Murphy's Photography Laws

Strobes only explode when lots of people are watching.

- Jason Antman

The success of an assignment is inversely proportional to the product of its importance and the number of people watching.

- Jason Antman

A photographer's excitement increases the chance of fogging film, scratching prints, and deleting files.

- Jason Antman

Safelights - aren't.

- Jason Antman

No matter how long you've had a convention for marking film holders, you will forget it.

- Jason Antman

Lenses are attracted back to their source - hard rocks.

- Jason Antman

When the level of anticipation is highest, this sensor causes the back to flip open, exposing the film.

- Takura Razemba

Cameras are designed with a built-in sensor that senses the anticipation to develop the film.

When you shoot the night away and never have to stop, your film does not roll on to the take-up reel.

- Les Benton

Your batteries will always die during a long exposure with the shutter open.

Your batteries will always go dead, or you will have to put in a new film canister at the most inopportune moment.

Bugs always want to land on the mirror during a lens swap.

When you drop a lens cap, the inside part always lands face down in the mud.

The lens that falls is always the most expensive.

The self-importance of a client is inversely proportional to his position in the hierarchy, as is his deviousness and mischievousness.

Photo experience is something you never get until just after you need it.

A clean and dry camera is a magnet for dust, mud, and moisture.

Flashes will fail as soon as you need them.

There is no such thing as a perfect shot.

Client Intelligence is a contradiction.

The nature shots invariably happen on two occasions:

Professional photographers are predictable.

No well-dressed photographer is a photojournalist.

No photojournalist is well-dressed.

Things that must be shipped together as a set - won't.