I follow a handful of photography related groups on facebook. Sometimes there are nice tips and advice, lately most of it is not quite that.
What I see are a lot of stay at home moms who charge peanuts for taking pictures. They use presets they bought from someone who is laughing all the way to the bank. Backgrounds are WAY over exposed, items in the background are often sticking out of peoples heads and limbs are often cut off. They follow up with overpriced prints. The others in the group swoon over these images as if they were posted by Ansel Adams.
These people are asking questions you would certainly think someone who has reached the level to charge $$ for their 'work' would know the answer to. I see a rise in questions that can be answered with a 10 second google search or, god for bid, opening the owners manual to the camera they own.
I get a feel for those of you who are true professionals and take pride in the very good work you do. I can see now how these fly by night mothers who overcharge for prints and take bad images and use post processing to make them worse are somehow becoming the 'norm'. Sad to see this.
Being here gives me a sense of reality and I'm glad to have the opportunity to learn from you.
Sunday rant done :-/
I did take some cool shots of the kids playing in the snow today - looking forward to sharing them this week
What I see are a lot of stay at home moms who charge peanuts for taking pictures. They use presets they bought from someone who is laughing all the way to the bank. Backgrounds are WAY over exposed, items in the background are often sticking out of peoples heads and limbs are often cut off. They follow up with overpriced prints. The others in the group swoon over these images as if they were posted by Ansel Adams.
These people are asking questions you would certainly think someone who has reached the level to charge $$ for their 'work' would know the answer to. I see a rise in questions that can be answered with a 10 second google search or, god for bid, opening the owners manual to the camera they own.
I get a feel for those of you who are true professionals and take pride in the very good work you do. I can see now how these fly by night mothers who overcharge for prints and take bad images and use post processing to make them worse are somehow becoming the 'norm'. Sad to see this.
Being here gives me a sense of reality and I'm glad to have the opportunity to learn from you.
Sunday rant done :-/
I did take some cool shots of the kids playing in the snow today - looking forward to sharing them this week
