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There is nothing wrong with assembly line photography because, as CC says, the business is about making money.  We as photographers may balk that it’s not “pure photography” but if you can balance quality with the “take a number” formula, then why not?

 

Yeah god forbid someone tries to *gasp* make some money to pay the bills. How plebeian of them. Look, I appreciate good photography and detest bad photography as much as anyone else here but photography is really a luxury at the end of the day. “Pure” photography (there’s a reason the starving artist stereotype exists) doesn’t always pay the bills and people have bills to pay.

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That one might actually be funny and cute as a behind the scenes outtake or something. Or maybe it could be used for a drunk baby meme or other comedy purposes. Not as “professional” photo of course, but it is a pretty hilarious snapshot.

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“You should read your replies, you guys need to relax.”

The same could be said of you. I went back and read your replies and you seem pretty uptight in many of your responses. Granted you did say sorry a few times but then you started to act uptight again (if I recall correctly).

 

“Lol, I’m not nor ever will be a pro,”

That’s no excuse for being so rude. You’re definitely not the only person who’s ever been rude on these boards but in this thread it was you who was mainly being rude.

 

 

 

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“Not the best, but after a quick look I’d say they weren’t bad enough to be listed here.”

@WSC True. On second glance they’re not good but also not anywhere near as awful as most of the fauxtogs listed here. It won’t allow me to delete my post unfortunately.

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http://www.likensphoto.com/

Flat lighting, pop up flash, selective coloring, and faces that are not in focus.

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https://www.facebook.com/JEHallPhotography

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@Crapulous

You can tell her but she probably won’t listen. It’s the Dunning-Kruger effect. People who are the least skilled tend to overestimate their abilities whereas people with more knowledge are able to realize that there’s a lot they don’t know.

Maybe post some links to REAL photographers on her page in the comments section lol. I’m naive enough to think that these fauxs will be humbled once they see some real photography. I almost became a faux when I first started out because I allowed the “OMG you’re so amazing!!” comments to get to my head a little. However, looking at some REAL photography immediately knocked some sense back into me and prompted me to delete my fauxtos from the internets.

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Any updates on the situation? Did the fauxtog get sued? Did the clients win?

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Awww lighten up. Not every wedding photo has to be so serious. I actually think the idea was cute and funny, although I agree it was VERY POORLY executed from a technical standpoint. The focus, lighting, and composition are terrible.

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My nine year old nephew has a better grasp of spelling and grammar. What a loser. I love how she writes, “Thanks for giving me a star for TRYING!”  Awww how cute. She’s trying to be “sassy” in response to the negative reviews. It doesn’t even look like she TRYING to improve her photography.

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And this is probably petty of me but I get so annoyed when I see people who have never studied photography buying a full frame as their first camera. It just seems so spoiled and entitled to me. I don’t know maybe I’m just jealous because I’m not wealthy enough to buy expensive gear lol.

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I can’t get over it. Do people like your friend ever look at the work of real photographers? I’ll admit, when I first got my Rebel xti, the praise from my friends did get to my head, even to the point where I started to think, “Hmmmm maybe I could make some money from this.” However, that idea prompted me to actually LEARN more about photography. Therefore I started going to local photography events, looking at photographer blogs etc. It took me about two seconds of looking at some photos at a local photog exhibit to for me to realize, “OHMYGOD my work is awful what the F**K was I thinking????!!!!!” I immediately felt extremely EMBARRASSED for thinking that I was actually good enough to go into business. How can these fauxtogs look at a photographer’s pictures and their own pictures without noticing the stark difference? I don’t get it. How does this happen when you have two fully functioning eyeballs?

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Call me crazy (or maybe I need to calibrate MY monitor??) but I actually like the wonky colors although the colors in the stone building pictures are too wonky, even for me. Other than the stone shots and the random one with the selective coloring, I quite liked your shots.

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I agree. The pictures are mediocre by professional standards but definitely not bad enough to be on the front page here. There’s a fine line between photography that’s merely mediocre and outright FAUXtography in my opinion. I don’t think these pictures cross the line into fauxtography. I actually liked some of the photographer’s ideas although they were poorly executed.

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It’s someone sharing a postsecret submission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostSecret), which is VERY popular among teens and twenty-somethings, on a tumblr blog. Anyway, my post was focused not on the website itself but on the mentality that all you need to do to be  a photographer is just push a button and not even bother to learn the basics. Even if that specific tumblr site is gone in a week, fauxtography is sadly here to stay.

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