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ParticipantNot to mention that the ACTUAL organizer of the event, Charlie, asked the girlfriend to come back. So I think they were always planning on having 3 vendors, or at least her. You really like to lie.
ParticipantAlso, for an event that has had 1 vendor many years, 2 vendors other years and 3 vendors only this year, it’s a bit weird that you “needed a 3rd vendor”. Also, your event turn out was about 1/4 of last years judging by photos I’ve seen. Did you chase everybody else away by asking other people to not bring their cameras too?
ParticipantThe AMAZING work of “CrazyJow”:
Seems like in the last year, he got worse?! How is that possible.
And hey, I was there for awhile, and I heard the other guy who set his stuff up ask the guy with the generator and one other guy for permission. And they both said he could do it. And they’re part of the group that hangs out with you so that means he got permission. In fact, he even ASKED the guy working the generator if he could speak to somebody in charge, and was given somebody by that guy.
The racist comment didn’t come from anything he just said, it came from him e-mailing my friend and calling his girlfriend a “half-breed”. As a COMPLETELY WHITE-PASSING biracial person, he has no idea what racism is like but he likes to use such words so he can seem cool. How unprofessional.
As for my friend stuttering – I didn’t notice that, but maybe he did. I have no idea. There was a band playing very loudly and maybe he didn’t hear you. But he did come up and talk to you right after and ask you a question. I know that for a fact, so he wasn’t avoiding you. But I guarantee you that you didn’t ask him anything about his girlfriend and whether or not she talked to him.
And you still haven’t really responded to the fact that it’s completely unprofessional to ask somebody’s girlfriend to ask their boyfriend not to take photos and to restrict photos at a public event to begin with is a bit silly. You have no legal right.
ParticipantOne of our friends says he’s going to take his large format rig to the event next year just to see what the guy does.
ParticipantOh and I completely forgot. So this other guy stops in because there is some sorta group there that talked to him about photos – he asks the actual event organizer if he can set his stuff up, and the guy says “yes”. So he pulls out three speedlights and stands, a reflector and a diffuser and his camera. All of a sudden the “official photographer” saw him and runs over – “EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! DO YOU NEED HELP HERE? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”
So basically anybody with better gear than he had was harassed and yelled at because his penis was too small or something.
ParticipantHe has now banned my friend from being a vendor at the event because her boyfriend was one of the photographers he was threatened by. Someone also made fun of him, and he’s now threatening “legal action” against people for “harassment”. Literally, the comment made by someone was that they knew actual professional photographers who could show up to the event to capture it. This guy is like the meat of the people that come here to defend themselves – threatening to sue because somebody said mean things about their photos on the internet.
So first off, he spent last years event trying to get in my friend’s way because he felt threatened by his better equipment. This guy was using a Rebel with a kit lens and a pop-up flash and my friend had a mid-consumer Nikon (5000 or 5100) with him that day, but a better lens and an SB-700. So that guy spent all of last year being mad at my friend, whose girlfriend was a vendor there. Oh yeah, and my friend? He got them their band last year AND this year (same band) and one of their vendors (which there were only two last year and three this year). So he’s a good guy, helped the event out and all, and then this guy is mad because he’s taking photos. The event goes by fine and my friend posts his photos to the page, just like every other person that was there – they are deleted. My friend posts them again, thinking FB had an error… Deleted. Third time… Deleted. And my friend was blocked from posting on the page.
Fast forward to this year and this “professional” writes a letter to my friend’s GIRLFRIEND – the girl who is vending at the event – and asks her to make sure my friend wasn’t “in the photographer’s way” because “he’s the official photographer of the event” and then rambles about how he didn’t get any good photos because my friend was there (instead of him not getting any because he sucks – just look at his page “The Digital Lightbox” – he posts out of focus and overexposed/underexposed stuff daily). My friend, trying to be professional about it both because he does make some money via photography, and because his girlfriend was selling stuff at the event, didn’t say a word about it to this guy or to anybody.
Fast forward to Friday – night before the event – and this “official photographer” sends a message through FB to my friend telling him to leave his camera at home because he’s not welcome there with his stuff. My friend, pretty much having being the official photographer for the band that was playing, does not leave his stuff at home. During the event, the guy comes up to him and says, “ARE YOU WITH THE BAND? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING HERE? I’M THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER.”
