Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by yanko:
Well it still rubs me the wrong way. If it was me, I would credit everyone who help shape the final image rather than take all the credit myself. If there was a creative director who came up with the concept/vision, he or she would get that credit as would the makeup artists, stylists and post production artists. If that just makes me the guy who clicked the shutter, posed the model and arranged the lighting, both of which ended up needing to be fixed by someone else in post, then so be it. |
In the movies the director and the producer get the most prominent credits (not counting the stars of course) and the photographer is way down the list, relatively. The lighting people and the editing people don't tend to get much face time either. Maybe we should seek parity with films by upgrading the models to top billing, upgrading the art director to near-top billing, and so forth?
I'm vaguely tongue-in-cheek here, of course. It's just the way it always has been, and of course the PHOTOGRAPHERS aren't gonna rush to change anything because, frankly, if the average client realized how poor the average photographer's work really was (I am speaking commercial photography here) and how much of the success of the finished shot is in the hands of the photoshoppers, then the clients might start to think "Aha! I'll hire the photoshopper, give him/her a budget, and let him/her contract out the photography so s/he has something to work with!" :-)
R. |
*lol* being a graphic artist and photographer would that mean i could hire myself and do my own photoshopping and make both profits!? YAYYYYYYYY :) :-D |
