I missed providing you with some photographic goodness on Saturday. The weather’s been horrible and I’ve been super busy with the stuff that pays the bills. It’s also been a lot longer since I wrote anything for Word Filled Wednesday.
Something ticked me off today, and I’m sure it has in the past, and I’m almost certain that I’ve written about it. But hey, people like to read peoples rant’s and correct peoples spllings, don’t they?
I just opened my Fisher Price my first DSLR; I’m a professional photographer.
I was browsing through my Facebook feed and there’s things that pop up that catch my attention and they sometimes frustrate me. Somebody started working as a Photographer. Excellent, my interest is piqued. I can’t help but look at the photos and am often disappointed. Any of my close friends will tell you that I am my own worst critic when reviewing my photos, and do not claim to be a professional photographer. I enjoy photography as a hobby, and at best would call myself an amateur photographer. But some of the people that put photos out there, that are claiming to be professional are just plain poor. And those that charge for the privilege of their time. How? Blame Facebook I hear you say? To be honest their photo compression methods leave a lot to be desired, but you can tell if you look beyond the JPEG artifacting, that some photos are jut plain terrible.
Don’t get me wrong Social media is about sharing, and I make it openly clear that I share my photos on my Facebook Page, Photos by Dan. (That’s a link, click it and like it.) I’m also not against people sharing something they have a passion for others that may be interested to see. But I’m not changing my job description just yet, and I don’t constantly flood my social feeds with my half baked photos in hope to win some popularity contest.
Im a model; look at this selfie I just took on the front facing camera of my smartphone.
There are other examples too. Somebody listed their job as a freelance model. It’s a job that exists, I accept that. It’s a hard game to get into I would imagine. But when you spam my feed with links to your modelling page, which I invariably check out and can see little more than some poor quality selfies with some Instagram (look another link, follow follow!) filters applied, or photos that your mate took of you in the bathroom on a night out with a little bit of cleavage on show. It just frustrates me. Not a single photograph that would make me want to hire you as a model.
If you are promoting yourself as a business, please make it worth it!
Let me know what you think. Do you feel the same or am I way off the mark?
But in other, more positive news, my tomatoes have started ripening so I’m really looking forward to tasting them and WordPress has had a bit of a layout change which I quite like from first viewing.
Dan Woosnam 