That’s just funny, right?! So my friend says to this guy, “Do you ask that of everybody with a DSLR? I see lots of people here with cameras.”
The guy says “Well you have really nice stuff, so I figure you must be with the band or something. I’m the official photographer for the event.”
My friend laughs and goes back to shooting the band. He posted about it on Facebook via his iPhone or whatever and everybody was getting a good laugh about it. Somebody decided to go post on the event’s official page and poke fun at him…
Now he’s banned the girl from vending, keeps messaging my friend’s friends, and is threatening “legal action” all because a girl said “I know some professional photographers if you need one for your event.”
Crazy people out there!
ParticipantLet’s talk about him again, because we kinda passed over him and now this guy is completely unprofessional and harassing my friend who is a photographer.
The Digital Lightbox and his “slanted horizons” and fake vignettes:
I know what you’re saying now, BUT THAT GUY CAME HERE AND SAID HE’S A PROFESSIONAL! Well, does a professional send e-mails to other photographers asking them not to bring cameras to public events? Does a professional scream when other people do bring cameras to public events? Does a professional wait until yet ANOTHER (not my friend) photographer sets up his gear (WHICH HE HAD PERMISSION FROM THE EVENT STAFF TO DO, even though he didn’t need it since this was in public and all) and run over and start whining to him? Does a professional shoot overly dark photos in overcast light and then whine that his photos suck because people were in his way?
ParticipantI kinda like the “after”, except the people are super red and it looks terrible. The car and the structure and everything are okay.
ParticipantWait, so people from this page reported foxtog’s Facebook page? What a bunch of moronic hypocrites. Sure his page was a bit meaner than this one, but it’s the same idea. Were some of you butthurt that you were featured or what? There’s no other reason to report it.
ParticipantWhoops, wrong thread.
Participant@ebi, I agree that they are two consenting adults, but ask yourself, “Is it professional?” The answer is resoundingly no.
Would a lawyer sleep with a client? UNPROFESSIONAL. ILLEGAL IN MANY PLACES.
Would a doctor sleep with a patient? UNPROFESSIONAL. ILLEGAL IN MOST PLACES.
Would a professor sleep with a student? UNPROFESSIONAL. NOT ILLEGAL IN MANY CASES, BUT IT WILL GET YOU FIRED.
You don’t sleep with your clients if you’re a professional (unless you’re a prostitute). That’s the easiest thing to judge. Now, you could sleep with A CLIENT if they are, perhaps, somebody you’re already sleeping with. However, moving in on a client, especially when one is at your mercy in a compromising position is completely unprofessional in all professions. So yes, we can judge him.
ParticipantIt doesn’t matter if you agree or readers agree. A judge would not agree, and this would be a civil matter which would most likely simply go before a judge. A judge would not find enough evidence in common phrases and statements to say that it was plagiarism. Lifting a sentence here or there and writing pretty much everything else isn’t legally plagiarism. Writing a blog about people “stealing” and then accusing someone of doing said stealing in it when in the end it’s not legally provable does put you in a position to be counter-sued for defamation and/or libel. They smeared her name by accusing her of something that they really cannot prove in a court of law
If she agreed that it was plagiarism, then she’s foolish – though she was most likely doing it simply to get people to stop harassing her.
ParticipantFrom a legal standpoint, this is not plagiarism. There are some words and phrases in common, but they are common words and phrases – simple descriptions of what is being explained. If they had both, perhaps, used a word not commonly used in everyday English, there would be a better case. At this point, if anything, Jasmine has a case against that blog for defamation. The only thing damaging her case is that she keeps removing the blogs, which makes her look suspicious (though she might be because she is being harassed by fans of the blog).
ParticipantDomilyne – for things such as screenshots of internet fights, Tinypic works well. Don’t even have to sign up.
ParticipantI was at an indoor event earlier, which had very good lighting, and this faux was there. She kept telling people that she wished she didn’t need the flash, but it was indoors so she did. Now I’m nowhere near a photographer, and I don’t even own a DSLR, but having used enough of them before at similar events, I guarantee you that she could’ve not used a flash just fine. Oh, and she had it pointed right at the kids in the event from 5-8 feet away. And no diffuser thing on it either, so I know they’re all pale white as ghosts.
And then she was telling other parents there that she can’t wait to start her wedding photographer business, and she is building a home studio. That’s a faux if I ever heard of one.
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