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Response to I want to spend the next year of my life emulating this guy's work. Does that make me lame?

from alan dale (adale66@excite.com)
...A portfolio of shots of the girl next door, is going to look just like that. Whether you pay for it or your friends provide it, you need professional quality models, hair, makeup, (and retouching).

Portfolio shots of the girl next door are going to get you further than NOTHING which is what you will have if you sit there and wait for supermodels to show up and beg you to shoot them even though you are a total unknown without a single portfolio piece. Portfolio shots of some kind -- any kind -- can get you at least an assisting job. Assisting a photographer who is shooting a job will teach you 10x more than online forums and fashion magazines and will help you make the contacts that are so important in every profession. You need more than a "professional eye" and I take issue with the phrase "professional eye" when one is not earning money from photography...the phrase "We provide an advanced amateur photographer and fashion photography afficianado's discerning eye" would be more accurate. Start with the girl next door to learn about light, move on to the wanabees - then maybe someday, the professional talent.

(posted 8428 days ago)

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