La Sha: Life in North Georgia: Art I Hate week Day #2

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Art I Hate week Day #2

For today's entry of

Art I Hate

I humbly submit

for your disapproval

fauxtography.

Real photographers spend so much time, effort, and money on their craft that it kind of curdles my blood when I see someone charging unsuspecting clients hundreds of dollars for poorly edited, compositionless, over exposed, under planned "photo sessions". These days it's become so much of an epidemic that there's even a website devoted to the "art" of fauxtography:youarenotaphotographer.com

Everyone thinks they can buy a DSLR, run the crappy shots through a gauntlet of filters, and BAM! instant business! Now all that's left is to make a facebook fanpage for your "photography business", and start harassing every engaged couple you know about when they're going to set up their pre-wedding photoshoot.

Photography,

GOOD photography,

is expensive- most real photographers have at least 10K in their equipment.

It's time consuming,

but most of all..

it's hard.

Buying a Nikon Coolpix and trying to charge your friends for your "services" is easy.

All that being said,

I'm guilty of fauxtography- against myself.

(I would never ever ever charge anyone, but I've taken a bajillion bad pics of Elsie)

Once upon a time I loved photography, and took my FM10 everywhere I went.

(I didn't want to miss something good for the yearbook!)

Now all I have is a little point and shoot that's been dropped and just generally abused so much that I'm kind of surprised it takes pictures at all. I have no photo editing software, so if I want to edit something I use Paint and usually end up ruining it.

Dear Elsie,
Thanks for putting up with all my fauxtography efforts!
I love you.
Also, you're cute even in the janked up pictures I take.