Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the … floor!
I’m upset, fifty thousand on my head, it’s disrespect … Okay, so I might have used this song before, but I really am upset.
It’s 2018, filters are a thing and truth is that’s cool, but honestly, there is a time and place for everything. As a photographer, sometimes I find myself in need of a face to photograph. Do you know how hard it is to find a good face when every single picture has a filter on it? It’s like Angelina Jolie on social media and Gabrielle Union in person, and though both are beautiful, they look nothing alike. Okay, I went off on another rant and strayed from where I really intended to go initially.
Restart.
This rant is really about persons who contact or contract me as a professional photographer and turn around and put a filter on my finished images. Bro, you wanna fight? (Joking (not really)). Filtering an image is a routine that changes the appearance of an image or part of an image by altering the shades and colours of the pixels in some manner. Filters are used to increase brightness and contrast as well as to add a wide variety of textures, tones and special effects to a picture.
Persons who contract me pay to have their pictures taken. “Contractees” can get away with applying a filter on an image that I took and live to tell the tale. Once you’ve purchased the images, I am not totally concerned with what you do with them. It does hurt to see my good work tarnished by a filter and depending on the client I would tell them about it. It’s still my name attached to the images and my reputation on the line. However, I can breathe and let it slide.
Persons who contact me are persons that I collaborate with. “Contactees” tell no tales, if you know what I mean (LOL). If we collaborated on a project and you receive images from me, it is absolutely disrespectful to apply a filter to the images. It’s like a slap in the face or kick to the jewels. An indication that your Instagram filtering skills are better than my post production skills. Bro?
I sent an image to someone I collaborated with recently. Though the images received over 15,000 “likes” and brought engagement to my Instagram (@itscameronhyman heeeyyy), the filter on it made me throw up in my mouth. And it was too late by the time I saw it to ask them to remove it. Ugh!
I will eventually get back to regular writing, but for now I need to get some stuff of off my chest.
*No “contactees” have died in the making of this rant*
*Cues Bodies by Drowning Pool*
