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ParticipantShutter Bugg… what’s with that horrible name? And why type up your price list and then take a tilted photo of your computer screen? https://www.facebook.com/Adirondack.Shutter.Bugg.photography/photos/a.657320457694719.1073741903.106896982737072/795403303886433/?type=1&theater
Jake is very inconsistent. He had a few, especially more recent ones, that I would consider pretty nice. But some that WCS shared are train wrecks.
Jen/Three Little Birds is awful. She joins the rest of the fauxs who post weird irrelevant things in poor grammar on her page. Keep it professional or keep it off your business page.
KML: She started charging $20 for a 1-hour shoot, now increased to $25 per hour. She has no concept of using light- the very basis of photography. She is one of those who call themselves “natural light photographers” simply because she shoots outdoors. Not because she actually knows how to manipulate natural light properly.
Participanthttps://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Moment-in-Time-4-Photography/1575817565968782
Cliche name, bad photos, charging money.
And what is with this website? http://amomentintime4.com/
“Unparalleled services, dedicated to becoming one of the top companies in the industry.”
ParticipantWhat really got me for a moment was somewhere in the comment thread (in the second image I linked) he had made a comment and then deleted it. I saw it on my phone, then when I refreshed it was gone and he made a different comment defending it as an “old movie look” or something. The comment that he deleted was “That’s why it’s not blurry.” But it is blurry. I’m not sure why he said that, if he was trying to say we were wrong in saying it was blurry or if he legitimately doesn’t understand what blurry or out of focus means. I would say 90% of the photos on his page are either out of focus, or have motion blur going on. This one should have never made it off of the camera: https://www.facebook.com/498124273533390/photos/a.505573086121842.121173.498124273533390/897038286975318/?type=1&theater
The lighting of many is very orange and harsh and appear to have a pop-up flash used, however I don’t know for sure. His camera has a pop-up flash so I wouldn’t be surprised. https://www.facebook.com/498124273533390/photos/ms.c.eJwlx8cRADAIA7CNcphgwPsvloJ~_kmmnFWWVYbH0Tm9WeKLn6n9wXtq8hwMHnxYM8Q~-~-.bps.a.909344119078068.1073741883.498124273533390/909365285742618/?type=1&theater
The few recent outdoor shots of the woman (https://www.facebook.com/498124273533390/photos/a.505573086121842.121173.498124273533390/939908922688254/?type=1&theater) are in focus, but the composition is just not flattering and the depth of field is so large you see mundane things like buildings in the background which don’t help the image at all. The backgrounds are altogether distracting. I am highly doubting he is shooting in manual mode. And he “liked” his own photo.
The noise and grain seem to be a very common issue. It seems the camera he is using is not capable of good focus and being noise-free in these darker environments. I mean this woman has green dots in her skin. https://www.facebook.com/498124273533390/photos/pb.498124273533390.-2207520000.1423965397./825839294095218/?type=3&theater
Come on dude. I was taking more interesting and more in-focus sunset photos at the age of 8 with a disposable camera. https://www.facebook.com/498124273533390/photos/pb.498124273533390.-2207520000.1423965913./601270073218809/?type=3&theater
With his strange grammatical errors and misspellings (both on his page and in the comment thread) I have to wonder if he is from the U.S. natively. If he is, he seems to fit into the common denominator of fauxtographers also having poor grammar skills. If he is not a native speaker than forgive me for that observation.
I have to honestly wonder how many actual “bookings” and hired work he has gotten. He has been in business supposedly since 2010. It just seems so odd that after that many years his work still looks like that of a very new beginner shooting on auto. He also titles himself as the “lead photographer” of his company. Are there really others working for him? It doesn’t seem so. I always find it an odd coincidence that many fauxtographers refer to themselves as “us” and “we” like they are a multi-photographer successful company.
ParticipantUgh! This is when you get into an argument with a fauxtographer! I am the one with the pink box. Others left comments as well early on in the thread. I looked at this guy’s page, and it’s nothing but some guy-with-camera who attends low-level “fashion shows” with his (what appears to be) oversized point-and-shoot camera, taking blurry and grainy pictures of women. Then he just went on and on, calling me a cyber bully, a “no talent hack,” a witch, and a plethora of other things using poor grammar. Even after the admin stepped in, the guy continued to freak out. They always seem to resort to telling people their photos suck or they have no talent, and it’s always out of jealousy. I can assure you that the photos displayed on my page are in focus, not grainy, have nice light and color, etc. and are a million times better than his. Here is his “business page:” https://www.facebook.com/pages/PH-PROS/498124273533390?sk=timeline
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ParticipantJust came back to this thread. I haven’t heard any updates unfortunately. I did look at her website again and it’s less craptastic than the first time I looked, but she still has a ton of awful photos. There are a few that look better, so I honestly wonder if she has improved or stolen images. Hmm. If she has improved, she surely should remove all those out of focus images and overly-processed ones as well.
ParticipantYep, Lightroom 4 will even recognize the files from the 5DIII. That’s what I’m using. If you don’t want to upgrade, you can do an extra step: Download the DNG converter (for free) from Adobe’s website. You’ll have to first manually copy and paste the files from your camera to a location on your computer’s hard drive. Then, run them through the DNG converter. DNG is a “universal” RAW format and makes any RAW files backwards/forwards compatible with new or old versions of RAW-reading software. Once you convert the files to DNG, you can import them to your Lightroom library and they’ll behave just the same. DNG files are nice because they don’t give you those “sidecar” XMP files that normally show up alongside your .CR2 RAW files. No degradation of quality or edit-ability occurs when converting to DNG. Before I upgraded to Lightroom 4, I use the converter for a few sessions. Now, I actually copy all my RAW files as DNG right away upon import anyway. So I can say DNG is a perfectly good option.
