Incompetence confessions

[Tristin]

Are there aspects of your gear or photography you know that you are incompetent in?

I have no experience using AF still, despite having a D750.   

[abergon]

My areas of incompetence would be too long to list in full, and as a rule I am not happy with my work, or when I am I am not really sure why, which in itself I analyse as a sign of incompetence.

AF continues to baffle me, but I have a Nikon Df with an add-on split-screen, and my main lens is a PC-E 24mm, so I do not worry too much about AF Even though the PC-E is my main lens, I am sure I do not have the competence to master all its subtleties, far from it.

Probably my main incompetence area is post-processing. I have spent a lot of time with Photoshop, purchased online training, a Wacom tablet, I read Adobe's reference manual, and I still don't have a clue and am unable to reproduce what I am taught. So for the moment I use DxO Pro which is much less intimidating.

[Frank Fremerey]

Presentation. I ofter have a lot of good work to present to customers or the web. Then I fail to present the pictures well...

[elsa hoffmann]

Speedlights. I own THREE and still dont know how to use them - 11 years down the line 

[BW]

My incompetence run so deep in certain photographic areas, that I am not able to point it out. I feel that capturing a really sharp image or sharpening an image so that it is rendered sharp in print or screen is one of the areas I could improve my skills.
Speedlights... Dont get me started

[Jakov Minić]

layers and brushes, and to get a sharp shot from time to time

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Seeing. My photos never look like how my eyes saw the scene

[Matthew Currie]

In some areas I avoid conspicuous incompetence by not involving myself at all.  Speedlights?  What are those?

In others I'm just plain incompetent.  Post processing among them. I miss slides.

[Airy]

1) Studio lighting
2) Flash fill-in
3) Making proper use of a wide angle
4) Lack of awareness of incompetence in most other domains

[Akira]

In short, lack of ability to express my inspirations in an satisfactory way in my images.

In long, too many to write them all. 

[stenrasmussen]

I consider myself mostly incompetent in everything photographically related.
I yearn it but cannot seem to learn it the way I dream it.

[Andrea B.]

I fail to develop themes and create coherent portfolios of work. I'm too scattershot!

[JohnBrew]

layers and brushes

100% clueless on these two subjects.

[elsa hoffmann]

I so wish  I could help - I totally can't live without layers

[paul_k]

I have a problem smooching up with clients and potential patrons

Which is quite a problem when you're a.o. shoot fashion 

Fortunately I over the years have gathered a number of contacts who are willing to look beyond that and forgive me my 'bad' manners 

But it's a real problem, it's like Popeye the Sailor Man says 'I Yam what I  Yam, and that's all that I am'