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We need to up our game.
I just got done reading 3 pages of posts on another forum for the photography business. The basic premise was that she shot a family portrait and after it was done, the mom wasn’t happy with the shots. She also stated that she didn’t think there was good enough communication or any pre-planning.
The photographer posted that she was just sick to her stomach.
I read through 3 pages of posts in which fellow photographers stated over and over basically…screw her!
Now I looked through her images and the first thought I had was that the images were just really not good. It was funny to me that not one person commented that maybe, just maybe she should take a look in the mirror and put a little thought into maybe she might be at fault.
I spent some time pondering this today, wondering why not one person said “hey, your photography sucked!” I came to the conclusion that most people never even noticed.
We are surrounded by bad photography now and the mundane is now considered amazing. I see it in the commercial industry too.
She had images shot with short lenses at too big of an aperture with bad composition and tree branches growing out of peoples heads, and yet not on person called her on it.
So here is what I want all of you to do. Every time you are shooting ask yourself this simple question, “is this the best that I can do?’ Then ask yourself ” can I do anything to make this better?”
We need to raise our game and stop settling for “good enough” and don’t settle until you you are at “that is f%$&ing amazing!”
If I can get one of you out there to raise your game, it’s a win for me!
Kevin
Awesome Kevin. I’m going to share this with a group of photogs here in our area as we have to deal with the same shit you laid out in this post.
dh
You hit this one dead on sir. I see it all over Facebook too, faux-tographers posting images all over the place and they never get any better. I’m too nice to call them on it though in front of all their followers.
Kevin – I read the same post and had the same thoughts but didn’t feel in a position to post such comments on that board. Despite what any policy might be, that group does not seem tolerant of descent, especially from someone who is not in the running for King or Queen.
The photos in question are solidly sub-medeocre, however, they are in line with what was on the photographer’s FB page: not a bait and switch, just consistently: eh
Photo critiques in college were always pretty tough, I think as peers maybe we need more of that and less of the coddling. One would hope that the market would wither these so so photographers out of business, but there’s always a cRockStar to keep motivating them.