JD750 wrote:
I saw an interesting blog post, I can't remember for the life of me where I saw it, maybe it was Photofocus or FStoppers, or one like that.
The gist of it was
"It is amazing that Americans think they need to do both the shooting and the post-processing of their own images".
The author was talking about all levels of photographer, not just pros. And she made a good point, that it is easy to ship images off to other countries where people offer this service and their time is much cheaper than ours. And they are good at it. And she said that this is not uncommon in other countries.
Question to UHHers who do not live the US, is this true?
She also made the point that depending on the value of the particular image, one might send it to a more skilled and more expensive person vs a less expensive person one would use for everyday images.
It struck a cord with me because I do not like to spend time post processing. I would much rather be out shooting than sitting in a dark room finding around on a computer. I will usually toss an image rather than fiddle with it for more than a few minutes, in post. But I am a hobbyist, and I shoot for my own reasons, my art, and thus I have that option.
But it does bring up a good point. Why am I bothering with this post-processing stuff? Taking pictures, is what I like, not computer processing. Maybe I could find someone to do the post work, for a reasonable fee. I'm speaking for myself but I'm sure I am not the only one who has had these feelings.
I can envision the add: "looking for hot girl/model who loves being photographed and also loves post processing, for businesss partnership and ??, send picture". Ok that's a joke OK. But you get the idea.
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I have toyed with the idea but I have no idea of a reasonable price. I shoot stock and there is NO slop money for processing outside. Any ideas of what's "reasonable" and if you answer give me the gamut from cheapest to most dollars... as well as expected time to wait.