her to take the pictures of me and DS1 in hospital, she took loads on her SLR only to discover later on that she had been so excited about first grandchild that she had forgotten to put a film in!

[DebiTheScot]

Oh I'm so glad its not just me. I get annoyed when people upload ALL their photos onto things like facebook without checking them first and deleting all the ones that are out of focus/ photo of the floor/ no flash/ no heads on any people etc etc

In our honeymoon photo album there is only 1 picture of me (and I'm miles away in the photo) as anytime dh tried to take a photo of me it was either fuzzy or headless or if I was really lucky- both!

[JammyQueenOfTheSewers]

What gets to me is when people don't edit out the really really awful ones before they show you/put them on facebook. Having to look through 50 awful ones to see 2 (half) decent ones really winds me up!

[JammyQueenOfTheSewers]

xposts!

[liath]

My parents' honeymoon photos are unintentially amusing - they were in the Western Isles and my dad has taken loads of photos of random sheep and none of his new bride .

MIL always takes photos of food, then we get "treated" to her holiday snaps of "This is the roast beef Auntie S cooked for me" (cue picture of plate with some meat on it ) or "These are some carrots at the market"......

[DitaVonCheese]

Facebook ones only annoy me when they're the wrong way round. FFS there's a function on there to spin them if you can't work out how to do it on your computer (or to get your camera to do it for you)!