Reply To: someone on this site is using my work

[mynameisRachel]

I don’t want to sound like a huge ass but I can honestly say I don’t know how you can make people pay for your “work”. I feel guilty when the pictures I take of other people aren’t up to my standards and I’m not even making them pay or pretending I’m a business!

What you’re offering people is snapshots (pictures that could have been taken with a cell phone or any old compact digital camera). Even if you do have a DSLR, they’re still snapshots and your over-done edits are ruining whatever your pictures could have been.

This picture lacks composition and I feel like it could have been taken with a phone because there is no sign of a shallow DOF, which is a phone thing to do. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=494223293933388&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366771335.&type=3&theater

Half of this child’s face isn’t even in focus. How is that possible?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=496958553659862&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366771333.&type=3&theater

I don’t want you to hate me, but honestly if you’re going to start a business, you should know the basics. Actually, you should know a bit of everything if you’re going to make people pay for your services.

I mean, I certainly wouldn’t go around making people pay for my plumbing services when I only know how to unplug a toilet with a plunger. . .