"great success!" - Borat
so, not only is the couple "super-excited" to work with me (a direct quote from the wedding planner) but the wedding planner herself wants to set up a shoot with me! hate on that, bitches! LMAO
I'm referring, of course, to the darling little hater that took it upon themselves to send me a myspace note yesterday "Annonymus"-ly (again, a direct quote) to tell me just how much I suck as a photographer. according to them, they have been photographing professionally for years, and think I am an embarrassment to the realm of photography as a whole. to which I replied, "it must be sad to have such slow business as a photographer that you have time to preoccupy yourself with my atrocious work. and you misspelled anonymous." or something along those lines.
I must admit I was a little ticked off at first. but then I thought about it and realized...I know a few photographers whose work is not great. because it's not great, I am not threatened, therefore I say and do nothing. On the other hand, if I see someones work that I admire, I might ask a few technical questions to get some ideas and perhaps learn. Of course, this involves (as an indirect side effect) me admitting someone has more skill than I. I would never waste my time sending someone a hateful rant littered with "justifications" of "i don't mean to hurt your feelings, but (insert overly harsh criticism and foul language here)"
however, I am a more developed human being than some others I have met. For example, hateful rant or not, if I believe strongly enough in an opinion to tell it to ANYONE, I would absolutely sign my name to it, seeing as I do not lack the conviction to stand behind my thoughts. I also find it particularly funny how because of the manner of this person's "advice", I can pretty much tell this is not the kind of person with the testicular fortitude to say, come up to me at an exhibit and criticize my work like a real grown-up. this is a person that might make a snarky remark to their friend at the show (which they'd go to, no matter how horrendous my photos, just to gain ammo) and then maybe blog about my overall awful-ness...
the fact is that even if my work is inferior to this person's (and I'll never know, mostly because they didn't even give me the benefit of letting me critique their work as well) the fact is that this person has the time to sift through each and every one of my photos and come up with their two cents...so if this person IS a photographer, they must not be getting any work, regardless of their "talent". One person found my work so horrible that they took the trouble to make an anonymous page (I still smile whenever I think that someone took that much time just for little ol' me) but guess what...literally HUNDREDS of people have added my page because they LIKE my work, I am booked solid for the next 4 months, and I have interest from a gallery. People are trusting me with their wedding for crying out loud, and they're PAYING ME for it...so maybe if this person focused more on getting work themselves, they'd be as successful as I and maybe would have less time for making fake profiles.
just a thought.
I'm referring, of course, to the darling little hater that took it upon themselves to send me a myspace note yesterday "Annonymus"-ly (again, a direct quote) to tell me just how much I suck as a photographer. according to them, they have been photographing professionally for years, and think I am an embarrassment to the realm of photography as a whole. to which I replied, "it must be sad to have such slow business as a photographer that you have time to preoccupy yourself with my atrocious work. and you misspelled anonymous." or something along those lines.
I must admit I was a little ticked off at first. but then I thought about it and realized...I know a few photographers whose work is not great. because it's not great, I am not threatened, therefore I say and do nothing. On the other hand, if I see someones work that I admire, I might ask a few technical questions to get some ideas and perhaps learn. Of course, this involves (as an indirect side effect) me admitting someone has more skill than I. I would never waste my time sending someone a hateful rant littered with "justifications" of "i don't mean to hurt your feelings, but (insert overly harsh criticism and foul language here)"
however, I am a more developed human being than some others I have met. For example, hateful rant or not, if I believe strongly enough in an opinion to tell it to ANYONE, I would absolutely sign my name to it, seeing as I do not lack the conviction to stand behind my thoughts. I also find it particularly funny how because of the manner of this person's "advice", I can pretty much tell this is not the kind of person with the testicular fortitude to say, come up to me at an exhibit and criticize my work like a real grown-up. this is a person that might make a snarky remark to their friend at the show (which they'd go to, no matter how horrendous my photos, just to gain ammo) and then maybe blog about my overall awful-ness...
the fact is that even if my work is inferior to this person's (and I'll never know, mostly because they didn't even give me the benefit of letting me critique their work as well) the fact is that this person has the time to sift through each and every one of my photos and come up with their two cents...so if this person IS a photographer, they must not be getting any work, regardless of their "talent". One person found my work so horrible that they took the trouble to make an anonymous page (I still smile whenever I think that someone took that much time just for little ol' me) but guess what...literally HUNDREDS of people have added my page because they LIKE my work, I am booked solid for the next 4 months, and I have interest from a gallery. People are trusting me with their wedding for crying out loud, and they're PAYING ME for it...so maybe if this person focused more on getting work themselves, they'd be as successful as I and maybe would have less time for making fake profiles.
just a thought.