People loving over edited photos

[PhotoWrangler]

Both comments are fallacious.

idn't that like.... penis-like?

 

[EPPhoto]

Like other people said, if the client likes the colors bleeding off the page and selective color B&W's and weird/strong/overdone processing...then give it to em!

But honestly, if your portfolio doesn't boast these types of work...then people won't expect it!

If my customers ask for that (for lack of a better word) "style", then I give it to them...but I tone it down just a bit. Hell they're the ones paying the bills and customer happiness IS what brings referrals!!

 

[kundalini]

Both comments are fallacious.

idn't that like.... penis-like?

You are referring to phallus, Bitter is referring to the lack of truth.

 

[PhotoWrangler]

You are referring to phallus, Bitter is referring to the lack of truth.

a-HA!

I like my reference better though.... just for the record.

 

[kundalini]

I like my reference better though.... just for the record.

Not that there's anything wrong with that......

YouTube - ‪Not that there's anything wrong with that‬‏

 

[Vtec44]

That's because Facebook is for retards

My 30,000 friends will disagree with you!






j/k I don't have any friends, Facebook or real life.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." Henry Louis Mencken

So,yeah, your point has been duly noted before. In a similar vein, McDonald's has often been "America's Top Restaurant"; Gallo jug wine America's top-selling wine; individually wrapped slices of greasy, fake processed American "cheese" are eaten by the millions in this country as "cheese", and so on. Across many,many aspects of American life,mediocrity is the norm.

Pure Gold.

 

[480sparky67 67]

.........In a similar vein, McDonald's has often been "America's Top Restaurant"; ............

Currently, Yum! is the biggest.

 

[bentcountershaft]

.........In a similar vein, McDonald's has often been "America's Top Restaurant"; ............

Currently, Yum! is the biggest.

Yum! Brands isn't a single restaurant chain though. It's several different ones under the same management. I think Subway has the largest number of locations worldwide now.

 

[Diddy2theJJ]

Funny how we start talking about over processed photos and evolve to arguing what brands are best haha. I know it all started with an analogy and all but.......anywho, I see those kinds of photos on facebook too. Alot of people do 'like' them and comment on them, but lets face it, people on facebook are nuts about posting comments. Whether they are really in love with it, or just in love with the idea of posting a comment I don't really know...I tend to think that it's the latter.

I would tend to agree with giving the client what they want if they are hiring you for a job. In this sense, you can just think about it not so much as making 'art', but doing contract work. Obviously photography is art....but hopefully you see what i'm saying.

If you don't want to do those type of things, just don't include them in your portfolio, like someone mentioned above. Generally people will hire you for what they see and what they do like about your style. I haven't ever been hired and then asked to take photos with someone else's style.

I like to do some color editing as well, but very subtle edits that enhance the photo rather than detract from it. The over editing basically is a distraction from the photo itself...which maybe is a good thing for the people that are doing it....you see all the pretty colors instead of the crappy photograph LOL.

 

[Josh66]

Like other people said, if the client likes the colors bleeding off the page and selective color B&W's and weird/strong/overdone processing...then give it to em!

But honestly, if your portfolio doesn't boast these types of work...then people won't expect it!

If my customers ask for that (for lack of a better word) "style", then I give it to them...but I tone it down just a bit. Hell they're the ones paying the bills and customer happiness IS what brings referrals!!

I guess if that's the kind of customer you want, then go for it. The nice thing about photography is that you basically get to choose who your customers are...

If you want customers that don't know crap about what makes a good picture, then keep producing painful to look at crap edited on Picnik. I'm sure they'll be the only ones calling you - so, mission accomplished.

 

[The_Traveler]

Both comments are fallacious.

What does oral sex have to do with this?

 

[g-fi]

"Liking" a picture and paying to hire that photographer are two vastly different things. IME, the sort of people who love that really horrible "over-editing-to-make-up-for-lack-of-quality" style are often the ones who would never hire a quality photographer. They're drawn to cheap $30 session photographers for a reason. I shrug and move on, the clients who appreciate quality are the ones who are willing to pay for it, and those are the ones you want to impress. I used to worry about the oversaturation of amateur quality photographers in my photography-saturated small town until I realized that most of these cheap photographers are giving away their sessions and CDs in order to get any clients at all. I'm not interested in their market demographic, or in "educating" people. It's better to have one $800 client who likes what I do than 80 $10 clients who just want a free CD.

 

[skieur]

Editing images used to be the realm of pros. Now, anyone who can afford a low-end computer can get in on the action. Ergo, editing means you're a pro.

Editing images is still the realm of pros. Playing with the editing software, not knowing what you are doing, and producing crap is the realm of numerous amateurs.

skieur

 

[skieur]

Both comments are fallacious.

What does oral sex have to do with this?

:thumbup: Obviously, you are well-educated and well-read, to have an English vocabulary better than most here.

Great observation.

skieur