I like this line: "I figured anyone could take pictures, but having the right shots, at the right angles will make all the difference in my advertising. I mean if I am going to spend 50k on advertising over the next year year and a half, I need top quality photos!"
So if 3% to 5% of media buy was a proper bid, it would be $1500 to $2500, based upon his $50k towards advertising. The bad part was he started his search for a photographer on Craig's List, where the main idea is bottom of the barrel lowest cost objective.
Posts: 978 | Location: Houston & San Diego | Registered: 16 June 2005
Some guy just posted the image on the forum- wow. Highlight/ Shadow overkill! Look at that sky! And a good photographer would have trimmed the rough grass in the foreground.
I thought it was interesting that the OP said "I guess I liked the pictures." Not too enthusiastic.
Posts: 122 | Location: Wheaton, IL | Registered: 31 October 2000
That was someone's version of trying to improve on the flat overcooked HDR and adding contrast back in - quite hideous.
Leonard,
If you thins this looks like an old site, you should see the Yahoo forum for ASMP Architectural. Annoying as it gets. Posters don't start new threads, just piggyback on existing ones. Impossible to follow.
Posts: 5249 | Location: Redondo Beach, CA USA | Registered: 14 June 2001
I did construction while in college and learned many useful things.
The best takeaway is that home builders/contractors are by and large morons, drunks, and losers.
I usually laugh when they call for images and send them to the local realtor who can take them with their cell phone camera for less than I can get a stick of gum . . . of course the stick of gum will break both their banks!
I especially like the post about the darkroom!
Posts: 843 | Location: California | Registered: 07 October 2005
The big difference is that contractors have it set-up to need a license to work in nearly every state in the US. While I am not big on licensing concept, imagine if photographers had a licensing set-up . . . then when you heard about some hack doing a job, you report him to the state authority, who either fine him, and/or make him pay for a license. I know . . . impractical, but that is the world in which contractors live.
Posts: 978 | Location: Houston & San Diego | Registered: 16 June 2005
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