Venting!!!! What i hate the most!!!

I can take cheap photogs...... it's on them to lose on the end.

I can take bad photogs...... It's on the client for picking them to save money.

i can take overpaid photogs.....it's on the client for paying for a name not the work.

But what i can not take are FAKE ASS LIARS people ( won't call them photogs ) who steal the hard work of other photogs and post them on there website to get work !!!!!

ok i vented !!!!!!!! Thankyou

Dude. We hired this bozo for our wedding. I got swindled. Did a decent job with his new Nikon (this was his first digital in 2006), after all.... he was great with film. The photos looked ok for my wife and I. We wernt too unhappy, we had to keep our cool because we still wanted our digitals (jpg's)
Wasnt shooting raw at the time and knew nothing about post processing. Anyway it was a decent price for what it was. I produced our actual album via digital in photoshop hardcover. Here is the kicker...the CD with all the photos on it came from freakin wallmart!!!! WTF???!!! Still wish I had paid a little more for someone else...

Should tineye.com be part of the photographer finding process?

When money is involed, There will always be cheaters.

Slightly off-topic, but I just did a search for a couple of images of mine that I know are happily indexed on google. TinyEye failed to find them. I think it is because the version of the image I uploaded had a black/white border around it. But it was sort of disappointing to see the limitations of this kind of technology at least at the stage it's at now.

I find Google Images works much better than Tineye. You just drag & drop your image into the search bar.

http://www.google.com …images/searchby​image.html


But yeah, to the topic at hand, I can't tell you how many beginner wedding photographers I've seen stealing other photographer's photos and posting them on their site since they don't have a portfolio yet. I can imagine the horror on their clients' faces when the clients are presented with photos that don't come close to the quality of what they were shown.

so the moral of the story is... steal pictures you can closely match

NG8JGFX wrote in post #14854274
Dude. We hired this bozo for our wedding. I got swindled. Did a decent job with his new Nikon (this was his first digital in 2006), after all.... he was great with film. The photos looked ok for my wife and I. We wernt too unhappy, we had to keep our cool because we still wanted our digitals (jpg's)
Wasnt shooting raw at the time and knew nothing about post processing. Anyway it was a decent price for what it was. I produced our actual album via digital in photoshop hardcover. Here is the kicker...the CD with all the photos on it came from freakin wallmart!!!! WTF???!!! Still wish I had paid a little more for someone else...

my wedding exacty except the lady that did ours sucked so bad, this was before i was in to photography as much as i am now, and teh worst part are tehre are no pictures of my wife and her dad walking down the isle and he passed away in january.

Domwolf wrote in post #14854236
I can take cheap photogs...... it's on them to lose on the end.

I can take bad photogs...... It's on the client for picking them to save money.

i can take overpaid photogs.....it's on the client for paying for a name not the work.

But what i can not take are FAKE ASS LIARS people ( won't call them photogs ) who steal the hard work of other photogs and post them on there website to get work !!!!!

ok i vented !!!!!!!! Thankyou

Those deserve to be social-stormed whenever located.

Doing a paid shoot ...their model was a whining about everything....finally walked up to model told her whine again your...gone...two shots later she started again...I went over to the marketing assistant that was hot grabbed her hand and led her to the spot I wanted her to stand...took a little longer posing her but she looked fantastic...clients are happy.. model fired by the clients....I got paid a bonus...

whiny models piss me off.... its your job...I don't care if its hot....I don't care if the fan makes you cold. show up on time pretend to have fun cuts down on time you, get paid and we can all leave early...is it that tough to stand their and look beautiful....

I had to deal with a high-maintenance model once... never tried modeling again... I prefer to babysit a roomful of 3 year olds...

PhotogNY wrote in post #14856679
I find Google Images works much better than Tineye. You just drag & drop your image into the search bar.

http://www.google.com …images/searchby​image.html

Wow, never knew about this. I just used it and found 4 of my pics being used in various blogs.

I used google images, tiny eye didn't help. I was upset that a newborn photo of my daughter has been stolen over, and over. My watermark is on it though It isn't very strong especially after being saved over and over again. And it has been put on sites, like facebook, pinterest, and tumblr with no link to credit so not sure how I could get it removed. I guess it just happens, and it explains why some people use huge watermarks.