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Awkward Stock Photos

September 3, 2010

Since my last post was all about stock I just had to tell you about this website: www.awkwardstockphotos.com the name says it all but really, some of these pictures, what were they thinking…

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July 29, 2010

Ya know if you are going to Photoshop images do it well, do it so that people can’t tell it’s been photoshopped, clean up a little wrinkle here, a blemish there… If you are a multi-national oil company that is spewing millions of barrels of oil into the sea please make sure you are really [...]

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Catalog Living

July 5, 2010

I have to thank my sister Jody for sending me this one, she’s a writer not a photographer but she totally gets it. This is a very gentle poke at the way homeware catalogues are styled, I love it. All the comforts of home… We’re so happy you could visit!  The room’s all made up [...]

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PhotoshopDisasters

June 29, 2010

I love photoshop disasters… It’s a constant reminder about what good Photoshop work is (or isn’t) about, oh yes and the captions are hilarious, here’s a typical one: In a bracingly antideconstructionist denouement Steven Meisel reinterprets the dichotomatic nature of classic Hegelian dialectics in the semiotically heterodoxical form of a “mirror reality” in which Natalia [...]

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No, you’re not a photographer, you just own a camera. | Facebook

March 27, 2010

For all those people trying to earn a crust, while competing with the likes of Uncle Bob, who will do your wedding photos for £50 and that emo kid with the 300D who is a pro because he has a D in GCSE photography…. We don’t want to come over as arrogant, or wanting to [...]

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Clients from hell..

February 23, 2010

There’s a blog where people share experiences of their clients from hell. It’s been around for a while but I pop back from time to time and always have a bit of a chuckle at this sort of thing: Client: “I don’t think your fee is resonable for the amount of work you did.” Me: [...]

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