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LBrimhallPhoto wrote:
"Next time the person in question has something to say in his defense, he can come on here and say it himself instead of you doing it for him please."
Whoa. I had followed your points up 'til here. This is the moment where I began to empathize with your second shooter. Your response above is an unfathomable retort to a disinterested third party forum member who took time out of their day to provide the very feedback you specifically requested in your original post, where you asked:
LBrimhallPhoto wrote:
"I'm not sure if I'm over reacting. Would anyone else be upset by these things or his reactions to me addressing them? Just trying to get some perspective. "
So someone gives you some perspective, and you bite their head off? Hmmm....
That was a stark reminder that there is usually two sides to every story, which made me also wonder what, from the "perspective" of a second shooter, might that other side be?
LBrimhallPhoto wrote:
"He officially took more photos than I did."
You can't buy a person's energy. You can't purchase a person's passion. You can pay them. You can pay them well. But energy is engaged, not bought. Passion is pursued, not paid for. How often in life have we seen underpaid people move mountains, and over paid people move from the water cooler to their smoke break... slowly. The real fire in the belly, where full engagement is energized, is fueled by other, less tangible motivations. For your second shooter, you seem to suspect that one of those motivations might be...
LBrimhallPhoto wrote:
"He seems more concerned about getting shots that might win him awards... if I had to wager it probably has to do with him getting a big head over winning a few awards recently."
You mentioned this several times. In fact, the quote immediately above is an amalgam of two different snipe(t)s of yours where you mention this, not praisingly, but almost resentfully... which can potentially be interpreted as envy. Yet even if true, and winning awards motivated him to work his butt off engaging all of his energies to produce the best captures possible... then you too become a winner, as you also admitted in a third post, on behalf of your clients. That extra effort that a photographer pushes her or himself to achieve often doesn't come from $600 a day vs $400 a day. It comes from the thrill of a sense of Accomplishment. Acknowledgment. Appreciation. A pat on the back. A compliment. Those motivating "awards" could just as easily and effectively come directly from you.
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