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Subject How amateurs / wannabes are destroying the industry
Posted by riddell [CLICK FOR PROFILE]
Date/Time 4:52:10 PM, Monday, January 07, 2008 (GMT)

Two months or so ago I had a call from a prospective customer.

He had a collection that needed photographing and he'd just used a 'free photographer' but he said the results were unusable. He said he'd learnt his lesson and wanted a professional.

But when I told him my rates, (which I consider very resoanble) he recoiled in horror, tried everything he could to get me to work for less than half my fee, and ultimately nothing came of it.

A week or so later he called again. Told me he had found a 'cheap photographer' to work for the low fees he wanted to pay, but again the results were unusuable.

I saw a few of these second set of photos and they were just amatuer and made his collection look cheap.
He was now prepared to pay my fees, but I was unavailable.

I spoke to him again today looking if he was still prepared to shoot.

He wasn't.

In the meantime he'd tried a 3rd cheap photographer, who absolutely convienced him he could do a good job. he said he had every bit of kit going, but ultimately produced flat, dull reults.

At this point the prospective customer is so fed up, he has enrolled himself on a professional photography course, brought all the gear, and is taking everything in house.
His trust in photographers is gone....

OK. He should have used a pro in the first place. But the real issue here is amatuers / wannabes who are so convienced of their abilities even though they are useless, but because they have a bit of patter they are managing to win people over.

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