What are some more of your pet peeves?

[Orwar]

40 minutes ago, RowanMinx said:

Amazing how I got my entire avatar in a picture even if I did turn it sideways.  So the whole excuse about doing it so people can see the whole avatar for blogging is BS

   I mean ...

   ... We can use whichever aspect ratio we want when we shoot. Well, up to 1:6144, anyway. Here's 1:4. If one doesn't know how to operate the snapshot tool, or how to use poses and zooming, perhaps one should consider not being a blogger. 

[Elora Lunasea]

1 hour ago, RowanMinx said:

They're on mine too.  If it's the same person, the pics are mostly the same same same everyday anyway.  Is there another color besides white?

OMG

I just happened to open this thread to see what it was about and right away, I knew exactly who you were talking about!

[Eddy Vortex]

Now let's do a barrel roll!

[Rowan Amore]

17 minutes ago, Eddy Vortex said:

Now let's do a barrel roll!

Now I'm dizzy!

[Gatogateau]

4 hours ago, Orwar said:

   Okay folks, we're on page two again. Bad form!

   Today's pet peeve is a photo one. And sure, people can shoot however they like and all, to each their own and such, but for crying out loud, could the fad of people shooting themselves with the camera rolled to the side just drop dead and stay dead, please? It's not artsy, it's just weird.

Meow.

The "Dutch Angle" CAN be used for art shots! But it is far from new and edgy. Well, actually it is used to put a little tension into the image. But um, yeah, each time this comes up as a peeve, I have to scamper in and pee on those that use this every single shot.

In Flickr I won't fave a photo that is a standard canted shot. (I will fave a Dutch Angle shot that is used creatively.) I won't fave a photo with some standard poses with finger gestures and tongues out. Soooo edgy. :::eyeroll:::

As others have said: Routinely relying on tilted images is lazy. Learn to use the damned camera. Or how to crop. Or something. Learn something.

 

[Gatogateau]

1 hour ago, RowanMinx said:

They're on mine too.  If it's the same person, the pics are mostly the same same same everyday anyway.  Is there another color besides white?

The benefit of this angle ^^^ is that it allows the breasts (can we say boobies?) to point away from the body at 90 degrees, which, as you know in SL is problematic. (sarcasm font)

[BelindaN]

I'm so relieved its not just me being peeved by angle shots.....

Ignoring makes my peeve shrink.

[Rowan Amore]

1 minute ago, Gatogateau said:

The benefit of this angle ^^^ is that it allows the breasts (can we say btheyoobies?) to point away from the body at 90 degrees, which, as you know in SL is problematic. (sarcasm font)

If I had tilted the opposite direction, they would have been in my armpits. 

[Gatogateau]

If the people who tilt every picture read other subforums we'd all get stern finger waggings for being mean. There would be foot stamping, and citing non-existent thread rules, for talking about photography on a non-photography thread (because talking about photography on a photography thread is verbotin according to the notorious finger waggers and tongue clickers). These comments would so peeve everyone involved, I'll bet there would be a lot of hair tossing.

 

PS. Yes, I tell you, cats are unreliable. You didn't notice this cat giving away stuff, did you? No. You did not.

Edited November 12, 2020 by Gatogateau

[Gatogateau]

3 minutes ago, RowanMinx said:

If I had tilted the opposite direction, they would have been in my armpits. 

 

[Eddy Vortex]

17 minutes ago, RowanMinx said:

Now I'm dizzy!

Sorry! 😬

12 minutes ago, Gatogateau said:

Meow.

The "Dutch Angle" CAN be used for art shots! But it is far from new and edgy. Well, actually it is used to put a little tension into the image. But um, yeah, each time this comes up as a peeve, I have to scamper in and pee on those that use this every single shot.

In Flickr I won't fave a photo that is a standard canted shot. (I will fave a Dutch Angle shot that is used creatively.) I won't fave a photo with some standard poses with finger gestures and tongues out. Soooo edgy. :::eyeroll:::

As others have said: Routinely relying on tilted images is lazy. Learn to use the damned camera. Or how to crop. Or something. Learn something.

 

I never knew this kind of photography method has a name.  Cool.  Learn something new everyday. 👍

[Orwar]

31 minutes ago, Gatogateau said:

The "Dutch Angle" CAN be used for art shots!

   Everyone can-can dance the Cancan, sure they can-can. 

   The Dutch angle is rarely so extreme, though, it's usually a few degrees, not flipping an image 90 degrees to fill up the camera. It's also 'usually' used to distress the viewer and represent psychological stress or trauma - and sure, if that's the intention of these people, they do succeed! 

[Gatogateau]

Precisely @Orwar!

