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Nightrose, I’m the same. Some of my images from a few years back that I thought were excellent at the time are just nowhere near what I would consider to be my level of work now. I see loads of photographers on facebook who’s latest albums are of a good quality, but if you scroll back a couple of years it starts to get a bit fauxtog.  There are others who start off  faux and stay that way. I wonder if willingness to listen to advice could be the difference between the two?

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@browneyedgirl89 – I looked at one of the albums on the fauxtogs fb page, cringed at every single image in there!  I hope the woman wears the trousers in that relationship as it would be such a shame if she is talked into hiring the fauxtog.

 

ps, I love your work.

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I know a lady through facebook who was a party planner, then one day she sent me a message to my inbox. It said something like this.

” I have been out and bought a good camera and a vinyl backdrop. I was wondering if I could use your business name to advertise my photography services”.

Well, my jaw hit the floor. A day earlier she was a party planner, one shopping trip later, ta-da, she’s a photographer.

I said no, incase you’re wondering lol

Anyway, she set up her “photography” business and the results to this day are truly awful. To start off with EVERYTHING was way under exposed and she appeared to be coloring in the white background with the brush tool. From there she progressed to a white vignette (she still uses that). Now her images are ALL over exposed with very very little contrast. She doesn’t even adjust the contrast when she converts images to black and white, so they just look like they have been faded by the sun for twenty years. Any head and shoulders shots she takes are OOF or have camera shake. Her first  photography album on her facebook profile was called “my attempt at photography lol”, yet she had already started a page offering photography to paying customers.

Well, I was angry, but now I just find it funny. She must have seen my client base was well established and just decided she wanted in on  that. It was never going to happen.

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I would choose the first link. The images need work in terms of exposure, and some more creativity, but the images on the second link look like they have been eaten by a bear and puked back up.

You do still have a lot to learn, but you are not a terrible photographer by any means.

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I’ve submitted loads of fauxtogs, but none of them have ever been posted on the website.

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