To get irrationally annoyed by people who take crap photos?

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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.

PS liath that reminds me of my aunt and uncle's holiday photos - not that they are bad, but they always used to take slides (I assume because the film is cheaper) and then you'd go round to see them and they would have complete control of how fast you flicked through plus once they'd gone to all the hassle of getting the projector and screen out, they might as well show you a few more reels while you were there. Their three-hour long slide shows still loom large over my childhood!

I can recall losing the will to live sitting there whilst my aunt rewound her brother's wedding video to show us bits 'we'd missed' (probably as she kept forwarding the tape on and then rewinding it) and then we never got to actually see the weddding part which surely is the most important part of the video! It was like being stuck in Groundhog Day.

Just let holiday snaps or video play through fgs.

And the nerd answer is: parallex error. The viewfinder and lens on some cameras don't actually quite point at the same thing, iykwim. Like the lens takes the picture from the view you see sat down and what you see in the viewfinder is what you'd see standing up.

SLRs are designed so that the mirror in the camera reflects up to a pentaprism and thats why you see what the lens is pointing at through the viewfinder. WYSIWYG.

I should think that you can't go wrong with a compact digital camera if you look at the screen, but they would still suffer from parallex error.

OOh I like "parallex error." It sounds like a 1970s cult sci-fi film. I am going to refer to it next time the camera's out, it might lead to drumming up interest in taking some better pictures.