This one is funny... and too true of us all :D

[DanielLane]

My wife found this somewhere and posted it on my facebook page... lol

50 Reasons not to Date a Photographer

1. They rather hold their bulky camera, than hold hands with you.

2. On a romantic date, you’ll watch the sun go down and think “Wow this is gorgeous” and they’ll go “mirror lock, tripod, and stop down f/8 at 1/125.”

3. You’ll never be able to enjoy tv, movies, or magazines because they’ll point out all the visual flaws.

4. They like to sit in obscure coffee shop and voyeuristically watch people for great lengths of time.

5. If you’re taking a walk outside and you come across some “interesting light” they will make you sit/stand/pose in public so that they can take a photo.

6. You’ll never get to enjoy freshly cooked meals because they’ll spend 15 minutes taking 20 variations of the same dish with their iPhone.

7. They get angry when your friends go up to them and say “I am interested in photography, can you recommend a good camera for me? Nothing professional I just want to take pretty pictures.”

8. You’ll wait longer for them to finish analyzing art in a museum than you’ll wait at the dmv

9. Same goes with old used bookstores.

10. When you think they’re giving you their undivided attention, they’re really wondering how they could fix you with a little Clone Tool and Patch Tool.

11. Or they are actually using you to not look so creepy as they people watch everything going on around you.

12. They rather drop $1,000+ on new glass than a purse for you.

13. You can’t take a photo with them without taking at least five more.

14. If you ask them if you look fat, they’ll say “don’t worry I can photoshop you later.”

15. They’ll never photoshop something simple for you if the content is not up to their “standards.”

16. That photo they randomly took of you yesterday? Good luck getting them to send it to you.

17. They spend all their time on the computer (and not for porn.)

18. They can’t have a normal conversation with throwing acronyms and random numbers.

19. They still use film cameras.

20. They spend a lot of time with people cooler than you i.e. models, actors, musicians, successful rich people.

21. They’ll be fussy over the position of a common household object, like a coffee cup.

22. They won’t return your calls or text messages, but you can bet they’re still posting pics on Instagram.

23. They like watching old films that you’ve never heard or will ever understand.

24. They like looking at weird things in general.

25. Instead of having penis-envy, they have camera-gear-envy.

26. If there’s a natural disaster in a far away land, they’re already on a plane going over there.

27. Everything is watermarked.

28. They think everyone else’s photos suck.

29. They want to color correct a lot of scenes from Twilight and Jersey Shore.

30. They hate rainbows, especially ones spinning in a circle.

31. Whenever you’re in a group talking and the conversation goes deep, they’re taking notes in some form of Moleskine.

32. They use over priced Moleskine notebooks.

33. They like trespassing into old abandoned buildings filled with health hazards.

34. They always want to show a new photo they took, but don’t really care if you like it or not.

35. They hate your n00bie friend’s new artsy profile picture.

36 Bright, sunny days make them sad, but cloudy, overcast days are apparently great!

37. They’ll take you into places that have “culture” as well a high chance of getting mugged.

38. Your birthday present will be a portrait that they’ve taken of you.

39. You can’t go anywhere new without them stopping to take a photo of everything and anything.

40. They will always bug you to be a test subject.

41. Nothing can ever be naturally pretty, everything must be fixed in Photoshop.

42. Bringing their camera means, bringing 50lbs of equipment.

43. If you break any of their things on accident, you’ll owe them thousands of dollars.

44. You can’t get them a birthday/Christmas present without spending at least $500

45. They are natural hoarders, collecting and keeping piles of old newspapers, packaging, magazines, and other things that “inspire” them.

46. They are weird and geeky.

47. They have hard drives of photos, but probably have printed 10 images.

48. They are always secretly judging your creativity.

49. If you’re ever in auto mode, they laugh at you.

50. They orgasm every time they learn a new lighting technique.

[Bruce A]

Someone should ask the author, "Is there a reason why your husband turned to photography?"



TFS Daniel!

[vsa]

Number 46 is reason "to date" rather than "not to date".

[SwissJon]

That's all so weird and geeky that my wife didn't understand why I was laughing to myself.. Oh dear.. Have I really become that sad?

[DanielLane]

Yes Jon, but it's ok. We still love you.

[ArmySoldier777]

Lol, I came to a lot of realizations while reading this. Maybe I need to step away from the computer for awhile


"40. They will always bug you to be a test subject." I still haven't won on that one yet, can't get one single photo...

[dlambert]

Ok, that's fairly hilarious. A little close to home, maybe, but hilarious.

[Jim Bryant]

Those are so true! HAd to post on FB. Thanks for sharing!

[Peach]

I am so surprised no one has mentioned how true #50 is.

Or maybe it's just my dirty little mind.

[ArmySoldier777]

So me and the lady decided to go out and get something to eat tonight. Sometimes it's nice to get away from leftovers, ya know . Well, we're sitting in the restaurant, and there's this amazing lighting falling on this hand sculpted woodwork. It's kind of hard to describe, but it was very well done and there was just a nice flow to it. It was very detailed work. And there was a soft warm light that complimented it perfectly.

Well, I'm sitting there just staring at it, haven't even touched my food yet. And I keep playing out different angles in my mind on how I could get a really good shot of it. Thinking about different exposure settings, what the best DOF would be, what ISO I'd probably need so that I wouldn't have to sacrifice too much shutter speed and risk blurring. The average photographer stuff . Then I feel a hard flick, right across my forehead. Apparently my fiance had been talking to me for a whole 5 minutes straight and without realizing it, I was nodding to her words so she thought I was listening to her, when in reality I'd never even noticed she'd started talking. I was so fixed on framing this potential photograph in my head. Then she realized that I hadn't heard a word she said and brought me back to reality lol