Reply To: Need some critiques :)

[fstopper89]

IHF, you have made a lot of good points as well. My analogy was more to illustrate that as long as the person is portraying themselves as what they are and not trying to lie to clients, they’re not a fauxtographer. If a person is willing to pay a small fee for that person’s time, and they’re not under the impression that they are paying for an established professional service when they are not, I don’t see harm in it. A lot of time friends and family are more than willing to pay someone a little bit of money when they are starting out to help support them. Before I ever advertised that I did photography, and was in college, my friend paid me a little bit to photograph an anniversary party for her parents. I had a camera, not a great one, and I “worked” for about 4 hours snapping pictures of the event and gave them a disk with edited photos. They editing was not top-notch and the photos were not spectacular, but she wasn’t looking to pay a real professional for it. I got a little money, some practice, and they got a decent/average record of the party.