Not sure if this has been posted here before or not but.....

[SusanH1970]

LOL!

We Get What We Pay For

[Jim Bryant]

Gawwwwwdddddddddddddd, too funny! But the sad part about it is that it sounds like so many out there with only two months or so shooting with a dSLR!

[private]

HAHHAHAHA - I TOLD my hubby I gotta get the 5D MKII...LOLOLOLOL - And I will be calibrated tomorrow. Wonder how I could put that on my website w/o seeming ya know...mean...? Help me with my wording


-a business license
- multiple cameras
-thousands of dollars in lenses and flashes
-hard drives to back up the images
-insurance
-experience
-people skills
-color calibrated monitors
-professional print labs
-professional albums

[BEGM83]

Oh but but but.....

damnit you mean just owning the fancy pants camera isn't enough?!

Dagnammit

[Sime]

Ugh... and I thought I had it made!!...

bugger

[kirbinster]

Too too funny.!!!

[CanonRebelz]

Like jim said, the sad thing is people have little to no experience and are trying to do weddings!
But, I think this is hilarious.. at least their honest.. but they shouldn't be trying to get wedding jobs when they don't have the equipt/knowhow.

[cphoniball]

Brilliant!

I'm putting together a web site of all the flower pictures and sunsets I've taken so you can see how good I am. I even have a few pics of my pet dog which turned out really great!

That's my favorite lol.

[Dennismc]

All very true points, BUT doesn't anyone want to mention the catch-22?

How is one supposed to know if they are ready and or able to do it? With out trying? Not everyone can use friends or websites to judge their work.

Hell I have seen some "pro's" do some really bad work.

I am an ordained minister that does weddings. I gave away my first 20 of them for free! Explained I was new to doing them and worked with the couples to make it a memorable experience. Learned a lot and most went off without a hitch.

Now the same can be said for photography can it not? I am not saying that it is true for all, thankfully I am smart enough to know that I am no where near good enough to charge for any type of work. Not in a long shot, and there are those who are not smart enough and they I think are the ones making it hard on the rest of the group to get ahead.

Or is it just a elite members club that doesn't want to share the cool aid, and have the pool of available clients diluted?

I opened a retail computer store in a town near my house, first year took a 30k loss ON PURPOSE, to prove a point. There was another guy in town, arrogant as all get out, over charged and took forever. Well I did everything at COST, ZERO labor fee, bring it in, I'd fix it and hand it back. within a year he had lost so much business he came in and asked why I was doing it? I told him. turned out he really didn't realize a lot of it and actually embraced the changes he needed to make.

I sold the shop a year later and to this day there are 2 shops still in that town. Very happy.

Yes I was a jerk, but I do not like arrogance at all. Some people need to come down a notch. others need to be brought up a couple.

So far from my reading on forums, it seems the photographers on the net like to think of themselves as entitled to something, well some deserve that and some don't, but where is the line?

JMO take it as you will

[Jim Bryant]

Where is that line?........when you have the equipment, experience and know what what the hell ya doing, photographic and business wise