Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography
We daily come across with so many photos some of them are good while some are not happening. Some photos are so ordinary that you hardly keep them in mind while some of the photos are simply outstanding and awesome pieces of photography that you reminisce them again and again, and just wonder how photographer has taken such a beautiful picture. You always summon up these photos to muster some clue that how these photos have been taken.
Here we are sharing photos that can boggle your mind. Some of the photos among them are perplexing and mystifying. So are you ready to get bewildered?
Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photos
All reflections considered (no photo manipulation)
phill.d
“It never ceases to amaze me the different colours and effects you can achieve in a boring concrete R.C.P drain.”
Sea in the sea
Incredible scenery. Apparently, the shot was made on the boat in the middle of the sea.
AmsterS@m The Wicked Reflectah
“Old School Beauty BMW reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam…no Photoshop, as usual, just some added saturation and contrast.”
Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, London
Last Click
I know what I want out of life. yet I still don’t know how to get there.
Evan
March 29th, 2009 8:39 pminteresting :)
damsnetworks
March 29th, 2009 8:46 pmplaying with minds :)
tschai
March 29th, 2009 8:46 pmweird, confusing and irritating indeed… ;)
that also sums up the internet…
jairaj ramendran
March 29th, 2009 8:51 pmeKcLeNT PiCtuReS…. :)
Joe
March 29th, 2009 9:16 pmThese photos are amazing. It’s awesome to see what a change of perspective can do to a scene.
swapnil
March 29th, 2009 9:17 pmweird, confusing and irritating indeed..
Some pics are too much of irritating.
I liked this one:
“I know what I want out of life. yet I still don’t know how to get there.”
James
March 29th, 2009 9:55 pmEveryone finishing sentences with smiley faces is irritating… :)
Chinmoy
March 29th, 2009 9:56 pmI think timing and composition are two prime factors for clicking these kind of photographs…Kudos to all those master minds who were behind the camera and smashingmagazine for making such a nice collection.
Sravan
March 29th, 2009 10:28 pmwow!! nice collection, thanks :)
DKumar M.
March 29th, 2009 10:47 pmI don’t know about confusing.. but yaa.. they surly are irritating. Thanks Aquil for sharing.
DKumar M.
Richard
March 29th, 2009 11:07 pmAwesome pictures! Thanks for the list :)
Jorge Linares
March 29th, 2009 11:18 pmQuite a few weird and amazing photos, but they just look like the photographers were out of ideas and they pushed themselves to find some. Sometimes the best photos come out unintentionally by the beauty of inner inspiration and motivation.
OverZero.it
March 29th, 2009 11:44 pm“Last Drop” is beautiful!
Mike@ssm
March 29th, 2009 11:53 pmThat made my day/night awful weather a little better.
Tim Holmes
March 30th, 2009 12:14 amSome nice shots..
Would have like to have seen a few more though, but still v.good.
Tim
Zen
March 30th, 2009 12:14 amIrritating indeed!
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Quakeulf
March 30th, 2009 12:23 amYes, moar plickes plockes! :3
chris
March 30th, 2009 12:35 amyay, some awesome pictures…
bycolor
March 30th, 2009 1:00 amInteresting photos, but not quite “weird, confusing and irritating”. I expected more.
kcrazy
March 30th, 2009 1:08 amjust ok ! nothing new ! something that we have always seen !
Idemium
March 30th, 2009 1:13 amThose picts confirm that perspective changes everything … and not only on photography.
Andrew
March 30th, 2009 1:21 amThere are some good images here, though none are particularly ‘irritating’.
iphone-designer
March 30th, 2009 2:33 amHey Really Great Collection.. some photos are really confusing.. and weird
Jay Werra
March 30th, 2009 2:56 amGreat Pictures.
Michael
March 30th, 2009 2:58 amSome are psychedelic. Wow.
James
March 30th, 2009 3:24 amCool photos although can’t say any irritated me!!!
Andris
March 30th, 2009 3:32 amSome pretty nice ones here. Like the BisyBackson the most.
Liberation
March 30th, 2009 4:30 amToo funny! Alternate title: Pretentious Photography
photofolio
March 30th, 2009 4:36 amIrritating? Not at all. Fascinating! At least as long it’s not the love child of a crappy picture & photoshop …
runner
March 30th, 2009 4:41 amgood photography
Dianne
March 30th, 2009 5:18 amNice pictures…
Nico
March 30th, 2009 5:26 amwow, nice!
