[seth]

I don’t think Cieara is a fauxtographer, and not just because you’ve all finally hit on one I (kinda) know lol.  We all make mistakes and she’s got some but largely I think she does very nice work.

[seth]

The baby ironing photo is horrid!!!  What a bad bad bad idea!

[seth]

I’m not sure why I said three LOL.

[seth]

I couldn’t finish my post because I’m still laughing about your slant on HDR.  Didn’t you know you were wrong, of course it’s not three exposures merged into one!  EVERYONE knows that HDR is obtained by sliding the saturation slider all the way up!  Get with it, BEG!

[seth]

Oh, hilarious.

If those settings always over exposed (or under exposed) an image, guess what, they wouldn’t be on the camera at all!

This is where what equipment you have DOES come into play.  Higher end cameras will handle higher ISOs better than the cheap ones.  Now someone give me $10k stat.

Creative Differences… the fauxtographer’s Ace in the Hole.

[seth]

Growling at Alyssa.  If I see another one of these from the Southeast Missouri I might kill myself.  However, that would be letting the fauxtogs win, so I’m not sure.

[seth]

Wow I missed a lot!

Re: the sand thing.
I think that’s been going on a while.  I never heard of it specifically for a blended family before, just in the same concept as a unity candle.  We had a unity candle at our wedding, wish we would have had the sand.  Ended up throwing away the yucky candle about 8 years later, partially and badly burned and collecting dust.
I don’t really do a lot of weddings but I’ve had probably actually more with sand than the candles these days.  The one I have coming up next has sand.

A few thoughts…

Cain has NO idea what HDR is.

I do not understand why people post this crap.  I mean, surely you don’t think it looks good?  This is especially horrifying.  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=323968431063114&set=a.299335460193078.67705.175746772551948&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-ash3%2F529378_323968431063114_591753988_n.jpg&size=637%2C960

This makes me want to hurl.  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=336316616494962&set=a.299335460193078.67705.175746772551948&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-frc1%2F229603_336316616494962_2104283035_n.jpg&size=960%2C653

Someone should also find the original authors of the photos in the album where he says they’re not his, and report him.  I don’t know how to reverse image search myself.  Well for the ones he doesn’t credit.  This one https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=287982217995069&set=a.287982044661753.66191.175746772551948&type=3&theater – he clearly says who it is and that it’s All rights reserved.  IDIOT THAT MEANS YOU CAN’T USE IT.

I can’t find the one now that was in Colorado.  Yes, I was clicking on my phone but not posting all week.  Anyway, she said they were closing up shop, something about not having equipment.  I found it interesting (to say the least) that they said $3k of camera equipment was stolen from them – everything they had, so they couldn’t do business in the meantime.  They started asking for donations to replace it but I noticed there were two donation posts that were preceded by one that said everything the same except “it’s almost my birthday.”  I guess that didn’t work so they tried claiming it was stolen?  Fishy.

[seth]

ok, just…  and I don’t say this often… WTF man.

[seth]

What’s really crazy is it’s not hard to learn to do things properly.  I honestly don’t know what is wrong with people these days.  Not just in photography, but everywhere…  people just suck.  They all want the easy way out, the lame-assed way to go.

[seth]

geeze.  Well I guess the rest of us can only hope that in time quality will win out over cheap quantity everywhere.

[seth]

Eesh, each one worse than the one before!!  Well, I think SissieMoes kinda takes the cake.

[seth]

Shelby, Photoshop Elements is actually only $60.  http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65193986-Photoshop-Elements-11/dp/B0093FROMA/ref=sr_1_1_ha?ie=UTF8&qid=1367785921&sr=8-1&keywords=photoshop+elements+11

As for people being immature – that does not apply to anyone in this thread.  Maybe yes to some others on the photo’s posting, but not here, where you are now addressing people.  Also, none of us have the permission to take down your photo, nor did we post it.

Might I suggest you stop with all filters and extra editing to pictures.  Until you can get them right “au naturale” anything you do to them is just going to make them look like crap.

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iliketag – that’s pretty pathetic.  I mean, if you’re advertising your photography in a situation like that, people are going to want to SEE it.  I always find that the ones that brag the most about their equipment are either fauxtogs or photogs who are a*******.

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In other news, the other day I came across the FB page of the woman who did my sister’s wedding photos.  I was in the wedding so I couldn’t do it and I found this woman online and hired her.  She did a really good job on the photos and we were happy with them.  Two years later, she did the wedding of an acquaintance of mine and they were not happy.  They’d asked if I could maybe clean some of the images up but never got back to me about it later.  I think they were largely unhappy with the huge shadows on the wall behind them.  I’d been at the wedding and thought it was strange how she was shooting at that time, I couldn’t remember if she’d done my sister’s wedding the same way.  Anyway, now it’s over 3 years after that and I find that she’s been through a name change and I swear, things on her FB page and website have horrified me.  Is it possible to get worse after you’ve been in business for 5 years!?

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And, at Rizzo… ACK ANOTHER one from my hometown area.  Makes me want to cry!

[seth]

I’m just still laughing over

Hem!! excuse me, genius u don’t have to capitalize civil war because I’m not black ur not black and this isn’t 1861 anymore so hem yea just needed to get that out thank u

[seth]

Though, having read through that whole thread earlier today, it seemed to me that they were the ones that started with the Southern Redneck Pride stuff.  The one guy even used the nickname “Redneck.”  So… sounds like he brought that one on himself.

[seth]

Most definitely.  Been a long week lol

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