someone on this site is using my work

[sweetemotionsphoto]

I am the owner of a Photography company and I recieved a message that someone on this site is using my work.  Needless to say I am not very happy with that.  If it has SEP on the bottom of through the middle then that photo is mine.  Although I do have some older work that doesn’t have SEP on it anywhere. But that was before 2009. If you would like to check out my work. Please visit my facebook page.   http://www.facebook.com/SWEETEMOTIONSPORTRAITS thank you

[dont.care]

I find it highly unlikely anyone is using your work for anything other than examples..  No one here that could be construed as being a regular on this forum, would be claiming your work as their own. Highly unlikely.. As far as not being happy about it; there’s little, very little you can do.

[dont.care]

The mere quality, or lack thereof, I should say–is my reasoning. More than likely, someone on your “photo business page”, shared your photos here..

[cameraclicker]

No one on this site is “using” your photo.  Presently your photo is the last one linked in the post: Fauxtogs who should end up on the main page…  The photo linked is https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=531930550162662&set=a.481446001877784.113375.471369699552081&type=1&theater.

I suspect you got the dubious honour of gracing the pages here because you did not remove the girl’s shadow.  Except that the air above the clouds is typically -40 degrees and there is not enough oxygen to sustain a person, the idea is cute but the execution is lacking.  It is being held up as an example of poor editing.

[cameraclicker]

Since you are here, and offered a link to check out your work:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=561260747229642&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater has a very sketchy clipping mask, I can see, even from the crummy quality of the FaceBook image that the couple was shot somewhere else and cut out, then pasted in front of the background.

In https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=561237100565340&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater, my eye goes straight to those power lines and I just can’t seem to get it off of them, even though the rest of the scene looks nice, I keep seeing those power lines.

Why are you showing https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=559367674085616&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater?  If you are shooting digital, you should have been able to immediately see the light was in the mirror, move slightly and shoot it again.  That photo appears a couple of times and both seem to have spot colour — another sin.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=559346214087762&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater is another example of a terrible clipping mask.

In https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=554371044585279&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater, the spot colour of the bride makes a degree of sense, but half her dress has a red tint.  It looks like she was standing beside a fire truck when the photo was taken.

In https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=552760798079637&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater, what is with the black line running down her front from neck to picture bottom?

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=559367657418951&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater has a lot of digital noise and the strangest window I have seen in a long time.  It may be bent like that in real life but it does not translate well in the photo.

In https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=551723614850022&set=pb.471369699552081.-2207520000.1366721778.&type=3&theater, the window frame and individual panes seem square,  in the previous photo they were bent, is the model shot in front of a backdrop with the window painted on it?

I’ve been through a dozen of your photos on facebook, it feels like a lot more.  I would say they were all sub-standard.  If you have been charging for photography since 2009, your photos should be a lot better than what I just looked at.   A lot of what I am complaining about is post production work.  You might see a vast improvement simply by hiring a good retoucher.

 

[pplareclueless]

Or just give your photographs SOOC, that is Straight out of  the camera, untouched.  Holy crap, she charges a crap ton for this, and people pay you??

[pplareclueless]

This girl could have been a huge portfolio builder for you, and you ruined it with your post processing.   Learn photoshop and learn what is popular today, and quit ripping people off. https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/625538_539444679411249_1156275767_n.jpg

[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. . .

[Worst Case Scenario]

I can’t stop laughing at this! It would have been funny enough if SWEET EMOTION PHOTOS had just appeared on the front page. But to go to the bother of signing up to this site, just so you can complain that someone is using your pictures !!!!!! You really don’t have a clue about how bad your work is – and you think it’s so good that people want to claim it as their own?  AMAZING!

[therealijm]

Not until I found this site and THIS post did I understand it when old Pros say ‘Now any idiot with a DSLR can call themselves a Photographer, it’s killing the business’

 

I don’t like to talk ill of people, especially people I don’t know, but I feel it’s fair game given that SEP brought this up and asked to have us ‘check out’ their work.

SEP –  I say this with the utmost respect. Please listen to the feedback offered and rethink your approach. If you have a true passion for photography, stop what you are doing now. Learn your camera intermittently, learn the basics of post-capture editing, learn what works. You should nail one genre before you take on the world. But seriously, stop what you are doing now.

[cameraclicker]

mynameisRachel found photos that are even worse than the ones I looked at!  The shallow depth of field she was looking for in the soccer field photo is a really shallow depth of field in the child’s face photo.  Nothing says soccer field like a spot coloured handless girl, arms up and face against a chain link fence!  Where did her hands go!  The title says Soccer Field London, but it could just as easily be Drug Bust, or Low Security Prison!  Without a game in progress a soccer field is just a flat piece of grass with a couple of large nets, and in this photo I can’t find any nets.  Boring.

[JanJan]

This is an example of someone “using your work” aka stealing, when someone takes your pictures and puts their watermark on it

http://carusophotography.com/blog/photographers-stealing/

Your work, on the other hand, is so bad that it mostly serves as a reference or even a cautionary tale of a “fauxtographer”. As an aspiring and new photographer, I go to far lengths to make sure my pictures does not look similar to yours! I’m surprised none of your pictures ended up on the front page.

For the wedding pictures, I hope you were a family friend, relative, or 2nd shooter. If you were the primary shooter, I’m surprised you haven’t gotten sued yet or ended up on Judge Joe Brown – http://youtu.be/4Lz-07D5KoE.

[pplareclueless]

I have been looking at her work over and over, and I swear my 12 year old has more knowledge and creativity then her.  She charges $350.00 for a senior session.  THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY!   Are people really paying for that shotty work?  Take a class, read some blogs, get some books, mentor another photographer, SOMETHING… do anything… save yourself from any further embarrassment.  This almost made me feel sorry for you.

[pplareclueless]

Judge Joe Brown lol… I would have SUED you in heartbeat for sure

[IHF]

Didn’t go through the OP’s port.  just reading through this thread, I get the just.

Just had to say something.  $350 for senior photo services is a very fair and reasonable price, and that reaction above just proves how fauxtography has effected people’s perception of the actual value of family tog services and products, and screams to me “I am ignorant!”.  Pro family photographers are people who make a very modest living from what they do, and $350 is far from ripping anyone off (when quality is not is question that is).  This tog may have jumped the gun into business before she learned how to photograph, but I have to at least give her credit for charging to make a profit, and not undervaluing family photography services.  If all fauxs followed her lead we would see a much more even playing field in front of us.

I really don’t care if her work is garbage at this point.  If what the poster above said is true.  At least this tog charges appropriately, and the public is able to decide by quality wether to hire her or not, and not by how stinkin cheap she is.

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