I recently had a a collaborative job with another photographer for my full time employer. He handed me over files to bundle our photos for handover and his work was awful. Bad colours, out of focus and banding in the skies. Bad framing etc. Just all round sub standard. I spent a full day editing his work because we split up the work i had to use his photos too. I had a look through his online portfolio and connected on LinkedIn and he constantly posts bad photos with his logo on them. However he’s good at business and has been a professional photographer for 30 years and does so many jobs freelance. I just can’t believe how confident he is putting out substandard work. Its something we can all be guilty of but this was another level of bad.
I started out in photography straight from school and by the time I was 22 I thought I was amazing. I look back now 16 years later and laugh at my mediocre photography and cock sure confidence. I’m now 10 times more skilled and experienced but with only half the confidence. Has anyone else cone across photographer like this at professional level?
In short I worked with a photographer who’s bad but doesn’t seem to know it.
Yeah i think that’s it. He’s just good enough for the jobs he goes after. Photography is a wide genre too. He’s a generalist at a certain price point. As i said I believe most of his customers are happy. I’ve seen some terrible photography in my time and alot of it in my own camera. We’re not all perfect all the time. We have off days. Average customers look at subject matter and won’t get hung up on colour, contrast or exposure like we do. I started oit studying photography in college. It was all fine art photography. I loved it. Alot of technically imperfect photography in art but alot of emotion and depth. That’s subjective. I now work in a commercial setting where technical perfection is very important.