Everyone's a Professional now ...

[John Lawrence]

Isn't the aim of a flyer to get you to read it by attracting your attention?




John

 

[Sparrow]

Isn't the aim of a flyer to attract your attention?



John

I sometimes think they make TV commercials annoyingly bad to do exactly that

 

[Lauffray]

Mercifully no extraneous apostrophes on the sign. We must count the small blessings!

No Comic Sans used ? 😀

 

[IanBiggar]

All photographers now

All photographers now

Well, Tim - I think we need new editors!!
Ian

 

[Sparrow]

No Comic Sans used ? 😀

... yes, I suppose it could have been worse, I'd not thought of that 😀 ... or even the old different face for each letter trick?

 

[seakayaker1]

Old Age Pensioner ... I've no idea what tramlines are though

Tramlines haircut can be seen here: https://www.google.com/search?q=tramlines+haircut&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=niWuUdCnAorlrgGuzoHQDw&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1439&bih=680

Perhaps someone would like to sponsor a contest of Photographers who get a Tramline haircut and submit a photograph of themselves!

Grand prize could be a hair trimmer so the photographer can either fix the haircut or maintain their new tramlines.

 

[Sparrow]

Tramlines haircut can be seen here: https://www.google.com/search?q=tramlines+haircut&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=niWuUdCnAorlrgGuzoHQDw&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1439&bih=680

Perhaps someone would like to sponsor a contest of Photographers who get a Tramline haircut and submit a photograph of themselves!

Grand prize could be a hair trimmer so the photographer can either fix the haircut or maintain their new tramlines.

ah, that explains my ignorance 🙂

 

[Timmyjoe]

Well, Tim - I think we need new editors!!
Ian

Thank Ian. When I was younger, studying the works of Adams, Weston, Avedon, and many of the greats in photography, we had a distinction we used in evaluating images. There were "photographs" (like the artistic works of the masters, (not that mine are anywhere close to that)) and then there were "pictorial representations of what was taking place". It seems that editors today are perfectly happy to use the latter so they don't have to pay for the former.

Best,
-Tim

 

[funkydog]

And here is the same moment captured by an "iPhone photographer" that other editors said was "good enough" and they used:

It is discouraging.

Best,
-Tim

Perhaps picture editors intentionally want bland news photographs, not only for cost cutting but also to avoid upsetting advertisers. I'd imagine that only peddlers of haemorrhoid medication would be happy to see their ad placed on the same page with the other, more emotionally charged, photograph of the two ladies.

 

[Timmyjoe]

Perhaps picture editors intentionally want bland news photographs, not only for cost cutting but also to avoid upsetting advertisers. I'd imagine that only peddlers of haemorrhoid medication would be happy to see their ad placed on the same page with the other, more emotionally charged, photograph of the two ladies.

You cannot report the news without reporting on things that are upsetting. Photojournalism is telling stories through pictures. If you have a heartbreaking story, a photograph that is in service of that story, is going to be heartbreaking/upsetting.

The editors are doing this because they no longer value what good photography can bring to a story. So when they have to cut costs, which they all need to do, they throw the paid photographers out (see Chicago Sun-Times) and get by with the "iPhone Photographers" who cost them little to nothing, because the editors now see those "iPhone" photographs as "good enough".

Best,
-Tim

 

[raphaelaaron]

it's true. everyone is a professional now.

this reminded me of an episode from Judge Joe Brown and a "professional" wedding photographer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lz-07D5KoE

 

[Timmyjoe]

That was funny.

Best,
-Tim

 

[x-ray]

I want to be a consultant.

Consultants are people that got fired and can't get another job.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

Photojournalism is telling stories through pictures.

TLDR

s-a

 

[Vics]

Well, not every meal needs to be made by a trained chef, not every photo needs to be taken by a pro.

An acquaintance of mine who was a Black Star shooter once told me that the definition of a professional photographer was "a guy who owns a camera."

 

[kuzano]

Hmmm tough question.....

Hmmm tough question.....

You get what you pay for I guess...what's an "OAP cut"?

Just guessing here, but I'd say 6 pounds??????😱

 

[rbiemer]

Just guessing here, but I'd say 6 pounds??????😱

😀 (+ 10 characters)
Rob

 

[jsrockit]

I sometimes think they make TV commercials annoyingly bad to do exactly that

They most assuredly do...

 

[shadowfox]

Consultants are people that got fired and can't get another job.

Or people who quit their job because they can help more clients with what they know. 😎

Just like there are good barbers and bad ones. Your experience with either one will color your definition.

 

[oftheherd]

I had a cheap haircut once. The next day I had another one to correct the first one...

When I was a kid, my father used to take us to a barbershop across the state border into Kansas. The owner, 'Swede,' used to bragg he was so good he could cut waves in a man's hair. He also freely admitted some people called them nicks. 😛