Telling you what to do?

[B.Miller]

The last two photoshoots I've done, I've had random people come up to me and ask/tell me what I was doing and how I should do it right.


Does this happen to everyone? How do you deal with it?

[Nate P.]

Happens all the time. Just agree to make them go away, and then do your own thing.

[zelseman]

I have never had anyone do that, nor would I do that to another photographer unless it was something crazy obvious that they just werent noticing.

I think thats rather disrespectful. You wouldnt go up to a surgeon and say, "Hey, I clean fish with my filet knife. I think you will get that heart out alot faster if you do this."

[FlyingPhotog]

I have never had anyone do that, nor would I do that to another photographer unless it was something crazy obvious that they just werent noticing.

I think thats rather disrespectful. You wouldnt go up to a surgeon and say, "Hey, I clean fish with my filet knife. I think you will get that heart out alot faster if you do this."

Fortunately, hospital security is pretty good or it would certainly happen with alarming frequency.

For every real expert, there are far too many "armchair" versions...

[yogestee]

Nope,,never happens to me.. But I often get asked what I'm shooting with..

[JeffreyG]

I've never had people tell me what to do. Usually they ask me what they should do.

The parents of the volleyball team hired me to shoot the girls for posters etc. for their end of season banquet. As I was setting up one of the dads asked me what my settings were as he was clutching some kind of dSLR with an f/5.6 telezoom.

"ISO3200, f/2 and 1/640" I told him. Hmmmm.....his camera only goes to ISO1600. I noted that he was going to be down four stops from me on shutter speed....."Try to catch them when they are not moving" was the best advice I could give him.

[FlyingPhotog]

^^^ :lol: ^^^

[B.Miller]

The first one to do this to me caught me off guard and I brushed if off but the guy today really rubbed me the wrong way. To the point where the family I was taking pics for mentioned how rude he was about the situation.


Just didn't know how you guys dealt.


/vent. :)

[PMCphotography]

Happens all the time. Just agree to make them go away, and then do your own thing.

Yup. I say something like "Yeah, that's a good point. I'll keep that in mind."

It's not worth the hassle disagreeing with them.

[yogestee]

I say something like "Yeah, that's a good point. I'll keep that in mind.


As tactful as a Taswegian can be!!

[argyle]

Hardly ever happens, and if it did, I'd probably thank the person and say that maybe I'd give it a try sometime...that's usually enough to end it right there...I try not to encourage or extend the conversation. There's only one person I'll listen to and take advice from...a friend of mine that shoots for National Geographic. Other than that, I do fine on my own.

[Jon Foster]

It happens to me all the time... Especially at event shoots.

Jon.

[golfecho]

There's only one person I'll listen to and take advice from...a friend of mine that shoots for National Geographic. Other than that, I do fine on my own.

I would take advice from him too. And the wife.

[mike_d]

Get a big white lens. No one tries to tell the "expert" with the big white lens what to do.

[bric-a-brac]

Get a big white lens. No one tries to tell the "expert" with the big white lens what to do.

alternative (or extension) to this: shoot with 2 or 3 camera bodies at a time. :p

[mike_d]

alternative (or extension) to this: shoot with 2 or 3 camera bodies at a time. :p

Don't forget the vest and the floppy hat!

[Chrazer]

Well I did give someone some advice yesterday as a matter of fact. At a small zoo nearby they have begun to teach the Tigers some tricks, this involves the keeper entering the cage with four not yet so well trained Siberian tigers (the really big ones). He specifically mention taking photos is OK but please no flash it upsets the tigers.

This bitch flashes the tigers the guy is not having an easy time and has not got the time to tell her.

Later on in the zoo she is wandering around sticking her flash in the eyes of every animal she can find just from a few inches away. The sort of thing that gets those no taking photos sign hung up.

OK I told her loud enough that other people can year about the uselessness of flash photography through a pane of glass, even with a DSLR. It wouldn't be worth entering a moral discussion with such a foolMaybe a bit of embarrassment will help...

[nicksan]

You always get overzealous types itching to tell you right from wrong.
Best to ignore them. Just be nice, nod as if you agree with them, and they will go away.

[Digital_zen]

I think a lot of whether you get advice or get asked for advice is age. I don't offer advice unless someone asks, then I try to keep to just what they asked about.
Sometimes those offering unsolicited advice have some that is good, don't just blow everyone off, after all they did take the time to come over and say something.
If they're talking about things that you already know, or just giving bad advice, you can always just yes them to death, or if you have time, correct them and explain why they are wrong. Alternatively you can just give 'em yeah or two and then go into something that you know is way over their head. LOL

[B.Miller]

Definitely, I'm sure 24 is relatively young to be a decent photog. Just really bugged me, but I will def shrug the next ones off.

[Cosha]

I went to my Brother in Laws Graduation party, he was doing Digital Art

I Was unlucky enough to sit next to some ones Father that his Son just got a Hons in Photography....

Firstly, Im not the best person when im mentaly bored, Secondly Listening for an hour and a half that i 'Should' get a Nikon and how this man portrayed himself as the best photog in the world

I had to leave when he got his DLSR out, wacked it on the Green Box and took pictures