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GeoLaing wrote:
I think we as photographers are mover concerned with image "quality" than our clients. They are more connected to the content of the image. I've never had a client say "That image is noisy...".
Could not have said it better myself.
I have also never had a client complain about a blown highlight, lack of shadow detail, vignetting or edge softness, the fact an image was shot in Jpeg rather than RAW, that I wasn't using a full frame camera or my camera wasn't the latest model. They also never complained because I was using a zoom rather than a prime lens or pretty much anything else photographers carry on about ad Nauseum.
I think a great many shooters are absoloutley obsessed with image quality and to the extent it must inhibit what they show and produce.
Shooters can rave on about producing quality results and their name and reputation being on the shots but after a point which pretty much every camera in 5+ years well exceed, that's just a lot of crap and shows they are completely out of touch with their clients wants and desires.
I always remember a guy I knew that was a real audiophile. ( Into Hi definition music for want of a better explanation) What sounded fine to 99% of the population sounded like crap to him. He was tuned into things and had studied sound so as to appreciate and discern what few other people could.
He also told me that a lot of the Audio nerds would argue about the quality of gear and base their positions on the ability of the gear to reproduce sounds that were out of the range of human hearing. As he said, " You won't tell the difference in sound quality but your dog is really going to appreciate that extra 5 grand you spent."
The only technicals clients look at is the shot has to be adequately ( Not perfectly, adequately) exposed, has nice bright colour and is in reasonably sharp focus. And it helps to have the subject in the centre of the shot because the majority don't appreciate the artistic off centre compositions.
Meet those low criteria and the other 95% of the clients appreciation of a picture is all in the content.
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Sep 20, 2015 at 11:00 AM |
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