ParticipantPS new fauxtog for the list. This one has been doing her thing for a few years now, with little to no improvement.
The client (who appears to be her friend as well) jokingly whined for her posting this shot, and she replied that she shouldn’t have posed that way. Besides that, she is obviously trespassing on the tracks.
ParticipantAleah has a small handful of shots that may have had potential, had she gotten the technical stuff correct or made the shot more interesting. Then some of it is train-wreck material. Not saying she can’t improve, but with the volume of “work” on her page it appears as if she’s quite content to keep doing exactly what she is doing.
Tiffany, slander is for one thing verbal, and the term you are looking for is “libel.” Libel first has to be proven to be untrue statements that have caused measurable hard to a business or person. One, I highly doubt Aleah is actually in business, and two, an opinion or review on the work of a person or business cannot be considered libel or slander. If I went online saying “I went to Aleah’s photography business and contracted measles and was in the hospital and got this huge bill!” and that never happened, well, that would be libel. Or, “Aleah took my pictures and was a complete jerk and swearing at my kids.” Yes, more libel or slander (if it didn’t happen, of course- sometimes these things are he said, she said).
And yes, I’m a professional photographer and am legally in business and produce high-quality work and am constantly learning as well. I have a life, a pretty busy one actually, but sometimes I come here to discuss photography and get some comic relief.
ParticipantLol. Got in a mini argument on a photography story tonight with a fauxtographer. She was saying “I’m a photographer too! I wanna see the images they paid $xxxx for!” so I called her out that she’s not a professional photographer (serious over-softening using some free editing program, photoshopping people’s faces into fake scenes, etc.) and that she can’t judge another photog’s work until she knows how to use a camera. Oops, got a little heated. Then she comes back and says that she never said she was a professional photographer, that she has gotten countless awards and has been published, and that she is doing it for cheap out of the goodness of hear heart. Why do they ALWAYS justify it by saying they’re not “really a professional?” Ok, so she is charging money and advertising her services, but she concedes she isn’t a professional… smh.
ParticipantHere is your typical, “post photos in large photography group asking for CC, get good CC, get angry, delete post” fauxtographer. If she just said she was a beginner and learning, I’d have sympathy. But I searched for her page and found it, along with her saying she’ll do a session for $45 when other photographers charge $500. She doesn’t know the most basic things about lighting.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tiffany-Gail-Photography/1597479723815490
This gem. Can you find anything RIGHT about it?
ParticipantJust searched the most cliché name in photography and found this gem. She’s got it all!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Picture-Perfect-Photography/319883941554525
ParticipantRegarding Recession Photography: Horrible name. This screams “budget photography” to me. Her “groupings” thing makes no sense, and she misspelled “platinum” in her senior package pricing.
I didn’t see anything that screamed fauxtographer though. Her photos are just “meh” and pricing is kind of in line with it. I wouldn’t pay her but I wouldn’t quite lump her in with the fauxtogs either. I didn’t look too far though, maybe I missed something really bad on her website.
December 1, 2014 at 1:06 pm in reply to: you're not a real photographer because your camera is too small/ not full frame #23285ParticipantAnother example. Awhile back in a photography forum a girl posted that she was having issues with a client being dissatisfied with her son’s senior photos. We were asking what was up and I asked if she could send a link to the gallery. She sent it to me and there were only 12 photos. I asked if there were more and she said those were the only ones that turned out and that’s what she gave the client. They were all really blah, all had a green/yellow cast. I downloaded them in full-resolution to get a 100% view of them. All but two were unacceptably soft in focus and all had terrible ISO noise (grain and color splotches). She shot most of them in a woods and there was harsh light coming in from one angle which added to the bad color/exposure. I told her what I was seeing in the photos. They were also not shot in RAW. I said that with how soft some were, they wouldn’t be able to make a good print over a 4×6 or 5×7. I asked the hypothetical question- “Was your client expecting to be able to make large prints?” She said “I don’t know… we never discussed expectations.” In the metadata I saw they were shot with a T2i and a kit lens.
^ ^There. That is a supposed “professional” advertising and charging money for photos she couldn’t stand behind.
ParticipantThis person was just suggested in a buy/sell group for doing family photos.
November 30, 2014 at 8:55 pm in reply to: you're not a real photographer because your camera is too small/ not full frame #23280ParticipantAll interesting arguments here.
I do know a few pros who produce awesome work and they are using crop bodies. Yes, these are few and far between… but it’s obviously working for them. I would agree that if I were attending a wedding and saw the photographer using an entry-level body and kit lenses that I would seriously question their ability. My friend’s cousin got married last summer and they couldn’t afford her to shoot their wedding (she did their engagements though, and she’s a really good wedding photographer) and she said the photographer at the wedding was shooting with a 5D Mark II but seemed to be posing everyone awkwardly and she was doubting his skills. Sure enough, her cousin shared the gallery password to friends and family and the entire album of like 500 photos is just awful. Poor lighting, blah depth of field, horrible posing, and it’s like he managed to catch the worst possible expressions in the candids. And that all came from a nice full-frame camera. His skills as a photographer were seemingly nonexistent.
The supposed best digital cameras out there now are the medium format and large format cameras like the Hasselblad. Heck I could never afford that as a system, unless I took out a mortgage-size loan. But does it make me a faux because I’m not using the best camera available? No, for one in many cases that kind of camera is probably overkill anyway, but I can produce sharp, well-exposed photos that can be printed extremely large for my clients with the equipment I do have.
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