The more I learn about photography and the more I train my eyes the more I notice blatant errors or poor technique in amateur (and pro!) photographs. It sounds super-snobby but I especially have come to notice things like embarrassingly inadequate depth of field, really poor framing (especially cutting subjects’s arms and legs off in the frame at odd places), slight angling of the horizon, and overly grainy enlargements that “semi-pros” print that just look horrendously terrible.

Another thing that really shits me is that digital photos, especially ultra-wide ones, tend to wash out some highlights straight to ugly white, without much transitioning or colour graduations. Often a sky in a landscape or sunset will have ugly overexposed white blotches whilst the foreground is too dim or grainy. I know that is inherent where there is great brightness difference, but apparently film handles very bright contrasting colours much better and doesn’t wash out to white so quickly, and so I am really really looking forward to shooting plenty more with film in future.