[Dinkydonkeydo]

Thank you for your reply. 🙂 I agree that the close up eye shot wouldn’t be what people at shows would want, I wouldn’t do that at shows. 🙂 I’m still debating whether to go or not. I mean obviously they are a better business person than me, otherwise it would be me getting the work and not them. I suffer from crippling shyness and self doubt with my photography, of which my businessman boyfriend is trying to snap me out of, so this could be just what I need. 🙂 And what I also figure is I cannot possibly be any worse than them even if it is my first proper event, so I don’t have to feel quite so pressurised. 🙂 Thank you 🙂

[Dinkydonkeydo]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fotofabulous-equestrian-photography/200281763344929?fref=ts

Already had a rant about these guys, their photos are boring colours and blurry, yet they are paid to photograph horse shows and even weddings! The mind boggles! Also their website is very misleading as the four pictures on the homepage are pretty good, so it made me think that either it was a whole different company with the same name, or they just put crappy ones on facebook. But after entering the gallery it was immediately clear it was the same old rubbish. Eurgh. http://www.fotofabulous-equestrian-photography.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Claires-photography/174818299294890

Now this one, nice enough person, and she’s going about it the same why I am, self-teaching (I’ve never done photography as a subject, in fact I’m doing a Marine Biology degree for some reason!), but her photos range from ‘not that good’ to ‘alright I guess’, yet she gets loads of business granted it’s mostly friends and friends of friends but still. Maybe that’s where I’m going wrong- I need more blind/gullible friends!

http://www.picturethis-studio.co.uk/

These guys took the photos at my aunt’s wedding. They suck. Plain and simple. She did ask me to do it, but as I don’t consider myself to be ‘professional’ (but not a fauxtog either) I declined as I’m too terrified of ruining people’s big day. :L

 

    

[Dinkydonkeydo]

I’ve started noticing this in my area, I’ve just started to really think about doing photography as more than just a hobby. I could be classed as a fauxtographer I guess, but the difference is that I KNOW that I’m not good/confident enough to take wedding photos or something similar, as I just couldn’t handle the pressure of potentially cocking up and ruining everything. Granted, I do actually work for a professional wedding photographer as his assistant (I hold flashes and carry his bag around basically, but it’s good fun) and he does actually let me just take photos with whatever camera he’s not using at the time to take detail photos of the tables, and photobooth photos, and he’s said he wants me to do ‘snap and grab’ (?) photos of people on the dancefloor that just want cheesy group photos like you get in clubs, so I can’t be too bad! But what gets me is the local photographers that photograph horse shows/events that are rubbish!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fotofabulous-equestrian-photography/200281763344929?sk=timeline

For example this is one of them. This is their facebook page, and the first pictures I stumble across are blurry. I then notice they have a website:

http://www.fotofabulous-equestrian-photography.co.uk/

‘Oooo’ I think, as they look like they have better quality photos judging by the homepage photos. But then I look into their gallery and it’s the same old rubbish. To me it looks as though they’ve stolen some decent photos off the internet somewhere to use on their website to make them look better. I do photography and my boyfriend is a website designer, and it even had us fooled that they were good, until we looked at the gallery. False advertising. I have not found any of these photos in any of the albums. None of them even come close to looking like that!

And there are many more like them, but this is the most irritating, They do weddings as well! God help us all.

Rant over, it feels good to get that off my chest. xD

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