Too serious!

[TRICKY_TINK]

This site is funny. Some of you need to find better things to do. I don't find anything wrong with someone making a face at a camera. You know how many pictures I have with dumb looking people in the background. Jaws gapped open, lazy eyes, picking wedges, screaming kids, yelling parents. I would happily take a silly, smiling or just about any other purposeful face.

 

[ttintagel]

You *are* in other people's photos in that situation. What if someone else on the ride wanted to buy the ride photo/had photopass+ and intended on getting the digital download?

Unless you're flashng the camera or making an inappropriate gesture, then the picture will be available for the others on the ride to buy.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

This site is funny. Some of you need to find better things to do. I don't find anything wrong with someone making a face at a camera. You know how many pictures I have with dumb looking people in the background. Jaws gapped open, lazy eyes, picking wedges, screaming kids, yelling parents. I would happily take a silly, smiling or just about any other purposeful face.

Well you are entitled to have a funny face in your photos if that is what YOU want. Other people are entitled not to, its simply a matter of manners and doing the right thing.

AKK

 

[WDW in Pearls]

If their family/group is large enough to fill a car, then no... They aren't in other people's photos at all, it would be just their own group. I think those cars only fit 6-8, right? Perfectly reasonable.

Yeah, this is what I meant.

 

[whitney37354]

We were photobombed in our DHS family picture. The nice young gentleman is now included in our WDW photo collage in our dining room! There is a way to be assertive without being aggressive & nasty. Maybe the CM needs some training. Maybe some of us need thicker skins. Probably a bit of both.

 

[luvmy3]

Rude or vulgar gestures are one thing, but someone making a silly face in the background? I just have an incredibly hard time wrapping my head around the concept of that picture being "ruined" in any way, shape, or form. If it was happening in a studio where you don't expect the autonomous individuals in the crowd that surrounds you to be doing whatever they feel like? Sure. In an amusement park? I just can't begin to comprehend it.

If I wanted some idiot stranger intentionally making a silly face in my pictures, I'd ask them to stand next to my family when I took it. Its the intent behind the photobomb I have a problem with, the person doing it IS trying to ruin a someone's photo. Not sure why you cant comprehend that, its pretty obvious

 

[DebbieB]

I was out in California with a friend last year and we had a good time riding Radiator Springs Racers. It was fun to hold your arms up as you go around the track (like Test Track). We were in the front row and felt bad when we got to the picture area and noticed our arms/hands blocked out the faces of the people behind us in the 2nd row, especially a little boy. Lady gave us dirty looks. We apologized.

 

[Pooh2]

I had never heard of the phrase "photobombing" before but have had that happen several times to us, including my son's wedding! His friend was in nearly EVERY candid during the reception! Trying to figure out how to photoshop him out of a nice photo of my family! Boy is that obnoxious!

Does not sounds at all like this was the case with OP and that photographer was very unprofessional!

 

[momofboyz3]

If I wanted some idiot stranger intentionally making a silly face in my pictures, I'd ask them to stand next to my family when I took it. Its the intent behind the photobomb I have a problem with, the person doing it IS trying to ruin a someone's photo. Not sure why you cant comprehend that, its pretty obvious

I agree. Hey of someone is walking by oblivious to photos being taken, hey I get it, as I'm usually in my own small world so to speak. BUT, it's another thing when someone is intentionally trying to ruin someone family photo. It's not funny. A family actually at a local amusement park asked me to take a family photo of them... Sure I did.. But then a teenager decides to photobomb! So I stopped & told the kid to knock it off. Who the heck wants some random person acting like an idiot in the background?

 

[mummabear]

I was out in California with a friend last year and we had a good time riding Radiator Springs Racers. It was fun to hold your arms up as you go around the track (like Test Track). We were in the front row and felt bad when we got to the picture area and noticed our arms/hands blocked out the faces of the people behind us in the 2nd row, especially a little boy. Lady gave us dirty looks. We apologized.

This happens all the time, the only way we see DD3 in ride photos is if we are in the front-no big deal

 

[disnut8]

I agree. Hey of someone is walking by oblivious to photos being taken, hey I get it, as I'm usually in my own small world so to speak. BUT, it's another thing when someone is intentionally trying to ruin someone family photo. It's not funny. A family actually at a local amusement park asked me to take a family photo of them... Sure I did.. But then a teenager decides to photobomb! So I stopped & told the kid to knock it off. Who the heck wants some random person acting like an idiot in the background?

