Stuff People Say to Photographers

[Every Miles A Memory]

I've had every one of these said to me at some point :drool:

 

[thebrassnuckles]

My fiance's friend is a photographer.

For our baby shower she said she was giving us baby pictures as our gift.

So when she tells us that it's going to be $400 for the disk we ask "what part was the gift?"

"oh, my sitting fee"

Wait..... What part was the gift last time?"(for our first baby) cause we paid for a sitting fee an pictures. We tell her we can afford to spend 400 on pictures right now she gets bent out of shape. Like its our fault for not asking her to take our pictures and charge us 400 for a gift.

Them she tells my fiancé to put it on her credit card. Nice. Not happening.

I wish I could figure out a way to make money by giving a gift.

Oh, and she also uses pictures of my babies an fiancé on her websites without permission. We have never signed any releases.

But it's ok cause she is a "professional"

Dot get me wrong. I like photographers. Thier work isn't easy. But her work..... Sucks. She used to be great, until she went to brooks photography school. Now, all her pictures look photoshopped as ****.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

HAHAHA!! Tell me how you really feel about her work :ylsmoke:

 

[thebrassnuckles]

Well that was being nice. Ha ha.

She gets really pissed when she sees pictures we had taken by (her words) "amateurs" (not brooks educated photographers) which are far superior.

 

[Redline]

The one I didn't hear is: "That camera takes really good pictures"

 

[Finlay]

The one I didn't hear is: "That camera takes really good pictures"

My son is an aspiring photographer. He's got a decent Canon DSLR, but has now latched onto the idea that he needs to upgrade.

So, he's got his eye on this 5000 dollar Canikontax 9000 S.U.X with 14.8 gigamorans per nutzenflux and superannuated 137 bit megafemtobarn pixel bus.

Or something. He insists he must have it, because otherwise it is impossible to take good pictures; all other cameras up to this point suck. This camera is the ne plus ultra of cameras, and all the cool kids have it.

I say to him - "you know, the pictures aren't actually in the camera" and "a craftsman never blames his tools" and "the art of photography is everything else that happens before you click the shutter" and "if you learn how to take good pictures with a crappy camera, you'll take amazing ones with a better one".

I also say "in 18 months, they'll make an upgrade to this camera; it will be same but the LEDs will be blue and it will cost 6000 dollars. You'll want that, too."

But he's 17, and I need to shuffle off and die - having obviously outlived my usefulness and being so out of touch with the real world.

 

[cruisertoy]

Finlay,
I'm out of my league here since I neither pretend nor aspire to be a pro. I probably lean more towards more like the guy being made fun of as far as asking questions.

I've paid for plenty of photo's when it was important to do so. Otherwise I just take pictures to make myself and my family happy. I've got a nikon D90 with a few lenses, none of which cost more than a few hundred dollars. At some point in the last year or two someone posted a link to a professional photgrapher that took time away from her expensive equipment and used a D40 with a cheap 18-55 kit lens to produce a large gallery of pictures. I looked, but could not find the link. Anyway, your on the right track with your comments to your son. I know I have often gotten caught up with the latest and greatest stuff for my Land Cruiser, House, Climbing gear....... As I've gotten older I've gotten better at not updating as often or as quickly. Heck, i just got a smart phone last year, now my kids think they all need one.

 

[bigreen505]

I wish that was funny.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

My son is an aspiring photographer. He's got a decent Canon DSLR, but has now latched onto the idea that he needs to upgrade.

Let your son know that the camera body is the least of his worries and wants. he should be investing in good 'L' glass lenses.

Unless he's shooting sports and needs the high frame rate per second of the 1D MKIV or the 7D, then even that Basic Rebel attached to some nice glass will produce some outstanding images.

We have multiple bodies and all do different things. It's the lenses we argue over. Funny part it, we sell more images from our Canon 30D than we do with the brand new Canon 5D MKII. Probably because the 30D has a higher frame rate per second and we're using it more for sports, which is what sells.

Let him know that my wife broke her camera right before an event. She went to Wal-Mart, bought which ever Rebel they had at the camera center. Used that Rebel for the entire week long event while hers was back at Canon being fixed and returned the Rebel when the event was over. She sold multiple images from that event and had multiple images used for advertising and just took 2nd place in the state of Wyoming's photo contest with one of those images. Again, it's not the camera, it's the 8 inches behind it that matter.

Billy Etbauer who ended up winning the Saddle Bronc Portion of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo - Photo by Cindy Bonish​

 

[phxtoad]

Again, it's not the camera, it's the 8 inches behind it that matter.

Bummer. I'm screwed then.

 

[nwoods]

Again, it's not the camera, it's the 8 inches behind it that matter.

Now I get it. For years I've been wondering what she sees in you

 

[nwoods]

The one I didn't hear is: "That camera takes really good pictures"

It was in there. He was sitting on the couch/chair thing when he said it.

My favorite was when he was fondling the camera and says, with a question of perplexity in his tone, "M....?"

Finlay, loved you're post. My son is 14, and yeah, I'm already feeling it. But you are 100% right. Fortunately, there are a host of websites out there that discuss the amazing possibilities of cheap cameras. I like this one:
- http://fstoppers.com/iphone

and this one:
- http://ngadventure.typepad.com/blog...-adventure-video-from-the-pros-at-camp-4.html

cool site (just found it!):
- http://www.iphoneff.com/

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Now I get it. For years I've been wondering what she sees in you

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[loren85022]

My favorite this year was when shooting a ladies basketball team. I had a descent lighting set up and the group shot looked good. I got done and the coach told me a few girls were missing. He said he'd take their photos and asked me to "just photoshop them into the shot."

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

My mother and sister say that kind of stuff all the time.

"We took a family photo and you and Cindy werent around, can we send it to you and you just Photoshop yourselves in?" HAHA!!