Today I got a surprisingly rude email from someone in response to my ad. They didn't even visit my site and based their assumptions off of the three family pictures that were on my ad. What possesses people to write something like this?
"Yet another girl with a camera that thinks they can moonlight as a photographer without the proper education and real world experience. I hope you feel great about ruining peoples once in a life time events with badly exposed, badly lit, awfully composed images that were taken with some cheap camera. You are not a photographer, you are a camera owner."
You are more than welcome to check out my site. I accept criticism - when it's not straight-up rude and full of assumptions.
I was expecting real crap. Nothing of the sort. I think the majority of your images are well done. Certainly better than much of what I see. I would love to see what your ad looked like because that email is off the wall.
Somebody must have been having a REALLY bad hair day - your photos are lovely.
I, personally, dislike weird angles in photos, but I bet if I came to you as a customer, you'd make a note of that and keep the angled ones to a minimum, right?
You look perfectly capable of delivering what your clients need and want, so that person just needs a few chill pills. Don't lose sleep over that email.
Unfortunately, in MY opinion, those three are not as nice as others I have seen on your slideshow.
However, before writing such an email, the person SHOULD have gone to check out the rest of them.
Thanks for pointing out that typo. Beetle I do agree that those probably aren't the best of my family pictures. I just used those ones because the other pictures are on my old computer. Maybe next time I should just take the extra time and putting up the better photos.
You have some really, really lovely pictures in your portfolio, the ad unfortunately does not reflect this at all.That does not excuse the rude email, it's just an observation that I hope is helpful :)
Thank you for your feedback. I put up some different pictures. Sadly their viewer makes them not look as nice. I appreciate all of your nice comments. You made me feel better :)
No, they didn't send me details, but their email had studio1utah in it, but it turns out it wasn't them.
edited to update information so studio 1 doesn't get the blame anymore
Yeah....I'm just not seeing what is so bad about your photos. They look great! I can only imagine the people on the other end of the camera were pleased. There is no reason they shouldn't be. :)
People can be such #%#@ sometimes....probably spilled hot coffee on themselves a few times too. :)
I put up some different pictures. Sadly their viewer makes them not look as nice.
Find out the "native size" (in pixels) of the template slots you are fitting and then resize them to that size yourself, so you can fix/tweak any problems caused by the resampling. Make it so they don't have to resize the pictures at all.