I do it sooooo rarely, but for example I chose to on this shot because it was about being stressed, and a bit of stress eating (fruit? that IS fantasy!) and drinking (champagne? I wish!). So I canted the shot to make it less peaceful. Whether it worked or not... :::shrug:::

 

PS. And it was the inability to peacefully have this kind of discussion in a frikkin photography thread ffs, that had me flouncing out of THAT place for good. Well, that and being attacked by an asshat for I forget what. It is so weird we can type asshat.

Edited November 12, 2020 by Gatogateau

[Orwar]

2 minutes ago, Gatogateau said:

Whether it worked or not...

   It has a sense of 'when she bites the fruit, reality is going to be ripped away from beneath her and she'll fall into darkness' to it. Or maybe I just watch too much horror.

[Gatogateau]

2 minutes ago, Orwar said:

   It has a sense of 'when she bites the fruit, reality is going to be ripped away from beneath her and she'll fall into darkness' to it. Or maybe I just watch too much horror.

Considering the "month" I've had (about 35 days), I'd say your take is about spot on.

Since 10/5 I've had: An emergency surgery for an umbilical hernia (that has been around and boring for 10+ years) which killed a few inches of small intestines. Many days in the hospital. Complications when the stitches came out, more time in the ER. My apartment flooded from the upstairs neighbor's over-flowing toilet. Getting an upper respiratory, going to the ER to get a COVID test and instead get hospitalized for 5+ days with "you had a heart attack!" (Spoiler alert: Nope. No heart attack. My heart is stupidly healthy.)

ZOMG! This is all happening because the Universal Photographer is filming me using the Dutch Angle!

:::shakes fist at sky and unfollows that photographer:::

[Scylla Rhiadra]

Ok, I don't know how the platform itself pronounces its name, but the newish alt-right / Conspiracy Theories R Us social media platform? The name is "Parler," which is from the French verb "to talk." It's pronounced "parl-ay,," NOT (emphatically not) "parl-er."

Similarly, if you pronounce "foyer" as "foy-er" rather than "foy-ay," I'm afraid that we can't be friends.

 

 

(And don't even get me started on "clique" pronounced "click" - UGH!)

[Ultima Cloud]

1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Ok, I don't know how the platform itself pronounces its name, but the newish alt-right / Conspiracy Theories R Us social media platform? The name is "Parler," which is from the French verb "to talk." It's pronounced "parl-ay,," NOT (emphatically not) "parl-er."

Similarly, if you pronounce "foyer" as "foy-er" rather than "foy-ay," I'm afraid that we can't be friends.

 

 

(And don't even get me started on "clique" pronounced "click" - UGH!)

Are you sure they aren't saying "parlor" /ˈpärlər/? I don't think I've ever heard an English speaker use the word "parler" in reference to talking. It's likely they are just misspelling the word "parlor". Which has no relation to the French word "parler". And we already have the word "parlay" which also has no relation to "parler".

Also "foyer" is properly pronounced foiər in English. It's in the Oxford dictionary and everything. Ya it derives from the French word foyer. But the French "foyer" derives from the latin word "focus". Using your logic you yourself aren't even saying it correctly.

Edited November 13, 2020 by Ultimo Constantineau

[Rolig Loon]

18 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Similarly, if you pronounce "foyer" as "foy-er" rather than "foy-ay," I'm afraid that we can't be friends.

Don't go visiting Maddy, then.  People in her end of the world pronounce the town of Prairie de Chien: "Prary duh Sheen".  And then there's the mighty Saint Croix River, pronounced "Saint Croy".  Don't get me started on Des Moines, which is not Maddy's problem but is still close enough to shoulder the same albatross.   As a midwesterner myself, I suffer in silence.

[Orwar]

   Pet peeve: people whose proportions make me think of this guy.

   If you're 230 cm tall, maybe don't have a head the size of a satsumas. 

[Gage Wirefly]

Peeve: People who think they should have some say in other's creative expression, be it 'realistic' or proportional avatars or sideways images.  Just let people express themselves how they see fit .

[Jordyn McGregor]

Having been so sick that I have done nothing but sleep for the past 3 days...so am now wide awake and annoyed about it...at 4am. 

But then I remember my delightful insomnia which usually has me awake and annoyed till 5am.

[Sammy Huntsman]

Again on my tirade about ad photos. People who use RL photos and impose the item on the person. Not only do you not know how it looks in world. It also is dishonest advertising to me.

[Cindy Evanier]

Peeve - Not knowing what a sideways picture is because I never look at picture threads 🤷‍♂️

[Bagnu]

De gustibus non est disputandum!!!

[Solar Legion]

There is a difference between taking a Banner proportioned snapshot and a sideways/Dutch Angle shot.