And that's my point as well. Who in the world would want to intentionally spoil someone else's photo? Why? That's what I can't wrap my head around. Yes, in the digital age, you can take another photo. However you have to get everyone back to their places and then return to go. Which takes up time and space yet again. Yes, if someone walks accidentally in front of my camera, I'll smile and take another picture. But the thing I still can't understand is the purposeful intent on intruding on someone else's vacation. Purposeful intent.

 

[BayouMickey]

they are "photographers" ... crop and ps...
said photographer would've gotton an ear full from me.

 

[momofboyz3]

And that's my point as well. Who in the world would want to intentionally spoil someone else's photo? Why? That's what I can't wrap my head around. Yes, in the digital age, you can take another photo. However you have to get everyone back to their places and then return to go. Which takes up time and space yet again. Yes, if someone walks accidentally in front of my camera, I'll smile and take another picture. But the thing I still can't understand is the purposeful intent on intruding on someone else's vacation. Purposeful intent.

I have to admit, for argument sake I'm sitting in the break room at work & asked some co-workers there take on "photobombing".... 18yr old college student "hahaha hysterical" 35 yr old pharmacist "why is that hysterical? Your going to stop what your doing to ruin a family's vacation photo? You will look like an idiot and make a complete (explicit) out of yourself" Hopefully any photographer that sees it will in turn take a new photo. I'm one to let anything roll off my back, very easy going w/a great sense of humor. But, Im on your side... If you are DELIBERATELY photobombing a families photo and you do not know them you really are a loser.

 

[ttintagel]

Its the intent behind the photobomb I have a problem with, the person doing it IS trying to ruin a someone's photo. Not sure why you cant comprehend that, its pretty obvious

How do you know the intent is to "ruin?"

As you can see, not everybody considers those pictures "ruined." How does the person in the background of your photo know you consider it "ruined" if you don't have control over the people around you?

 

[ImAllEars]

Back in the old days, they called it "manners".

You are spot on my friend. Totally agree with your sentiment.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

How do you know the intent is to "ruin?"

As you can see, not everybody considers those pictures "ruined." How does the person in the background of your photo know you consider it "ruined" if you don't have control over the people around you?

I really don't understand why this is hard to understand, its common sense and good manners to respect other people and not be a fool making silly/dumb faces in someone else's photo.

The person in the background does not have the right to determine if its ruined or not, they shouldn't be there.... .period!

I can bet you thing, if after one honest mistake and warning, if some other fool did it again, they would never do it a third time!

AKK

 

[Magpie]

I have to admit, for argument sake I'm sitting in the break room at work & asked some co-workers there take on "photobombing".... 18yr old college student "hahaha hysterical" 35 yr old pharmacist "why is that hysterical? Your going to stop what your doing to ruin a family's vacation photo? You will look like an idiot and make a complete (explicit) out of yourself" Hopefully any photographer that sees it will in turn take a new photo. I'm one to let anything roll off my back, very easy going w/a great sense of humor. But, Im on your side... If you are DELIBERATELY photobombing a families photo and you do not know them you really are a loser.

You got me wondering if it's a generational thing, so I asked my 15yo son what he thought of photobombing.

He said, "I used to think it was a little funny, but not any more. It's over." He then went on to explain that back when photobombing was brand new, people would think, "Wow, that's so incredibly unexpected and cool!" But now people just think, "Wow, that's so incredibly lame and unoriginal."

He still thinks video bombing live TV is hilarious, though. And I kind of have to agree with him, as it's fun to watch the reporters on location trying to read their scripts with kids bouncing up and down behind them, waving.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

You got me wondering if it's a generational thing, so I asked my 15yo son what he thought of photobombing.

He said, "I used to think it was a little funny, but not any more. It's over." He then went on to explain that back when photobombing was brand new, people would think, "Wow, that's so incredibly unexpected and cool!" But now people just think, "Wow, that's so incredibly lame and unoriginal."

He still thinks video bombing live TV is hilarious, though. And I kind of have to agree with him, as it's fun to watch the reporters on location trying to read their scripts with kids bouncing up and down behind them, waving.

Its not a age or generation thing, its called... .manners and respect for other people!

AKK
AKK

 

[Magpie]

How do you know the intent is to "ruin?"

As you can see, not everybody considers those pictures "ruined." How does the person in the background of your photo know you consider it "ruined" if you don't have control over the people around you?

Sure some people won't be bothered, but some will. So it doesn't really matter what the intent is, if the person doing the photobombing is too inconsiderate and selfish to find out if their antics are welcome.

 

[Magpie]

Its not a age or generation thing, its called... .manners and respect for other people!

AKK
AKK

I agree. I just thought his response was interesting!