Hurt Feelings (Page 6): I too live by those rules, but I kind of see their point. Most pros use really cool looking cameras so what are they to assume. Its almost like saying a race...

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

jimberton wrote:

no sense giving smart ass replies....that person just may hire you over and over or refer you...

i live by the old rule....

you do something good...they might tell someone
you do something bad...they will tell everybody

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i really do believe that most non-photography people really believe its the camera that takes the good photos.

and you cannot fix stupid.

I too live by those rules, but I kind of see their point. Most pros use really cool looking cameras so what are they to assume. Its almost like saying a race car driver drives fast because of his car...

Phocus Loc: Lakeland, Fl

I just tell them they were all taken with my IPhone. That really amazes them.

jimberton Loc: Michigan's Upper Peninsula

St3v3M wrote:

quote=jimberton no sense giving smart ass replies... (show quote)

i agree.

years ago when i didn't take crap from no one........i found out what being alone is like.

guess being in photography biz or any other kind of biz.....requires a leather tuff tongue...because we keep having to bite it.

i hear that camera comment almost everytime i go out for a shoot. put on the 70-200mm 2.8 with lens hood...and even my clients that have hired me comment on how good the photos will probably come out because of that expensive looking equipment.
sometimes i'd like to tell them just to get the heck out of my site....but you what makes it all ok.......the green cash. i charge them more one way or another if they made the good pictures because of a good camera, after all, i have to pay for that expensive camera.

it's a 2 way sword for sure.

i do agree that sometimes feelings get hurt.....but repair those feelings with more cash.

b.c.

Those who do not use a camera have no idea how much work goes into photogaphy. All they wand to know is how did it turn out.

B.C.

ALYN Loc: Lebanon, Indiana

Afew nonths ago, someone related a story about a photographer in exactly your situation. Sometime later (so the story goes) the photographer was invited to the young lady's house for dinner. During the meal, he asked her if she had a new stove--everything tasted just right. You could have heard a pin drop.
Its the photographer, not the camera that makes the difference.
ALYN

4ellen4 Loc: GTA--Ontario

I would have told her that the camera can not doing anything with out you operating it.
and people like this never understand how much time goes into learning how to take good photos.

one thingI learned when I was doing this professionally was to develope a hard skin

skidooman Loc: Minnesota

jimberton wrote:

no sense giving smart ass replies....that person just may hire you over and over or refer you...

i live by the old rule....

you do something good...they might tell someone
you do something bad...they will tell everybody

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i really do believe that most non-photography people really believe its the camera that takes the good photos.

and you cannot fix stupid.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

too funny...i like this: your mouth makes really nice compliments...hahahah
but truth is when I get the line...i just let them know
YUP, with the little help I give it. Cuz I do love my
little P&S OLY and neither of us could work independent of the other.

St3v3M wrote:

quote=Bangee5 quote=St3v3M quote=Turt1e I've be... (show quote)

gymschwinn Loc: Greenwood Village, CO.

Turt1e wrote:

I've been reading everything this forum has to off... (show quote)

A TOOL IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE PERSON USING IT.

Wahawk Loc: NE IA

jimberton wrote:

no sense giving smart ass replies....that person just may hire you over and over or refer you...

i live by the old rule....

you do something good...they might tell someone
you do something bad...they will tell everybody

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i really do believe that most non-photography people really believe its the camera that takes the good photos.

and you cannot fix stupid.

It isn't only the "NON" photo people that think that way!! On a couple of my first posts in various threads, someone with a "fancy" DSLR complimented me on some scenic views and wanted to know what camera and lens I used. When I told them that the pics were from a Fuji Pocket Size P&S they just shut up and never asked again!! LOL!!

Freeaviator Loc: Buffalo,NY

Turt1e wrote:

I've been reading everything this forum has to off... (show quote)

ask her when she gets a great meal at a friends house or restaurant if she says it must be a fantastic stove!

CocoaRoger Loc: Cocoa Florida

As someone already stated, you can have $1000 worth of nice copper pots and pans and silverware and china but that doesn't make a good cook. On the flip side as one pro photographer said ''you can give me Michaelangelo's chisel but I'll never create a David''. Good equipment helps but it's the person composing the photograph that understands composition, light, color, shadows, forefront and background etc... Of course we all here know that but we also hear this all of the time. So in a polite way I try to explain it this way.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

I seem to take better pictures with a good camera than I can with a bad camera.

BigGWells Loc: Olympia, WA

With the camera's of today, I can almost understand where the comment came from. We all know that we can pick up a Nikon or Canon, set it on auto and get some nice pictures. To get the nicer more "bestest" ones, takes hard work, a lot of time and determination. For ever 500 shots I take, I am happy if I get 10 that to me are good. In this lady's case I would just choke it up to a case of mind over matter....you don't mind she don't matter..

Trish

When someone said to me "You never take a bad photograph", I laughed and said, "I never show anyone the bad ones". Knowing how worn out my delete button is!!!