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nesgran
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What I really hate is bad business practices:

I just saw this: “To wrap up the year. We are letting our customers name there price! If you have a cooperate event, wedding, anniversary party or family reunion and need a photographer, we will let you name your price and we will give you a package with prints, and a disk of images, with possibly a photo-book. Make if you call us to schedule a sitting. you will receive 10 free 4×6 prints with your event. ”

I’m not sure it is bad business practice, in fact I believe with a photographer at that level it is very good practice as no one can be disappointed. I don’t think they should be shooting weddings though as they aren’t good enough to pull it off. It might have looked a lot better if they had someone editing who knew what they were doing rather than slapping on 50% extra saturation. I would put this on the upper end of fauxs personally. No question it is a faux but it looks a lot better than some disasters out there. I even think this one has a proper flash, unfortunately they don’t know that you need to get it on a bracket if you are going to use it in portrait position. A lot of the photos probably started out life looking quite good out of the camera before being molested in photoshop.

On a side note. I just found the perfect faux editing program because it ticks all the boxes, it has photoshop in the name, there is autocorrect, there is an example on the front showing selective colouring, there’s no boring sliders or numbers, you just click on whatever level of oversaturation you want etc. Perfect, oh, it is also free http://www.photoshop.com/tools/expresseditor?wf=editor