Chantal
March 30th, 2009 5:43 amIrritating, Creepy, Self-absorbed, Pretentious, Contrived, Hackneyed and Pointless Photography (‘cept the beamer – love the beamer shot – doesn’t belong here).
bs.kishore
March 30th, 2009 6:04 amquite interesting. some tips on the techniques involved would have been nice..
Angry
March 30th, 2009 7:04 amHey, remember when you wrote about web design? Or at the very least, techniques in digital art? For weeks, you’ve been going the absurdly lazy route and doing tons of meaningless “gallery” posts about photography that’s irrelevant to web design as a whole.
Somebody please take this site back to its roots. One relevant post a week is better than five that suck.
Smashing Editorial
March 30th, 2009 7:26 am@Angry (#35): we try to cover various fields in our magazine. One of them is Inspiration. Please feel free to take a look at the front page and see that last week we had a number of web design-related posts.
snnaqvi
March 30th, 2009 7:38 amInteresting, I like these.
frommage
March 30th, 2009 7:49 amusing technical skill to say nothing. maybe there is point of view, but it isn’t very interesting. forgetful moments.
Chris Robinson
March 30th, 2009 8:02 amsome interesting shots
john
March 30th, 2009 8:13 amMy favorite is easily “Touch the Moon.” What the hell?…I couldn’t stop laughing.
Glynn Smith
March 30th, 2009 8:30 am@Smashing Editorial
A post about “irritating photography” doesn’t sound all that inspirational to me.
marie
March 30th, 2009 8:52 amSome photos give me a good smile indeed. Thanks Smashing, a refreshing post. I like it.
Tommie Hansen
March 30th, 2009 8:57 amA nice little showcase. I like these… one doesn’t necessarily learn anything but it’s just nice to relax and check it out. :)
TomTaste
March 30th, 2009 9:08 amthats very, very great.
thanks
freshalex
March 30th, 2009 11:17 amThis is weird: weird pic
Michael
March 30th, 2009 1:14 pmReminds me of the Stephen Wright Joke: “What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?”
Sam
March 30th, 2009 2:10 pmFly by .. is a long exposure shot of a plane landing .. nothing weird confusing or irritating about it. Same with a whole bunch of the other pictures in this post.
Doug Aghassi
March 30th, 2009 2:45 pmCool, but many of those “photographs” are actually works of graphic design, not pure photographs.
Amanda
March 30th, 2009 7:29 pmlol A lot of these pics I had to think about for a while and tilt my head and such. Very cool. :)
zhang.h
March 30th, 2009 7:58 pmVery interesting ！
How can I buy your magazine in China?
nono
March 30th, 2009 8:13 pmhahahaha =)))))) but those pictures look very cool ;)
Danish Refai
March 30th, 2009 8:19 pmThat was a great Collection !!!
They really are irritating !!!
Louis
March 30th, 2009 9:02 pmVery interesting collection.
Just out of curiosity, how on earth did the 1st paragraph of text that introduces this piece get past the editors of SM? That is atrocious english. I understand if the author does not speak English as a first language, that’s fine, but somebody at SM could have taken about 20 seconds to rewrite that first paragraph. Very disappointing to see something like that — considering SM is obviously doing quite well and can afford proper copy editing.
Russ
March 31st, 2009 12:06 amWhats the point in this article? Rubbish.
Vishal
March 31st, 2009 1:34 amBest !!!
Waqas
March 31st, 2009 3:00 amSimply F Awesome,,,
Megha
March 31st, 2009 3:09 amGreat collection!!!
kane
March 31st, 2009 4:28 amvery ugly photos
jDINH04
March 31st, 2009 6:35 amWow very nice pieces! thanks for sharing!
Ethan
March 31st, 2009 7:05 am@ Louis – I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’ve been very annoyed at the lack of rewrites on this site lately. ESL is one thing, but come on. If I were to write in Spanish I would hope that a Spanish editor would give me some help. I would need it badly.
Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography is a totally subjective title. As the comments attest, what someone finds “irritating” could be great to someone else. I have no issue with photography articles, in fact I think they very much belong on a web design focused site. If you are going to title an article as a critique, fine – I could use more thoughtful analysis as to why that’s the case. I’m all for creative counterpoint but this really falls short of that.
Eddie
March 31st, 2009 7:20 ammy, i love it
Whitney G
April 1st, 2009 4:36 amEh. The majority of these photos are not even photography, but extreme post-processing and graphic design. The only photo that truly does anything for me is the “Fish Face” – an example of actual photography – which is perfectly composed, witty, and interesting.
