I need funny photography sayings

MnemosyneMnemosyne Registered Users Posts: 251 Major grins
edited January 12, 2009 in The Big Picture
Hello :) I'm going to work on a How-To for new photographers at my school paper, for fun, and I need some help.

I'm looking for funny catch phrases, expressions or sayings about photography or cameras. For example...

"I shoot people," "I see dead pixels" or "Photographers do it with the lens cap off"

If you know of any, please feel free to share them, and when my project is done, I will make sure you see what they were used for.
Audentes fortuna iuvat

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  • TrevlanTrevlan Registered Users Posts: 649 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    Mnemosyne wrote:
    Hello :) I'm going to work on a How-To for new photographers at my school paper, for fun, and I need some help.

    I'm looking for funny catch phrases, expressions or sayings about photography or cameras. For example...

    "I shoot people," "I see dead pixels" or "Photographers do it with the lens cap off"

    If you know of any, please feel free to share them, and when my project is done, I will make sure you see what they were used for.

    Photography is expensive, I'd rather have a muffin.
    Frank Martinez
    Nikon Shooter
    It's all about the moment...
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    http://homepage.mac.com/david_rosenthal/AndyRandomQuoteGenerator.htm
    Andy

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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    I use these in many instances...

    "What could possibly go wrong?"

    "I have screwed up bigger projects than this"
    -=Bradford

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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    can haz cheeseburger?
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    "P mode" stands for Professional
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    BradfordBenn wrote:
    I use these in many instances...

    "What could possibly go wrong?"

    "I have screwed up bigger projects than this"

    those will have me smiling all day.... funny shiz
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    harumph!


    (maybe thats too much of an inside joke? and yes DavidTO it makes me laugh still todaythumb.gif )
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    "what does this button do?"
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    "what do you mean shoot Raw? i dont want to get arrested!"
    Aaron Nelson
  • TrevlanTrevlan Registered Users Posts: 649 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    "what do you mean shoot Raw? i dont want to get arrested!"
    Or pregnant. Hahahaha!
    Frank Martinez
    Nikon Shooter
    It's all about the moment...
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    "what does this button do?"

    I have actually said "What's it doing now?" out loud. At my own familiar camera.
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
  • TrevlanTrevlan Registered Users Posts: 649 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    pyry wrote:
    I have actually said "What's it doing now?" out loud. At my own familiar camera.

    Hahahahaha! Awesome. Did anyone hear you?
    Frank Martinez
    Nikon Shooter
    It's all about the moment...
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2009
    Trevlan wrote:
    Hahahahaha! Awesome. Did anyone hear you?

    They told me to turn mirror lock-up off - at which there was a kind of smacking sound from the direction of my forehead.
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
  • TrevlanTrevlan Registered Users Posts: 649 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2009
    pyry wrote:
    They told me to turn mirror lock-up off - at which there was a kind of smacking sound from the direction of my forehead.

    Hahahahah Pyry! I can't wait to use this one, "This damned camera doens't know what it's doing." LoL.
    Frank Martinez
    Nikon Shooter
    It's all about the moment...
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited January 3, 2009
    "See the light, Shoot the light!"

    "If your picture isn't any good, get closer!"

    "I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself" Pablo Picasso

    "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal" Pablo Picasso

    Here is a link for more most by Ansel Adams - http://www.quotedb.com/categories/photography


    Heres more - http://www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=345160

    I liked this one

    Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about time, masters worry about light.
    Pathfinder - www.pathfinder.smugmug.com

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  • ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2009
    Hold my beer and watch this.........


















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    It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he is potentially. We should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through the world we inhabit.
  • anwmn1anwmn1 Registered Users Posts: 3,469 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2009
    Its only trespassing if you get caught.

    Size does matter.

    It doesn't matter how many you can shoot. It matters how many you keep.
    "The Journey of life is as much in oneself as the roads one travels"


    Aaron Newman

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  • anwmn1anwmn1 Registered Users Posts: 3,469 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2009
    I'll fix it in photoshop
    "The Journey of life is as much in oneself as the roads one travels"


    Aaron Newman

    Website:www.CapturingLightandEmotion.com
    Facebook: Capturing Light and Emotion
  • a110p0a110p0 Registered Users Posts: 257 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2009
    Photo sayings
    Don't know who actually originated this often stated saying:
    "f8 and be there"

    I think I heard this from Craig Tanner (paraphrased):
    "There's something amazing happening somewhere"

    Alvin
    Alvin
    Fremont, CA
    SmugMug Gallery
  • OsirisPhotoOsirisPhoto Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2009
    Talking of Ansel Adams, one of my favourite quotes is "The single most important part of a camera is the twelve inches behind it."

    When I told this to my girlfriend, quick as a dart she replied "Yeah right, you wish." rolleyes1.gif
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  • joglejogle Registered Users Posts: 422 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2009
    I love that saying!
    jamesOgle photography
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." -A.Adams[/FONT]
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