Street photography. I'm not saying all of it is bad, but 95% of the pictures I've seen are not interesting in any way except "The person I photographed didn't notice it". I don't remember the last time I've seen a street photograph and thought "That's a great picture, I want to see more from the photographer"
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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In most cases it's skeevy as fuck too.
Like yeah yeah there's no expectation of privacy in a public space. That doesn't mean it's moral to use non-consenting strangers for your photography project.
I have a lot more respect for portrait artists because they actually treat their subjects like human beings rather than objects, and can actually say something about their subject with their photo because they know who their subject actually is.
A good street photography is so hard and most that I see are just straight up bad
AI skin retouching. It’s become so obvious and terrible lately when I see it. It gives everyone a uniform grainy texture and washed out facial features
Everyone’s engagement/couples/wedding/portrait images getting that under-saturated, underexposed, almost-sepia preset/recipe. We get it, you’re rustic. Start exposing and composing in an interesting fashion and quit running everything through the dirt.
Out of focus or blurry portraits/wedding photos. You’re not creative, your bad at your job. Stop it.
Older men on YouTube taking portraits of young women they hired, so they can talk about bokeh from a 2 grand lens they rented. We get it, your divorce was messy and the kids don't return your calls anymore.
Mixed colored lighting portraits in which the lighting isn’t motivated by the environment or the feeling you’d like to evoke.
The retro direct flash photos reminiscent of the 90s. You do you, but it's not for me.