I’m sorry, but most of this stuff just looks like emo/hipster I’m-trying-so-hard-to-deconstruct-art-and-make-a-message crap that you see every day. There’s nothing exciting or inspiring about it. Give me talented photographers who can capture the beauty and/or chaos of reality, or who can frame a great idea (like with “Fish Face”), and forget these Photoshop-addicted wannabes.
Josh
April 1st, 2009 6:07 amWow! Very nice collection. I like FE the most.
SublimeYe
April 1st, 2009 11:32 pmGood collection. Thanks)
Davit
April 2nd, 2009 6:53 pmNice Pics… I don’t get some of them. lol
Bejoys Vijayan
April 3rd, 2009 3:00 amthose photos are inspiration ideas.. :) great jobs. great shots and great manipulations..
but I dont understand why you guys calling it Irritating..
Thanks for posting!
smashingmagazine_fan
April 3rd, 2009 6:48 pmThese are just awful and not very creative. I think that’s what makes them irritating, we expect more and get less.
Amy
April 4th, 2009 10:25 pmsome are amazing~
I like these so much~
thank u
Rene
April 5th, 2009 1:31 pmSome are creepy!
Hardy
April 6th, 2009 11:42 pmWow! That’s some insane stuff! Great!
Vinicius
April 7th, 2009 8:09 amForgive my (very very) poor english…
“Sea in the sea” was just made with an different angle of mirror, not necessarly made from an boat.
“Sea in the sea” foi feito só com um angulo diferente do espelho, não necessariamente feito a partir de um barco.
qwe
April 8th, 2009 6:51 amIrritating indeed ;)
katherine curtis
April 9th, 2009 11:15 ami love it. :]
Yong
April 12th, 2009 6:28 pmvery interesting piece of work
Zespiral
April 25th, 2009 3:59 amI’m glad to be in this selection !
Thank’s !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zespiral/2818172965/
BisyBackson
April 26th, 2009 1:12 pmThanks for being selected here !
Calvin
April 30th, 2009 10:10 amPhotoshopped.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
Jason Rydquist
May 2nd, 2009 12:56 pmAs one of the photographers featured and a friend of some of the others, I feel that I should respond to the claims of heavy manipulation and post processing. For the most part, the manipulation or trickery you’re seeing has been done in front of the lens by hand without the crutch of Photoshop.
Sure, some of the work rests on the border of design and photography, but does that make it pretentious or irritating? Surely nobody thinks that about Strom Thorgerson’s album covers.
I can’t speak for everybody—Hermin Abramovitch clearly pastes things into his photos to make them more interesting—but I’m motivated by visualizing intangible ideas often only expressed through words or capturing what is overlooked in daily life, not just sensationalizing little things.
Whitney G
May 7th, 2009 4:46 pm@Jason Rydquist
If you like what you create, then you’ve done your job, haven’t you? While I understand your desire to clear up any misunderstandings about manipulation and post-processing, you’re not going to convince people who don’t like these photos in particular, or this style of art in general, to change their preferences.
Contrary to your claim, I’m sure that there are people who do find Storm Thorgerson’s artwork irritating. I personally like most of his album covers, although not all. The cover of The Cranberries’ Bury the Hatchet feels too forced for me, while I love the relative simplicity of his artwork for Umphrey’s McGee’s Safety in Numbers.
Oftentimes? Yes.
And some photographers and/or graphic designers can make this work. Many, however, just come across as trying too hard to be deconstructive and relevant. I prefer my art to be more sincere than that.
AddaxSoft
May 21st, 2009 4:47 amAmazing :)
Monica McNeil
July 9th, 2009 2:21 pmall i have to say is wow. they are crazy good
and very intresting. i love it
whatistrue+fake
July 20th, 2009 4:08 pmGreat job. i feel so irritated now!
khairul
August 16th, 2009 6:22 amgreat work!
Bonitas Uruquat
September 22nd, 2009 11:06 pmHand Vagina, have I found you at last???
May
November 17th, 2009 1:10 pmReally amazing collection!
Jovana
February 11th, 2010 8:16 pmThese photos are amazing.. :)
simi
March 19th, 2010 5:26 amwow!!!!!!!!!
Yash
September 11th, 2011 2:28 amLovely incredible
Tom Dwyer
September 28th, 2011 11:21 pmWow, why did you stop adding images? I’ll share this with my classes for sure.