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Thanks Ebi, I wasn’t trying to be mean to her I was just saying that if I were her I would at least try to get better and practice on people for free before I started charging. She needs a bit of practice and to be honest I wouldn’t pay her to take my photos. Just because you do one photoshoot with a model doesn’t mean you should automatically start charging people. I know you gotta start somewhere too, and people can always improve. But practice on your family members or friends, and if they like it and you improve on the way then you can start to get the word out. It just bothers me when people say “I got an SLR I am now a photographer” and try to start a business even if they don’t know how to use their cameras. I have seen it on more cases than this. I’m just trying to be helpfully critical here and not too harsh.

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Yeah I guess I made the wrong choice by posting her here…she’s not as horrible as some I’ve seen that actually think they are good.

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To Worst Case Scenario, as for why I posted what camera I own, I guess I was probably just “trying to get attention” or something. Assume whatever you want, you can think that I’m a troll or whatever, I don’t really care. And you’re also assuming things by telling me that she is only 19 and therefore I must have a problem with her when you don’t even know me. This site is for fauxtogs right? That was the whole point of my post. I don’t have anything against the girl. I guess you guys answered my original question, she is not a fauxtog and she should keep charging people for her “so-so” shots, so thank you for answering. Good day to both of you.

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I guess you are right, but I would still not charge someone for my photos unless I was really serious about starting a business, and I actually knew what I was doing. If I was only so-so, I wouldn’t charge them. I’d just do them for free until I got better and my name got out. That’s just my opinion. She’s not bad, but her first photos when she first started were really kinda bad. If she improves then good for her. I just kind of think she’s going a bit overboard now. For example, I’ve done a couple weddings for family and friends, and while I consider myself decent, I didn’t ask for money or charge them. Plus they came to me, I didn’t advertise myself. One of them gave me a gift card.

So I guess to each his own.

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I’ve seen people on here make fun of fauxtogs for charging people for taking crappy photos. Shouldn’t she wait until she’s better before she starts charging people? That’s all I was trying to say.

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I only posted on here once about someone who I thought was a fauxtog and for some reason the mean replies were directed towards me because I’m “new” even though I’ve been here a while, I just never posted before. I didn’t even say anything mean about the person. I thought this forum was for the fauxtogs, not to bully others? But when I’ve  been reading comments on this forum, I have noticed a lot of harsh and mean critics who think they’re all smart asses. And so I agree with Thomas, I’m no longer going to post here.

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Well when I posted this, I didn’t expect to be the one to be attacked…but of course, that’s usually the case. I guess I shouldn’t have posted at all so never mind. As for being someone “new”, well I am not new. I’ve been following this page for quite a while. I just never posted before. But don’t worry, I won’t be posting here again.

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