before you were a photographer...

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Before I got into photography, I'd had more than my fair share of photoshoots, family portraits, makeovers, normal shoots and did some modelling when I was little.

The other day I went to visit my Mam and Dad, who inevitably have several of these images up on their walls and so forth.

I was wondering, do other photographers, amateur or pro, end up looking at photos now that they purchased years ago and thinking "this is wrong, that's wrong, that should be like..." etc? I found myself doing that yesterday and felt almost guilty! lol
 
Oh yes! All the time.

Even worse is when a friend shows me a photo & all I want to do is critise the photography rather than comment on how cute her kid is.
 
I get that on facebook...mostly with a family member who thinks that her photos are fantastic from the P&S ...despite being OOF and overexposed. Makes me cringe! Almost as much as it makes me cringe when other family members pass my pics off as their own....
 
MagicMynx said:
I get that on facebook...mostly with a family member who thinks that her photos are fantastic from the P&S ...despite being OOF and overexposed. Makes me cringe! Almost as much as it makes me cringe when other family members pass my pics off as their own....
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family members passing pics off as their own hmmmmmm daughter in law springs to mind with a pic I took of her dog on facebook lol did,nt even credit me with the shot :suspect:
 
I look back at some, but I dont think about what is wrong with the shot, more like I wish I had a better camera / dslr at the time! A bit like wishing a film was available in DVD/Blu-ray rather than VHS!
Also, with all the negatives I have, I wouldn't want to have to dig out my scsi negative film scanner to create a digital from! Ah the beauty of digital!
 
MagicMynx said:
I was wondering, do other photographers, amateur or pro, end up looking at photos now that they purchased years ago and thinking "this is wrong, that's wrong, that should be like..." etc? I found myself doing that yesterday and felt almost guilty! lol
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We've got a large canvas print on our lounge wall of our daughter when she was about a year old, taken in a studio that used to be in the centre of town. Every time I look at it, I'm reminded of how fantastically punchy the photographer got the lighting. It's one that I wish that I had taken and, indeed, one that I wish that I could light like that.
 
dinorock said:
family members passing pics off as their own hmmmmmm daughter in law springs to mind with a pic I took of her dog on facebook lol did,nt even credit me with the shot :suspect:
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You automatically own the copyright the second you take the photo, even though it is her dog, you don't have to do anything to copyright it, it is implied. I think at the very least you could take her to the small claims court.
 
I seem to nitpick when non-togs gush about how great certain pictures are but I rarely say them out loud. The only professional shoots my family have is for my brothers and then my communion day, to this day they I can say they are just beautiful pictures and the prints are still as new. The tog that taken them is still going but has had to give up his offices due to the emergence of new photographers in our area :(

The worst ones I have to say are my parents cruise ship photographs. I know its wrong but most of them are quite bad and quite underexposed :(
 
Just yesterday I was stood waiting for Mum whilst she paid for something in Debenhams and one of the photographs dotted around caught my eye due to the large hotspot on the models forehead.
 
the older stuff may not have the technical shape of todays
or if it does
you can do it yourself now
 
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