p.1 #8 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
People reply on a local message board that they've put in their order to look good in front of everyone like they are supporting you, to never see an order from them.
p.1 #9 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
Overheard:
He only gets the better shots because he has a cheater lens.
I know how to get the photo's off his site for free!
I wished he'd give me the photo's he takes of me. Why do we have to pay for them?
One guy even had the guts to come up to me and said: "You made my son the talk of his friends with those start photo's, he put them on his cell phone to show everyone. Maybe I should buy some of them." To my surprise, 3 days later he did buy the prints!
p.1 #13 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
You are focused on the play at home, when a kid hits a hard line-drive to second base and the second baseman makes a fantastic diving catch and the coach and parents come running over and ask "did you get a shot of that?"
p.1 #14 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
impressnow wrote:
You are focused on the play at home, when a kid hits a hard line-drive to second base and the second baseman makes a fantastic diving catch and the coach and parents come running over and ask "did you get a shot of that?"
Seems to happen all the time.............
Amen brother!
p.1 #15 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
...You get a phone call from a mom refusing to pay your price for pictures when she can get prints at Wal-Mart for $0.18 a piece.
The phone call went something like this:
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Mom - I shouldn't have to pay that amount for pictures when Wal-Mart is so much cheaper. Why don't you just email me the photos and I will take them to be printed there?
Me - Ummm, I am sorry, but the cost of the photo is not solely the cost of printing it. There is my time, the equipment,...
Mom - Well I shouldn't have to pay for all of that stuff. I just want my son's pictures. They ARE pictures of my son, so those pictures should be mine.
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On another note, I took some great pictures of Mt. Rainier this summer. I guess that mountain should now be mine.
p.1 #16 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
sjames19 wrote:
...You get a phone call from a mom refusing to pay your price for pictures when she can get prints at Wal-Mart for $0.18 a piece.
The phone call went something like this:
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Mom - I shouldn't have to pay that amount for pictures when Wal-Mart is so much cheaper. Why don't you just email me the photos and I will take them to be printed there?
Me - Ummm, I am sorry, but the cost of the photo is not solely the cost of printing it. There is my time, the equipment,...
Mom - Well I shouldn't have to pay for all of that stuff. I just want my son's pictures. They ARE pictures of my son, so those pictures should be mine.
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On another note, I took some great pictures of Mt. Rainier this summer. I guess that mountain should now be mine....Show more →
+1 ... had a mom ask me if I was going to sell prints for 35 cents each like one of the players grandfather did in the past ... she was very disappointed with my response ... guess grandpa didn't have any overhead .... unfortunately I do.
p.1 #17 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
... when you set every light in your house behind you and make sure that nothing is backlit.
... when you set the f/stop and SS of your REMs before going to bed to make sure your dreams are properly exposed.
... when you tell your spouse to dress up in pinstripes and blackshorts and ask her to stand in front of your TV during peak action with her ass right in your face because it's the only thing you have been seeing lately.
... when you redo all the windows in your house to a 4 x 6 aspect ratio.
... when you convince your spouse that all your shortcomings will be fixed with a blue dot and the next firmware upgrade.
... when you cover your back focus finger blisters with gaffers tape.
... when you convince your wife that your love life will be so much better if she allows you to photograph it....
... with strobes.
Edited by P Alesse on Sep 10, 2008 at 05:31 PM GMT
p.1 #18 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
The moon one cracks me up ... why oh why do they ask that one all the time? It's the freakin moon ... can't you see it just fine with the lens of your eyeball?
Also the other night I caught myself thinking to myself ... "Oh this is nice, the away team's uniforms are a nice neutral middle grey" - seems like only a photog would think of something like that.
p.1 #19 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
It amazes me how many people talk about you, three feet away from you and seem to think you can't hear them. As for the moon comment, I got that one too, and all I was carrying was my 70-200VR
p.1 #20 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
P Alesse wrote:
... when you set every light in your house behind you and make sure that nothing is backlit.
... when you set the f/stop and SS of your REMs before going to bed to make sure your dreams are properly exposed.
... when you tell your spouse to dress up in pinstripes and blackshorts and ask her to stand in front of your TV during peak action with her ass right in your face because it's the only thing you have been seeing lately.
... when you redo all the windows in your house to a 4 x 6 aspect ratio.
... when you convince your spouse that all your shortcomings will be fixed with a blue dot and the next firmware upgrade.
... when you cover your back focus finger blisters with gaffers tape.
... when you convince your wife that your love life will be so much better if she allows you to photograph it....
... with strobes.
Edited by P Alesse on Sep 10, 2008 at 05:31 PM GMT...Show more →
ROFL ...BTW why does that thumb get blisters anyway?
...BTW why does that thumb get blisters anyway?