Fuck it, I can't post these rants on my business website, twitter, facebook, or even my personal facebook.  It'll piss people off who I don't necessarily want to piss off.  I don't care if anyone finds out who I am, I just can't represent this directly on my sites and social media.

So, this is about photography and video.

Look, I can't go on my friends posts, or rival photographers and point out to everyone what the fuck is wrong with their photos.  It's poor form, it reeks of jealousy, but I swear it comes from a better place than that.  I see this photographer taking shots for this local group of girls that promotes local bands.  The shots are bad, in bad light, at bad angles, and then on top of it all, poorly edited in ways that are blatantly obvious to photographers.

I get it, you get a decent camera and you start taking shots, and people start telling you your work is great.  The masses will hump the like button on anything that's slightly better than their shitty cell phone shots.  It's easy to take better pictures than 50% of people.  It's not easy to take pictures in the top 1% or even 10%.  There are good photographers out there, and they even exist in your own home town.  The problem is, you see a decent shot of you for the first time and you're like yay that's awesome.  No, no it isn't.  It looks like shit and it isn't helping you.

I would rather shoot for some of these people for free, if only to show them the difference between a snapshot with an ok camera and a great shot from someone that knows what he's doing.  I just want them to have good photos that make them look good and help them.

I wish I could call these shit show photographers out and just rip them apart.  All that would do, though, is get those clients defending the person and then they'll never have me shoot for them.  So whatever,

That's just one of the many things that piss me off about the local scene.  There's a ton of photographers out here working that are just not good.  Stop listening to your family, critique your own work, send it out for critique, and find out how to fix yourself.  If you can't, then give up and move on to something you are good at.