Comments on: “Crappy” work http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/ Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua writes on the photo business and marketing Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dan Kozma http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/#comment-269 Dan Kozma Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:39:38 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/#comment-269 Well said. 4 words to live by: "'Good enough' never is." Well said. 4 words to live by:

“‘Good enough’ never is.”

]]> By: David Stith http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/#comment-266 David Stith Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:26:07 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/#comment-266 Coffee is a commodity, just ask Starbucks! There will always be a market for those that don't know the difference between a good and bad image, price is king and any picture that consumer didn't take is a good picture. Hopefully, that is not the market for a creative professional photographer. Recently, I was asked to donate the use of my lighting equipment for a local fund raiser.. I suggested they contact local portrait photographer to see if they could put together a package. They ended up finding local folks to contribute backgrounds and lighting for free and found a local amateur to take the images. They charged prices for packages that were barely above the cost of processing. I am sure they think things were a great success, the non-profit made some money. Can't say how the photos turned out, haven't seen them. It could have been a win-win situation.. but I suspect that at least a few of the folks were disappointed with the work.. and certainly the local portrait photographers were just shaking their heads. Coffee is a commodity, just ask Starbucks! There will always be a market for those that don’t know the difference between a good and bad image, price is king and any picture that consumer didn’t take is a good picture. Hopefully, that is not the market for a creative professional photographer.

Recently, I was asked to donate the use of my lighting equipment for a local fund raiser.. I suggested they contact local portrait photographer to see if they could put together a package. They ended up finding local folks to contribute backgrounds and lighting for free and found a local amateur to take the images. They charged prices for packages that were barely above the cost of processing. I am sure they think things were a great success, the non-profit made some money. Can’t say how the photos turned out, haven’t seen them. It could have been a win-win situation.. but I suspect that at least a few of the folks were disappointed with the work.. and certainly the local portrait photographers were just shaking their heads.

]]> By: Ed McCulloch http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/#comment-265 Ed McCulloch Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:53:52 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2006/11/27/crappy-work/#comment-265 Leslie- Awesome post. I love it. If people stood up for themselves more and more, the crappy clients would eventually be eliminated from the gene pool. I met a photographer a few weeks ago who produces crappy work for crappy clients. He is stuck in a rut to saying yes and lives a creatively miserable life because of it. I asked what he really loved to do and he pulled out a stack of prints that were amazing. I smiled, laughed and almost cried. We need to pull together to help put an end to crappy non-creative work. Thanks Leslie! Leslie-

Awesome post. I love it. If people stood up for themselves more and more, the crappy clients would eventually be eliminated from the gene pool.

I met a photographer a few weeks ago who produces crappy work for crappy clients. He is stuck in a rut to saying yes and lives a creatively miserable life because of it. I asked what he really loved to do and he pulled out a stack of prints that were amazing. I smiled, laughed and almost cried.

We need to pull together to help put an end to crappy non-creative work.
Thanks Leslie!

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