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JanJan
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So I added her on Facebook. I saw that her and her friends were talking about buying cameras so they can start a photography business. So clueless! Just because you buy a DSLR does not automatically make you a professional, let alone create professional looking-pictures.

Here is the screen shot of that conversation (she has a regular FB page, not a business page): http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p95/aablis/facebook.jpg

She’s been also getting a lot of work. I guess those people have been responding well to her $25 special. I think her customers are just as worse as her…they enable bad photography.

I also saw that she’s been doing this a lot longer than I and have not improved at all. She also accepts credit cards, but charges an additional $2.

Looking at her work makes me really want to raise my price, especially since I have received very good feedback about my work, but I’m hesitant because of my lack of experience and equipment. I feel that if someone is paying good money for photo shoots, the photographer should be able to shoot anything well at any given time. I still have to work on that, especially with flashes and strobes.

I also worry about doing paid photoshoots with people who has a better camera than mine. One time, I did a shoot with a family of 14 who met up during the Thanksgiving break and they were taking pictures of their own with a Canon 60D. This was clearly a better camera than my Nikon D3000.

But then of course, it’s the photographer, not the camera, that makes the difference. I saw that family’s pictures on their Facebook with the 60D and it was underexposed with too much saturation during the editing process.