Don't post pictures of your own kids

[guitar guy]

or these!!!

 

[CapM]

or these!!!

Looks like you cropped off his body...

 

[Boomn4x4]

So the upshot of your advice is - don't post any photos that you've taken yourself - which then hits the site rules of not posting photos that you don't own - which results in - -- -- a photo forum where you can't post any photos at all :mrgreen:

I was being sarcastic about the "or your dog, or your cat, or your wife, or your girlfriend, or your mom or your dad, or your college roomate that you fooled around with that one time but you were both drunk so it dosen't make you a lesbian" part... If you have the same emotional connection to your son as you have for a picture of a football, then you have bigger problems.

I don't know if any of you who are opposing me on this have little children or not, but if you don't then you have no idea how stupid you become when your kids are around...its bad. Like I said... I took 35 pictures of my 18 month old walking around babbling on the phone to his grandma last night.

 

[Geaux]

I don't know if any of you who are opposing me on this have little children or not, but if you don't then you have no idea how stupid you become when your kids are around...its bad. Like I said... I took 35 pictures of my 18 month old walking around babbling on the phone to his grandma last night.

Make a new thread!

 

[Robin Usagani]

How about triple the cuteness?

 

[Overread]

I don't know if any of you who are opposing me on this have little children or not, but if you don't then you have no idea how stupid you become when your kids are around...its bad. Like I said... I took 35 pictures of my 18 month old walking around babbling on the phone to his grandma last night.

From what I have seen the potential is there for people to be just as "stupid" with regard to any photo that they have taken. From weddings to kids to pets to footballs.
As said some people just don't emotionally disconnect from their photos and when they get crits (that often they ask for) they are not prepared to hear that their photo is not as perfect as they once thought it was. It's a learning curve and all "artists" who generally want to develop further have to go through the process - from painters to sculpters to builders and to photographers.

 

[Light Artisan]

your college roomate that you fooled around with that one time but you were both drunk so it dosen't make you a lesbian

This I want pics of.

 

[KAikens318]

Okay, here is my rant for the day.

Please, don't post pictures of your children for C&C. They are never good, and I feel really bad critiquing them.

When you are photographing you own children, you become photo-stupid. Everything you know goes out the window and the only thing you are concerened about is recording that "OMG... look at how cute he is talking on the phone to grandma" (I use that as an example because just last night, I shot 35 pictures of that very thing) adorable picture. All you see is how adorable your child is.... never mind that the lighting is wrong, the DOF is wrong, the focus is wrong, the rule of thirds has been violated, and that your husband can be clearly seen in his stained whitey-tighties in the background.

If you here at this site to become more serious about photography, and really want to learn more, you are doing yourself a serious injustice by posting pictures of your own children. Nobody is going to be brutally honest with you, and even if they are, you are just going to ignore them anyway because, "how could it be possible to take a bad picture of cute little Suzy". If you really want to get better, the emotion you have with the subject is doing nothing but holding you back. And if you are here just to have people say how cute your kid is... you are probably better off staying with Facebook.

Uh oh.....Photo of my child!!!

Oh no!!! Another one!!!

Yup, I am totally photo stupid.

Honestly? Wow. I must say your post is thoroughly irritating. Just because it is a photo of your child doesn't mean that you are just going to take a snapshot and post it. Some of us do try to get that really great (technically not just emotionally) photo. And hey look, sometimes we can succeed. I have seen some gorgeous photos posted on this forum of people's children. Yes there are some that are less than perfect, but who are you to judge?

 

[Geaux]

Well, here's another valid arguement by OP also .... "Post Processing is not PHOTOGRAPHY"

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...oto-gallery/208354-am-i-only-one-refuses.html

el oh el.

 

[Overread]

That's it all these kids in the thread - its high time we had a cat!

 

[Geaux]

I see your cat ... and raise you ... MY DOG

 

[MichiganFarts]

I told my wife, before we had our first kid...

"I don't want to be one of those parents who are in denial of having an ugly baby, and everyone has to tell them how cute their ugly baby is just so that they don't feel bad! So I'm telling you right now, if our baby is ugly, I'mma say it, and I'm gonna be proud of my ugly baby!"

Luckily, our baby was the cutest baby I or my wife has ever seen, and we've never had a photo taken of them that wasn't the absolutely best photo of a kid ever....so it wasn't a problem.

 

[ajkramer87]

I can see what you mean but also you cant group all of us into that parent with a camera mindset. Ive never posted a picture of my daughter for CC but that doesn't mean my shots of her are just snapshots.

 

[Geaux]

very soft focus around the eyes ... cut off features ... typical of what the OP is talking about haha

 

[KAikens318]

I see your cat, and your dog, and I raise you a frog!!!