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Gee you guys, I am done through the New Year, what’s up slackers! 🙂

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What Elsinore you don’t want a bunch of 8th & 9th graders oogling your rack?

Trust me, the line between most Farkers and being emotionally 8th graders is measured in nanometers.

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Its just nice, though, how her bewbs end up right over my head. No way I can compete with that. Though who wouldn’t go to sleep mesmerized by a pair of those?

I….no…you know what, I am just going to sit here quietly and keep myself out of trouble. 8)

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I’ma just gonna say it: Elsinore is cheating! You can’t just be throwing cleavage around all nimbly pimbly like that! Why…why…it’s just not right! Won’t someone please think of the children! 😛

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Annnnnnd done!

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Great video–but he skeered me. I shoot with a Canon xTi! I would never presume to do a wedding without the explicit understanding that I’ve never done one before. And I certainly would charge a deeply discounted (say, $250) rate because I know there are shots I wouldn’t get.

I’m looking forward to working with my model friend Jodi over the holiday furlough; I’m sure she’ll be able to give me tips on how to capture her properly, portraiture being my least experienced area. And dammit–I gotta find me that wallet I lost in my house (the one with $700 from the casino), so I can get me an x3i, which would be a decent step up, at least. (Yeah, I’d love a full-frame seriously professional camera, and some better lenses…but I’m not there yet, financially–maybe if I win the Az. millionaire’s raffle, lolz.)

Rav the XTi is a good camera, there is nothing wrong in shooting a wedding with an XTi. Shooting a wedding on 18-55 Kit Lens? Welllll not so much. I’ve seen your stuff, you know how to work your gear for the best results. These two bozos didn’t even take the camera out of Auto. (I don’t KNOW that but, I would place money on it.)

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In my case I see I have some huge holes in my skill set and need to concentrate on them because those holes are the meat and bread of the business. Once I have spent six months to year concentrating on those elements I would feel more comfortable “selling” myself.

I am searching right now for a photog in the bidness that I can tag along with as an assistant on a semi-formal basis. It’s the one way I know I can learn the business side of the business.

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I read through the comments on fstoppers after I posted this and they seemed to break down on three lines: Laughter at these inept fauxtographers, “you get what you pay for” and “A good photographer can still make good photographs on cheap equipment”.

All of these are true.

These two fauxtographers deserved the mocking they received. They clearly had no idea how to use the equipment they did have. When asked about fstops the blank look on their faces was priceless. Every time they opened their mouth they showed how little they knew about what they were doing.

You do get what you pay for, however these folks dropped a thousand bucks on a photographer. While a professional wedding photographer averages 3 to 7 thousand in a larger city (here in NYC a pro wedding photographer can easily run 10k plus!) if you are in a small town a thousand bucks should buy you some small modicum of professionalism. If they dropped a couple of hundred on these two ladies, I might roll my eyes and say you get what you pay for. Yes, they should’ve checked portfolios, asked for references and done their research but paying a thousand bucks for a wedding photographer should get you a certain level of professionalism.

Finally, on whether Judge Joe was using the expensive camera/good photo fallacy. Yeah, he was. He kept asking where is your 1 series, where is your 5D, where is your 7D? Still, you hire someone with the expectation they have the proper equipment to get the job done. If you don’t have the equipment to shoot in low light, don’t hire yourself out!

In the past few weeks I’ve committed two photographic sins just like these two fauxtographers. I shot a fundraiser for a friend and did not have replacement batteries for my flash. I was forced to shoot in a dark room at hideous high ISO with all the noise and crappy shots that implies. This weekend I was asked to shoot portraits and I didn’t scout the location, the space they wanted to shoot in was cramped, they wanted full portraits of one seated one standing and I am trying to shoot in cramped space with a 24-70 on a cropped sensor, AND they wanted the room light to be highlighted in the shot. On top of that, I can’t pose people for shiat, I shoot candid! I was out of my depths and unprepared for BOTH of these instances. BUT, I wasn’t charging. These folks got what they paid for, and they didn’t pay jack. They were happy with the results, I was not. It taught me an important lesson, I am not ready to be a professional photographer!

I’ve good gear, so I could pass the Judge Joe Brown test, but gear does not make the photographer. I’ve got a lot to learn about posing, light mixing and generally being prepared for the unexpected. I was happy to learn it before I started asking people to write checks, I don’t want Judge Joe ripping me a new one!

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However, that’s farktography. I would have saved it for Season’s Greetings, where it would have surely fared really well (I’d want it as my seasonal card at least). The very fact that you didn’t save it has me worried sick about what you’ve planned that must be better. 😥

I dun’t haf no ting fer dat one yet.

Heh, I’ve been sitting on my lead photo for a year waiting for Season’s Greetings…I’m not saying it’s going to win, what I am saying is it is the best. christmas.photo.evar! 😯

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You wanna know how I know I am not procrastinator? Because it is driving me NUTS not have this theme all shot, selected and ready to go! I don’t know what I want to shoot, what I can shoot, all I know is that there is something that needs to be done and I can’t do it!

THIS!
A thousand times THIS!!!

(Although, I’m not usually THIS far ahead, I usually have an idea what I’m using, and I’m almost always done before Monday Night Football is over)

Thank you, I was worried I was alone….and not a little strange in feeling this way! 🙄

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You wanna know how I know I am not procrastinator? Because it is driving me NUTS not have this theme all shot, selected and ready to go! I don’t know what I want to shoot, what I can shoot, all I know is that there is something that needs to be done and I can’t do it!

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What I like is the sheer number of triggers this can replace for this price…if it works…it can’t be beat.

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Yugoby: love the Foto Blitz! It just feels as though it were taken 60+ years ago and U-Man the color and texture on the Jobst Bethardt is almost oil painting in it’s richness!

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The Yongnuo line of flashes and radio triggers are both cheap and useful. (I use a pair of YN560’s and the Yongnuo wireless triggers). I think my only complaint is how fast they use batteries (in the triggers particularly) but for the price you can’t beat them.

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ennuipoet I will point out that what you see in your stream is your choice…you don’t have to recircle every person that circles you. I have about 1600 followers but I’m only following about 300 people and from the outcry of the masses on G+ I’m guessing (and hoping) they will soon implement a filter for your default stream.

But that said, I know what you mean. There’s been some people I’ve uncircled after awhile because they just spammed and spammed and spammed.
And an internet friend of mine asked me to start posting my photos from a page rather than as myself because they were clogging his stream. It’s not perfect but it’s in progress.

The whole thing, Facebook and G+ has become dangerously like work, posting, filtering and circling. I see why people are hired as “social media gurus” because it can be a full time job doing it for a company. That’s why I stick with posting to my photo blog and then linking the posts.

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