Comments on: Earning From The Top Photography Cliches http://blogs.photopreneur.com/earning-from-the-top-photography-cliches Marketing Your Photography Business Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: J http://blogs.photopreneur.com/earning-from-the-top-photography-cliches/comment-page-1#comment-2260 J Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:47:35 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=615#comment-2260 And it's completely beyond the ream of possibility that some Flickr account owners may leave their photos public so that they may be posted on blogs or to allow family and friends who don't have Flickr accounts to see them? Trolling Flickr accounts owned by amateurs for cliche/ unprofessional/ terrible/ whathaveyou photographs is like shooting fish in a barrel. But guess what? Most rank amateurs are merely taking pictures for their own pleasure, not for impressing others. Why don't you pick on professional photographers that make their living from cliche photographs? And it's completely beyond the ream of possibility that some Flickr account owners may leave their photos public so that they may be posted on blogs or to allow family and friends who don't have Flickr accounts to see them?

Trolling Flickr accounts owned by amateurs for cliche/ unprofessional/ terrible/ whathaveyou photographs is like shooting fish in a barrel. But guess what? Most rank amateurs are merely taking pictures for their own pleasure, not for impressing others. Why don't you pick on professional photographers that make their living from cliche photographs?

]]> By: Roger Whitehead http://blogs.photopreneur.com/earning-from-the-top-photography-cliches/comment-page-1#comment-1663 Roger Whitehead Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:54:15 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=615#comment-1663 > Shame on you and your self-glorifying little blog. And with those final six words, Alisa surrenders her claim on the moral high ground. What I don't understand is why this cat photo (I couldn't work out which one, BTW) is on public display if it was taken "with no expectation that anyone other than her mother would ever care about it". Put up an Aunt Sally and people will take shies at it. Want to keep you pictures for friends and/or family, then instruct Flickr accordingly. Roger > Shame on you and your self-glorifying little blog.

And with those final six words, Alisa surrenders her claim on the moral high ground.

What I don't understand is why this cat photo (I couldn't work out which one, BTW) is on public display if it was taken "with no expectation that anyone other than her mother would ever care about it".

Put up an Aunt Sally and people will take shies at it. Want to keep you pictures for friends and/or family, then instruct Flickr accordingly.

Roger

]]> By: Alisa http://blogs.photopreneur.com/earning-from-the-top-photography-cliches/comment-page-1#comment-1650 Alisa Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:30:35 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=615#comment-1650 Apropos all cats looking the same: If people were voluntarily sharing their photos of their cats in a public community where they expected members to be able to differentiate their cat from all the others, then yes, you would have a right to criticize their work. But to single out a photo that was taken at the request of someone's mother with no expectation that anyone other than her mother would ever care about it and use it as an example of all that is wrong in photography is just plain bitchy of you guys. Shame on you and your self-glorifying little blog. Apropos all cats looking the same: If people were voluntarily sharing their photos of their cats in a public community where they expected members to be able to differentiate their cat from all the others, then yes, you would have a right to criticize their work. But to single out a photo that was taken at the request of someone's mother with no expectation that anyone other than her mother would ever care about it and use it as an example of all that is wrong in photography is just plain bitchy of you guys. Shame on you and your self-glorifying little blog.

]]>