Commercial photography

快樂牛郎

It's amazing how much photography has gone downhill since photoshop and DSLRs

My friend just told me one of her friends hired this guy to do engagement shots

http://www.alexshiu.com/blog/

I guess nowadays you just need to hire a monkey to take the shots and you work on the post-processing at home.

吳孟達

Client will think you are unprofessional if you don't use DSLRs and PS. Hahaha

快樂牛郎

Client will think you are unprofessional if you don't use DSLRs and PS. Hahaha
吳孟達 發表於 2012/4/17 15:50

I don't think clients know anything. You just need to somehow convince them that you are very good, best in the industry.

chobit

Some of the photos are heavily processed, but there are some great pictures there.  Wanna to share more of what you like or you don't?

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快樂牛郎

Some of the photos are heavily processed, but there are some great pictures there.  Wanna to share m ...
chobit 發表於 2012/4/17 16:46

Granted, not every single one is bad. This one is decent



However, most are so heavily processed to the border of comic illustrations. For me, an engagement shoot is all about the mood and the emotions between the two subjects. But by using such a heavy processing technique, everything else is completely buried under and all your eyes can see are plastic skins and ridiculously surreal graphics.

Even my friend who forwarded me these photos said she could feel a shiver when she saw these.

So the question is, why are the two people in this shoot so dumb to pay for this kind of stuff? I guess that's the state the world is in?

FiChai

Actually I'm glad that there are different photography styles on the market for different clients to choose from. But I am surprised that why your friend decided to pick this studio and turned out they don't like the outcome?!

快樂牛郎

Actually I'm glad that there are different photography styles on the market for different clients to ...
FiChai 發表於 2012/4/17 18:03

no it was my friend's friend who hired them
and her friend is VERY happy about the outcome

Just that both my friend and I are completely turned off by the images. I would be so ashamed to show these to my friends if I were the one being photographed.

快樂牛郎

The biggest problem to me, is that, true photography is timeless and classic. People nowdays are still admiring Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Kertesz, Richard Avedon and you name it. But this kind of tacky stuff, even if it looks good to some people today, might look completely disgusting in 10 or 15 years when people's tastes change. So you do one of these engagement shoots and maybe 15 years later you will be so ashamed of it. Well, maybe you will just find it amusing and wonder what you were thinking.

Catpiano

What's wrong with them??

chobit

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I think I get your point here.  Your friend should have do the picking what she wanted herself.

I think they dp lag a emotion piece, but capture the environment/surrounding along with the couple fine.  So, like someone else says here, its the matter of style.

And honestly that's very typical Asian style.

Another thing I realized after shooting Weddings for number of years is to not over spend your money on pre wedding pictures.  Spend the money on the wedding day pictures where the real emotion moments are.