Photographers suck!!

[scubajoh44]

I got your attention with that heading didn't I?.......

Anyway....You photographers really do suck. I've been looking at all your pictures and am going to end up spending my whole years salary on trying to see the places you shoot. What are you doing to me? Even the little sample pics on the forum page gets me. I'm putting tape on my computer right now to block them out!!

 

[devolution365]

I agree...
I came here thinking "I think I'd like a camera, I wonder if the disposables are good enough..." Then, I did some research, looked at sample pics, bought a digital camera + housing thinking that I'd be quite the photographer with my setup. Now I'm comparing photos with and without strobes and thinking that I may as well not take pics if I don't have a strobe!!!

It's outta control. We need a SB recovery forum, and more importantly a SB photography forum where we all post our mediocre shots and console each other...

:05:

 

[Humuhumunukunukuapua'a]

LOL...I thought for sure you were starting the flame war of the day. Had the popcorn popping and everything

 

[caymaniac]

I got your attention with that heading didn't I?.......

Anyway....You photographers really do suck. I've been looking at all your pictures and am going to end up spending my whole years salary on trying to see the places you shoot. What are you doing to me? Even the little sample pics on the forum page gets me. I'm putting tape on my computer right now to block them out!!

Yes, I'm guilty,guilty guilty guilty. And, it's taken years to figure out how my camera (underwater) takes good pictures with the settings i use. The problem is, I can't afford to go on vacation to the good places more than once a year. To have a strobe, and housing with a camera just sitting there looking at me day in and day out, I hear it calling even now......."take me, use me"....what really sucks is I love the reef, and I live in Michigan. At least through the years we've been able to get to some really awesome areas of the world, and for that I'm very thankful.
I'm also thinking about switching to digital, and the heap of money it'll cost me to get a decent DSLR, a housing and a good strobe. I don't have about 5K just laying around and if I did, I'd likely use it to get to one of those awesome corners of the globe where the diving and marine life are in tip top shape. :14:

 

[caymaniac]

Oh yeah, just so you aren't too dissapointed....

 

[jstuart1]

I'm gulty too. I started out with an Olympus Stylus 410 + housing purchased new. Well those pics really STUNK! Ok better camera = better pics so I bought a used C-5050 + Housing + Stobe. Ok pics are better but still STINK compared to those on the board. Wonderful hubby buys me a Sony VX-1000 + Housing, lights and a bunch of stuff to go with ok. First video really STINKS, second and third video only stink. Fourth video would have been ok except housing leaked and had to turn it off. Not a SINGLE one of the poor shots had ANYTHING to do with operator error! Gotta go spend more $$ to get a more expensive rig so my pics are better. Never mind that I haven't fully learned to operate a single one of my rigs.

 

[justleesa]

lol...sorry to have to put you thru it....

 

[dlndavid]

got me...

 

[verona]

Love your turtle Caymaniac!

 

[dpbishop]

What really sucks is when your buddy is in macro mode and you're just looking. A 40 minute dive to cover about 10 sq. ft.