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 p.2 #19 · Anyone using Virtual Backgrounds System? | |
Ok it is time to end all of this. This is not an advertisement but an explanation. The sole purpose of my posting was an attempt to get the author of the original post to respond either to me directly or by means of the Forum. You will notice that the author of the original post has not responded to the Forum and I can tell you not even to me personally.
Yes I work for Virtual Backgrounds (so I am a vendor) but I am also a Professional Photographer for just short of 50 years that has worked with Virtual Backgrounds and taught others how to work with Virtual Backgrounds. I have seen a lot of products come and go. Some of them worked and some did not. Also some products worked for some photographers while the same product did not work for others. I am currently talking with a young photographer who purchased a Virtual Backgrounds System from another photographer who said the system did not work. This young photographer is working with the very same Virtual Backgrounds System (that did not work) and is creating great images (selling the images) and speaking from the platform about Virtual Backgrounds. My point here is that a Virtual Backgrounds System is a tool and will work well if the photographer will work with it correctly. If the photographer does not work with the Virtual Backgrounds correctly it shows in the final image. Just as if you do not work in Photoshop correctly the end result is not nice.
Back to why my post. It is so very frustrating to me to have people ask questions to people who do not own the equipment or have not used the equipment. You can see by all the initial posts that those posting really had no idea about Virtual Backgrounds, how it could be used etc. So the author of the original post really gained nothing but false information. Is there anyone out there that really wants to make decisions about their business based on false information? I don’t think so.
All the author of the original post had to do was to contact me or anyone of the consultants at Virtual Backgrounds and ask to talk with photographers that are actually working with Virtual Backgrounds. There is information on the website under the “Feature Photographer” section or names would have been given to him to contact. Virtual Backgrounds has nothing to hide and welcomes potential purchasers to talk with owners.
Also the author of the original post could attend any one of the monthly Virtual Backgrounds Training Workshops where he would be exposed to lectures, demonstrations and actual hands on with Virtual Backgrounds Systems. By the way he lives just 4 hours from Virtual Backgrounds. The training workshop is a very intense and informative three days. The workshop classes are purposely kept small in numbers so that there is enough time to answer questions, demonstrate solutions and get plenty of good hands on. What better way to make a solid business decision than with first hand information and hands on.
The author of the original post did none of the above but was depending on information from those who knew nothing about the product. Virtual Backgrounds has the answers but you have to ask the question first so that we know what information to give.
In the photography world today there are a lot of changes going on and one is that everyone who purchases a digital camera thinks they can do professional work. They don’t know lighting, fundamentals of posing or much of anything about photography but they are successfully taking business away from the professional. Family members, amateurs, high school seniors taking images of other high school seniors for their Senior Pictures, parents and family members taking images of their school age children so that they do not have to purchase “school pictures”. These people are not going to go away anytime soon so what should a professional photographer do?
The professional photographer can close up or he or she can go to battle and market harder, be more creative and provide more variety to the customer. If you as the photographer like to work outside and battle the elements that is fine but remember that is where your competition is also working and if you like to work with a canvas or seamless – how different are you really being? Can you use green screen? Sure you can but how well do you work with green screen and how much variety and time are you spending. Can your lab do the green screen for you? Sure they can but what control do you have, at what price and what is the selling process to your clients really like? Do you need green screen? No you don’t you can work in Photoshop and drop in backgrounds if you have the time. Is Virtual Backgrounds the only answer? No it is not. A true professional photographer should be able to offer his or her clients the maximum variety for the maximum sale. A professional photographer should be able to offer clients images from the outdoors, indoors, canvas, muslin, seamless paper or any other way possible to increase the sale. A Virtual Backgrounds System is just a system that allows the professional photographer to be as creative as possible 24 hours a day seven days a week. Unfortunately a Virtual Backgrounds System will only produce the kind of images and the quality of images that the operator is capable of. It is just a tool in the hands of a photographer that depends on the ability of the photographer.
I know that “Common Sense” is dead but that does not mean that when one asks for information that the person providing the information should be ignored. A simple “Thanks not ready yet” or “Sorry I am not interested” or “How do I find out more” would be the common sense reply. But when there is no response some sort of action has to be taken and my post was my action. One or two sarcastic words in a post mean nothing and that is why my post.
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