Flickr Bicker
Merry Christmas everyone! I haven’t posted anything in such a long time cause I’ve been crazy busy with Nutcracker and holiday-related business, like overdosing on chocolate pecan pie. I just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays and let you know about all the new happenings on my Flickr. I made a post a while ago in which I brought up a photography competition that I was entering: the “International Teen Fashion Photo Competition.” I entered four photos, and although two of my photos made it to the top 60, I didn’t win any cash which was a little bit of a bummer. You can check out all my photos for that right here. I was supposed to take photos of students in four different settings… I go into more detail in the description of my Flickr set, so read all about it by clicking the link.
On another note, I have created a set on my Flickr called “the mashed potato too.” It is a set for all of my dance-related photos. There are a bunch of headshots and audition photos, so take a look at those. Ok, enough rambling for now. Happy Holidays and I hope everyone has a great Boxing Day tomorrow.
Over and Out.
Ok, calling him a Kraken-Man is a little bit harsh, but he was pretty rude. Allow me to explain. Lately, I’ve been going on craigslist and searching under the gigs section for ways to earn some extra Christmas cash. So I find this ad asking for someone to “airbrush” ten photos for ten bucks. Shitty deal; nevertheless, out of the goodness of my heart and the pleasure I take in editing photos, I offer to edit them for him. He sends me some pictures of this girl dressed in different outfits (he’s obviously running some sort of clothing company for children) and tells me that he just wants them to look really “professional and what not.” With these vague words in mind, I edit some of the photos and send them back to him to see what he thinks. Kraken-man writes back saying, “I dont know what to make of them, the airbrushing looks very grainy, very 1970′s, was that souposed to be the look? The ones I went u before airbrushing actually look brighter.” First of all, he didn’t even bother spell checking his email. Rude. Second of all, he called my pictures grainy, which means that he has awful eyesight because not only did I remove a ton of noise from his pictures, but I sharpened the edges and increased the overall quality of his shots. You can see one of my edits to the left. Above is the original, below is my edit. Anyway, I write him back telling him that I’d be happy to edit them in a different way, and he doesn’t even have the decency to reply to my email. Finally, I send him another email asking what the deal is, and he writes back telling me that he has found someone else. So I got paid jack shit for editing four of his photos and treating him like a little princess. Kraken-Man, you’ll get what’s comin’ to ya. Mark my words! I don’t mean to backbite craigslist, because I’ve had plenty of pleasant experiences with other people on craigslist… but this Kraken-Man is disgracing the entire website. And I DON’T like it. There you go. Rant is over. Peace.