Originally posted by kooks That happens a lot with portrait shooters that do beauty, use the same recipe, over and over, same lights, same settings.. just change the faces, but even editing is kind of mechanize, because most of this shots follow the same editing steps.
I think that happens in all genres, Kooks, what you're really talking about is how lazy the photographer is.
You can have corporate headshot gigs and sure, the job is to get everyone's directory pics to match. A real estate photographer might have four houses to do on a Thursday so each time he's going to place the same three flashes in the living room and point to the corner where the external window is. A sports photographer can sit on the same corner and get the same cars lifting the same wheel at the bend, over and over again.
If you shoot the same style again and again, your portfolio won't get you anywhere with the art director for Vogue. It's just apparent to them you're limited.
Have a look at Mario Testino's work (he's from the same continent as you), he can do it all in high fashion. Strobes or natural light he's a master, and take all the fancy gear and models away from him, he then turns into a wonderful street photographer, too.
Skill trumps equipment …. and it doesn't have to cost a cent.
It's probably why I have some sympathy for Yuri who thinks becoming a better photographer will improve pictures in a way that spending on gear can't.
Last edited by clackers; 08-24-2018 at 01:18 AM.