Hilarious Video Perfectly Captures Why Some Photography Tutorials Drive Us Crazy

If you're like most of us, you've learned a good chunk of your photographic knowledge from tutorials. The Internet is chock full of them — some good, some bad. We couldn't help but laugh at this parody, though, which so accurately captures what it's like to watch some tutorials.

None of us have enough time anymore. Call it a photographer thing, call it a cultural thing, call it life. Whatever the reason is, as we've grown accustomed to having less and less time, we've also lost some patience for, shall we say, inefficiency of presentation. Internet culture has made us want the payoff instantly. Creating good, succinct tutorials is tough; it means knowing exactly what you're going to say and saying it both clearly and efficiently as soon as the camera is on. Perhaps the most important, yet most often overlooked aspect, is knowing what to leave out. We've all seen just such a video in which we're only looking for a 20-second explanation buried in 15 minutes of buildup, random photography anecdotes, and a real-time debate of the merits of using a blue-colored mouse. We fast-forward, scrub back and forth, and desperately search for that magic interval, only to end up with the outcome depicted in the above video. Alas, such is life on the Internet.