Customers ghosting me after my response to their inquiry
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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May get down voted to hell on this...
DX & FX.
Please just say APS-C & Full Frame in a non Nikon discussion. When I first heard this, I was like WTH? I get it if it's a Nikon only discussion, but please, know your audience.
I think black and white photos with 1 color edited to pop are tracky freshman year of art school intro to photoshop garbage.
When posting online for a critique, cropping for what looks good on social media, not what a proper photo should be cropped like.
Weddings
People who go on about 35mm “full frame” vs APSC 🙄
People expecting me to pay hundreds of dollars to shoot them if they’re the ones that come to me
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I don’t focus on other photographers because I don’t care enough to notice their craft, whether their lens hood is backwards, the way they hold their camera, etc. I’m secure enough in my craft to respect others and can appreciate that they share a common interest!
My pet peeve is when I’m out shooting (minding my business) and find a particular interesting composition, other people see my set up and then attempt to capture the same composition. To the point where they want me to move from where I’m standing or set up so that they to can get “the same” photo! F-off!!!
Other pet peeve is while I’m out shooting and people will see my equipment and ask me to stop what I’m doing to take a photo of them… I decline every time!
Mine is during the photo taking and this has happened any number of times....
I'll set up my tripod to take a shot of some obvious landmark/view - like last time was waiting for the setting sun to shine through the lightbox of the lighthouse at Peggy's Cove. I'll politely wait while any people right in front of me clear out - it's a public spot and they have every right to be there. Someone will come up and look at my setup, look at my gear, see what shot I'm waiting for, realize it's a good shot and then WALK RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME to take it themselves. Always with a cell phone. Always with a girlfriend. Always nine different poses.
"Dark and moody" / "Light and airy" / "Painterly"
Just admit you can't control exposure.
Full blown hdr from single exposure
I’m a lab technician at a photo lab that outputs a tonne of prints per day. We’re the only store in the area that uses a silver halide process rather than dye sublimation or inkjet so a lot of the older photographers come to us for prints because the difference in quality and colour fidelity is a game changer. All this to say, I see a lot of professional photos in a given day and I see trends happening in different communities. When I print couples’ wedding photos in particular I see a clear difference between young photographers and older photographers.
Older photographers that probably started on film do everything in their power to get a sharp, crisp image with natural looking colour, adding in their own unique colour profiles of course (I find their finished products more elegant and timeless overall).
Younger photographers my age are talented as hell, composition and posing of the couples are fantastic, I even quite like the different deep orange/muted green colour presets that they use - it captures the feeling of the event very well.
The one thing that ruins it all is that they all add an insane amount of grain to their photos in post-processing. To the point that it totally detracts from the photo and it’s all I can see. I understand that they’re going for a “vintage” look - but not only is there is a pretty stark difference between film grain and digital grain, but wedding photogs back in the day were hell bent on having as little grain as possible. I understand that it’s a trend just as the muted greens are a trend - but at least the muted green trend is somewhat original and belongs in this day and age. The fake film grain look just feels anachronistic and unoriginal to me.
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Everyone having an opinion on other’s work, like many users in this thread.
You want teal? Do teal. You like presets? Do presets. You want film? Do film.
Photography is art, it can be whatever you want.
People who claim gear doesn't matter while shooting with a $7000 camera/lens set up.
“Gear porn.”
People who canceled last minute
Too much focus on post processing. If it’s a bad composition or bad exposure I don’t care how many “filters” you slap on it.
On Reddit specifically: listing the lens specs in a post title rather then the exposure settings. Cool lens bro, but what was the shutter speed you used?
People looking at my portfolio of fully edited and retouched photos, deciding they want everything to be natural and without editing (cheaper too), me lowering the price since there’s no retouching (still sneakily retouched a little bit, cause I’m a perfectionist), end result - person not happy with their photos cause they don’t look like other glammed up photos in my profile.
And yeah I know, normally I would not deal with this kind of requests and just say it’s a fixed price for my work and vision. But I’ve recently moved to another country and basically have to get any work I can.