DSPhotography
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I can kinda relate to you here, but in a different scenario. I've been doing photography (freelance/semi-pro) for quite some time now, and it's my dream to make a full on career out of it, which has been a bit of a struggle, but I'm determined. Anyway, recently, my girlfriends friend got married. After talking to me about pricing (which I have priced very fairly), she decided to get her friend to do it. Apparently she offered to do it for free, so whatever.
Soon after the wedding, I find out the bride, who has never had any interest in photography, has started "working" with her photographer friend, doing photo editing (I've seen this girls work and it's ridiculously over photoshopped) and such. Okay, whatever. Yeah I've been trying to get a job in photography for a while now and she just walks into one, but it's doing photoshop (which I don't do), so whatever. Well then the bride starts calling me constantly, asking for help. Not in a "hey you're a really good photographer and I'd like some advice/tips/pointers" way, but instead it's asking for programs, how to use them, where to get PS filters, etc. This annoys me (with good reason). But again, I shrug it off because she's just doing piddly photo editing.
THEN the ****ty part (or one of them). I had taken my girlfriend out for a shoot. She HAS had an interest in photography since before I met her.. just never got serious with it. Anyway, we go out to this small waterfall along the canal and I teach her how to shoot with an SLR. I explain what apertures are, shutter speeds, how they work together, etc. She dives right in and wants to do 'soft' water shots, and with a little coaching, she got some really amazing shots.
So she tells her friend (the recent bride) about the shoot. Shows her the pictures and says "Yeah you've got to use a slow shutter to do shots like these. My boyfriend taught me." The friend says "cool.. these are really good." and that's it.
The next day, I get a text from the friend: "How do I change the shutter on my camera?" me: "You have to use shutter mode or manual" her: "how do I do that?" me: "look in your instruction manual" her: "I can't find it" me: "look online". about 3 minutes later, my girlfriend gets a phone call from the ***** friend, asking for directions to the waterfall.
Now, I'm not the kind of person to go "Hey, you can't take a photo of that cuz I did" or anything.. but it's just really annoying when this girl has no real passion for actually learning anything to do with photography.. she just thinks it's neat. She apparently figured out how to do a slow shutter because she pretty much copied my girlfriends shots exactly. She admitted to not fully even understanding how slow shutter works!
To make things worse, she's now getting gigs doing photos for calendars and getting hired out to do shoots and what not.
It just thoroughly pisses me off that someone like her stumbles into stuff like that with very little effort while I struggle to get my name out there.
Sorry for somewhat hi-jacking your thread.. I just get really annoyed when I start talking about that chick lol
Soon after the wedding, I find out the bride, who has never had any interest in photography, has started "working" with her photographer friend, doing photo editing (I've seen this girls work and it's ridiculously over photoshopped) and such. Okay, whatever. Yeah I've been trying to get a job in photography for a while now and she just walks into one, but it's doing photoshop (which I don't do), so whatever. Well then the bride starts calling me constantly, asking for help. Not in a "hey you're a really good photographer and I'd like some advice/tips/pointers" way, but instead it's asking for programs, how to use them, where to get PS filters, etc. This annoys me (with good reason). But again, I shrug it off because she's just doing piddly photo editing.
THEN the ****ty part (or one of them). I had taken my girlfriend out for a shoot. She HAS had an interest in photography since before I met her.. just never got serious with it. Anyway, we go out to this small waterfall along the canal and I teach her how to shoot with an SLR. I explain what apertures are, shutter speeds, how they work together, etc. She dives right in and wants to do 'soft' water shots, and with a little coaching, she got some really amazing shots.
So she tells her friend (the recent bride) about the shoot. Shows her the pictures and says "Yeah you've got to use a slow shutter to do shots like these. My boyfriend taught me." The friend says "cool.. these are really good." and that's it.
The next day, I get a text from the friend: "How do I change the shutter on my camera?" me: "You have to use shutter mode or manual" her: "how do I do that?" me: "look in your instruction manual" her: "I can't find it" me: "look online". about 3 minutes later, my girlfriend gets a phone call from the ***** friend, asking for directions to the waterfall.
Now, I'm not the kind of person to go "Hey, you can't take a photo of that cuz I did" or anything.. but it's just really annoying when this girl has no real passion for actually learning anything to do with photography.. she just thinks it's neat. She apparently figured out how to do a slow shutter because she pretty much copied my girlfriends shots exactly. She admitted to not fully even understanding how slow shutter works!
To make things worse, she's now getting gigs doing photos for calendars and getting hired out to do shoots and what not.
It just thoroughly pisses me off that someone like her stumbles into stuff like that with very little effort while I struggle to get my name out there.
Sorry for somewhat hi-jacking your thread.. I just get really annoyed when I start talking about that chick lol