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 p.4 #7 · Gorgeous Country Girl {with her horse} | |
This is the one problem with Lisa's threads. I'm just not sure how so many people find her pictures to be so amazing, and then some people come in and focus on something that they feel is wrong with her image, or processing, and either it's really not explained, or it's just plain wrong. I can't find any artifacts on her face. And the idea of her adding a blur to the girl's face, or neck, or whatever... is just... well, wrong.
You guys call her defensive, I call her prideful. I'm a halfway decent photographer in a metro area of around 10 million people and I struggle to keep 500 people on my Facebook page. She's in the middle of a desert, Kingman, AZ, and she's got 20,000 loyal followers on her Facebook page. Not even Tony Hoffer has those numbers. Spencer Boerup, who is amazing, has 1666 FB followers. Cliff Mautner, one of the top wedding photographers in the country, has less than 8,000 followers on Facebook. Jerry Ghionis, with his incredible marketing machine, a speaker at every national event in the USA it seems, has 18,000 Facebook followers. All fewer than little 'ol Lisa Holloway in Kingman, AZ. Why? Cuz she produces amazing work, both with her camera and with her post-processing.
Her post-processing is so good, she has has virtual workshops and they're always completely booked months in advance. Every one of them.
Does that mean she's perfect? Nope. But what it does mean is that she's pretty damned good, and to critique her fairly, you have to be on your game. There are a lot of people in this thread alone who offered her advice on a number of different things, and it was the way they presented it that impacted how she took it. She has taken advice and made improvements to her shots, through cropping or whatever, based on critiques and suggestions from us. So how is that defensive? It's not. But when you come across as a jerk, it's not going to come across well.
And by the way, this is from her other thread, humor is only funny when we're all laughing. Add that to your definition. When you're laughing/creating humor at the expense of others, to me that's just not funny.
Flame away. Or better yet, go shoot some great shots and do some great editing, so damned good you have 20,000 faithful followers on Facebook. But first, maybe, you need to get yourself a website.
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