I'm starting to listen to all old music again, because everything new out there is just total crap.
In other news, the photo shoot I did yesterday turned out to be a total pain in the ass. The two models who claimed to be from professional agencies turned out to be a little less than what I was expecting. They looked ok, but definitely the caliber I was expecting. Generally of course I have no problem taking pictures of all kinds of people but I hate fakers. Not to say that they were both fakers but the girl was definitely shady and manipulative. The guy was pretty genuine I thought.
Anyway, another peeve of mine is when people try to get sneaky and try to trick you and squeeze all sorts of shit out of you. Well, the irony of course is that people who try to get sneaky with me always lose in the end because I end up giving them less than I normally would have if they were nice, genuine people.
So this girl made me shoot extra stuff and squeezed in a few more shots that was out of the contract. In one sense I think it's important that people get the most out of my shoots, but on the other hand, I also think that there are certain limits to what you can ask for. I do think that people should have a shoot with some sense that they got what they needed, but some people are just impossible to please. Maybe it's because they feel so insecure with what they look like, or whatever. Who knows.
So I decided that I would shoot what she wanted as much as possible, but now she will pay in the end because I will spend less time retouching. What goes around, comes around.
And on a side note, I think the one big misunderstanding that people have with fashion/commercial photography is that they think that photography is just about shooting. But the truth is that the shooting part is really just 50% of the job. There is still another 50% of work in retouching and color-adjustment work (post-production). Sometimes it's even more than 50%.
For example, if a shoot takes 2 hours, there will be a minimum of 2 hours in post-production necessary. Some professional images sometimes takes days to weeks to retouch.
And I almost always want to laugh when people say, just give me a CD of the photos, I know Photoshop. I can retouch the photos. Of course you never really know who can do professional retouching and who can't, but most of the time these people don't have a clue.
In other news, the photo shoot I did yesterday turned out to be a total pain in the ass. The two models who claimed to be from professional agencies turned out to be a little less than what I was expecting. They looked ok, but definitely the caliber I was expecting. Generally of course I have no problem taking pictures of all kinds of people but I hate fakers. Not to say that they were both fakers but the girl was definitely shady and manipulative. The guy was pretty genuine I thought.
Anyway, another peeve of mine is when people try to get sneaky and try to trick you and squeeze all sorts of shit out of you. Well, the irony of course is that people who try to get sneaky with me always lose in the end because I end up giving them less than I normally would have if they were nice, genuine people.
So this girl made me shoot extra stuff and squeezed in a few more shots that was out of the contract. In one sense I think it's important that people get the most out of my shoots, but on the other hand, I also think that there are certain limits to what you can ask for. I do think that people should have a shoot with some sense that they got what they needed, but some people are just impossible to please. Maybe it's because they feel so insecure with what they look like, or whatever. Who knows.
So I decided that I would shoot what she wanted as much as possible, but now she will pay in the end because I will spend less time retouching. What goes around, comes around.
And on a side note, I think the one big misunderstanding that people have with fashion/commercial photography is that they think that photography is just about shooting. But the truth is that the shooting part is really just 50% of the job. There is still another 50% of work in retouching and color-adjustment work (post-production). Sometimes it's even more than 50%.
For example, if a shoot takes 2 hours, there will be a minimum of 2 hours in post-production necessary. Some professional images sometimes takes days to weeks to retouch.
And I almost always want to laugh when people say, just give me a CD of the photos, I know Photoshop. I can retouch the photos. Of course you never really know who can do professional retouching and who can't, but most of the time these people don't have a clue.