My step-sister's promoting a Fauxtographer :(

[jake337]

Dam, starting to feel like i'm a fauxtographer now.

Nothing wrong with being on the lower end of the market. Everyone needs to be able to afford to have their wedding photos taken.

Low end of the market photographer charges $250 for a wedding,

A fauxtographer charges $1,500-$3,500 for same quality as low end photographer.

I won't do weddings or seniors...I know better

You could. I see nothing wrong with having a business. As long as you have all the business end in order legally. Some people have no money and need/want service.


But it's when they charge equally to a higher end professional photographer.....

 

[BlueMeanieTSi]

I don't have lighting equipment and after seeing everyone get torn apart for "natural lighting" It's not on my list haha.

 

[jake337]

Well, I can't wait until I have a website up. Right now I just have a Facebook so I am totally a fauxtographer.

I bet your charge fairly for your services.

 

[jake337]

Good, let her do the $100 weddings. You don't want to do those anyway.

Exactly! Market towards customers who want quality.

 

[jamesbjenkins]

Dam, starting to feel like i'm a fauxtographer now.

Nothing wrong with being on the lower end of the market. Everyone needs to be able to afford to have their wedding photos taken.

Low end of the market photographer charges $250 for a wedding,

A fauxtographer charges $1,500-$3,500 for same quality as low end photographer.

^^^

The main difference being that a low-end wedding photographer knows exactly what they are, and they charge accordingly. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Fauxtographers think their hot **** and go around talking incessantly about the new lens they bought that makes them better than you. OH, and the BEST INDICATION of a fauxtographer is that they constantly try to position themselves as "better" than other photogs instead of just artistically different. Full-time pissing contest.

EWWWW.

 

[IByte]

Sad,sad tale of woe bro...

I'd definitely cross your step-sister off of your Christmas card list.

I would take a picture of the fattest of your a$$, give it to her as a Xmas card and let say, "Thanks for the memories" and smile to your hearts content.

 

[jamesbjenkins]

Well, I can't wait until I have a website up. Right now I just have a Facebook so I am totally a fauxtographer.

The day you go live, you'll get a bunch of click-throughs courtesy of me and my fan base. I'll be happy to show some love.

 

[IByte]

Hey Tyler go with with Linkedin much preferable than the FB.

 

[o hey tyler]

Well, I can't wait until I have a website up. Right now I just have a Facebook so I am totally a fauxtographer.

The day you go live, you'll get a bunch of click-throughs courtesy of me and my fan base. I'll be happy to show some love.

Thank you kindly! I'm hoping to have it up sometime within the next month if all goes according to plan.

Hey Tyler go with with Linkedin much preferable than the FB.

I have a linkedin, I just never use it. Perhaps I should.

 

[Danmunro_nz]

I'm not a photographer. I enjoy taking photos, I realize that I have no training and need a lot of work. I would never call myself a "photographer" and would be embarrassed by making a FB page claiming to be one and post photos like that. I ran into this "fauxtographer" the other day through a friend of my nieces. Beyond the Frame Photography - Photos | Facebook

Do people pay these "photographers" because they feel sorry for them or because don't see how bad they are?

Don't even get me started! lol!

Gosh they're awful. All I see is a series of underexposed poorly thought out snapshots.

 

[Designer]

Does anyone else think hat FB photogs conspire with each other, because it seems like they all use the exact same universally unprofessional effects on their "pro" photos. IE: extreme soft focus/skin smoothing, extreme vignette, unnecessary and tacky selective color.

No, they don't conspire with each other, but they do "learn" from each other.

The really sad part is; that is what a majority of the buying public is looking for.

 

[JackandSally]

I love the photo tags at the bottom of this page. Bwhahaha.