How you know you've spent too much time in post.

[Tzetsin]

So I'm sitting here going through yet more photos from the last 3 months, like i have been for the last week or so. I've got music playing on my nifty ugly great sounding headset. The next track starts playing "Fly to the angels" by the eighties band "Slaughter". If you ever heard it played you'd hear a familiar "HSSSSSSSSSSSS" sound right at the beginning, about a second before the band starts playing...

Well I heard that HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS and i shit you not, the next thought from my mind was to grab the noise slider. (i was in lightroom) the next thought was "holy crap... i better go outside..."

That is how you know you have spent too much time in post.

[dlambert]

Does Dolby make a Lightroom plugin?

That's pretty funny...

[amy_bb]

Let me tag on to this....

You know you've spent too much time thinking about/reading about/posting about photography when:

You see a car w/the first 3 letters in the license plate as AWB and you immediately think "auto white balance",

You see a child running around who is cute and probably very photogenic with big engaging eyes. You start to look for the catchlights in their eyes while they are sitting live in front of you just being a normal, live kid.

You look at a scene on a cloudy day, you don't have your camera in your hand but you immediately think that you need to bump up the saturation or do a levels adjustment b/c the colors around you are not vibrant enough.

Others?

[Jim Bryant]

when time passes too quickly and you realize nothing has been done.

[Tzetsin]

You know you've spent too much time with photography when....

Your everyday photography equipment is worth more than your vehicle...

You sit and stare at a fountain in the Home Depot entrance way for 10 minutes before your buddy asks you what the hell your looking at and you reply with a straight face " just wondering how i'd light that...

you get an urge to shoot something at 2am, get out of bed, wife asks you what your doing, tells you she'll be angry if you go out... and you go anyway...

All your holiday considerations center around the available photo opportunities...

Your porn collection is no longer the largest file on your hard drive...

You make your own mother stow her carry on so you wont have to put the rest of your photography equipment under the plane.... and your glad you did because they ended up sending the bags to the wrong place and even though she now has to sleep in her clothes for the next two days your just glad you've got your gear...


... and YES i've done all these things and MORE lol

[faeriegodess612]

When,..

You say DPS and you mean digital-photography-school.com Your husband says DPS and he means Damage Per Second. (He plays a very popular online video game.)

You buy a new pair of polarized sunglasses with a orangey tint to them, and whenever you put them on its like your putting on Shade WB glasses, then when you take them off, suddenly everything is bluer like in Daylight WB. And you literally think of the difference in those terms.

You look at a scene on a cloudy day, you don't have your camera in your hand but you immediately think that you need to bump up the saturation or do a levels adjustment b/c the colors around you are not vibrant enough.

LOL,..I've done that!! Or, even on a sunny bright day with grass or trees that are so new and bright that you think that the saturation needs to be dulled just a tad.

[Tzetsin]

Originally Posted by faeriegodess612

When,..

You buy a new pair of polarized sunglasses with a orangey tint to them, and whenever you put them on its like your putting on Shade WB glasses, then when you take them off, suddenly everything is bluer like in Daylight WB. And you literally think of the difference in those terms. .

or you specifically buy those orangey glasses because they help you envision good shots before you take them ;D

[Jonbar18]

When SS no longer means Social Security.
You pay more attention to the photographers while watching UFC
You get a totally different image in your head when someone says `he was shot with a cannon`
You`re camera(s) have names
You look outside on a sunny day and try to imagine a gradient.

[3bayjunkie]

I've actually started watching sports more often on TV just so I can get ideas of how to photograph them better. I've really never cared for watching sports too much. but i like to watch them through the lens of my camera :P

[scootermcq]

You look at the pinup girl on page 3 of the newspaper and the first thing you are observing is the light and composition......