You know you are addicted to photography when...

[Valethar]

How about when you forget to listen to the person talking to you because you're focusing on the catchlights in their eyes and where the light is coming from? My husband gets so mad at me for that! lol

LOL.

Reminds me of a friend. He's an ex Navy SEAL, and even though he's been retired for several years, he still habitually does a 'threat/target assessment' when he goes someplace new. His wife needles him all the time about that.

He's good natured about it. Told her it's never a bad idea to know where the exits are if the party sucks.

 

[THORHAMMER]

You are thinking in terms of 1/3 2/3, etc.. ratios when you are slowly opening your miniblinds at home and mixing that with your lamps...

And when your wife sits down on the couch you go for the entryway light thinking "Boo ya ; Hair light " !
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You actually thought about soldering a cable to the CF jacks in the camera to improve the buffer.
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You thought about making a "holster" for your camera.
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You have one tripod for your trunk/back seat and one for your house.
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You have had the trunk tripod compete for space with your kids in the back seat thinking, "theyll learn to avoid it"
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You spend more time seatbelting in your camera case then your kids !
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Your camera closet has a better grade deadbolt/lock then your front door
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You built a steel cage in your trunk and put in a removable steering wheel
for "peace fo mind"
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The people who manufacture clamps and gaffers tape come to you with marketing ideas
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Someone at work came back from a tradeshow with the red canon shoulder strap, and you stole it from their desk leaving a 10$ bill in its wake.
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You spend extra for your foldable car window shades to have the foil. Its a backup reflector !!!!

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You tried to engineer a tripod that the pole and legs spring down to the ground with the touch of a button.

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the word "Leatherman" is NOT a gay biker bar, but a necessity in your belt.

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[JimmyO]

(For guys)
You turn on the the TV and you see project runway is on. You watch the whole hour and observe intensly during the photoshots to see what camera+lens they use, what light boxes, and what kind of pocket wizzards.

 

[ZacMan1987]

When walking in late from a shoot, you don't bother to turn any lights on. You just use your AF assist light, because that's the only thing it's good for

 

[Garbz]

Auto ISO

(according to mr. Ken Rockwell)

Man why am I not surprised. Call me crazy but my year 8 biology teacher seemed to think the brightness we see was more of an aperture type thing possibly something to do with the iris.

 

[Battou]

A) You know what a "StopGap" is.

B) Your list of no longer produced gear value surpasses the value of your car.

C) You carry not one but TWO compacts in your briefcase for work

D) You Know how to use a camera with out Batteries.

E) You somehow end up buying a new camera when turning in film

F) you burn a roll of film in the afore mentioned new camera before getting to the drug store

G) You start finding and identifying the SLR in porn images

Ok enough of my personal experiances for now, maybe I'll share more later....

Mine from the last one of these

 

[Ben-71]

You lean way out through the window of a light aircraft, and think - "Just don't drop the camera... There's a strap, but..." ...

 

[Battou]

You lean way out through the window of a light aircraft, and think - "Just don't drop the camera... There's a strap, but..." ...

I think that every time I take a picture from the Main street bridge


and then proceede to where my camera tourist style to shoot....

 

[Uglulyx Takes Photos Too]

You take grade 11 photography and end up completing half of grade 12 photography at the same time.

You still take grade 12 photography

You become the peer helper for grade 11 photography.

 

[BoblyBill]

When walking in late from a shoot, you don't bother to turn any lights on. You just use your AF assist light, because that's the only thing it's good for

LOL... Nice...

 

[mrodgers]

you watch a professional sport looking for the guys with white lens.

Before the NHL playoffs, during one of the last regular season games, the TV announcers were talking to Danny Sabourin (Pittsburgh's 2nd goalie) while Fleury was in net. The camera kept moving to Sabourin sitting in the aisleway at the corner of the ice and 2 photographers were sitting in front of him. One was using Canon and the other Nikon and you can see them leaning in and gabbing the whole time. I just watched them gab while I listened to what Sabourin was gabbing to with the announcers.

 

[(Ghastly) Krueger]

If you go to the can and while you "wait" you take out you cameraphone and take a few shots of your feet, just to see how it reacts to the light.

 

[BoblyBill]

When you spend some of the night working on developing pictures and spend the rest of the night in thinking on your next shot... Grrr...

 

[That One Guy]

And when your wife sits down on the couch you go for the entryway light thinking "Boo ya ; Hair light " !
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you talk to a plastic surgeon about replacing one of your eyes with a lens

 

[THORHAMMER]

You scour the net looking for a program to turn your cheap razor phone into a handheld metering device.