Honesty in Photography

There seems to be a disturbing trend in some photographer’s websites. They are using images shot by other photographers and representing them as their own. I’m not sure what the explanation for this is, but the best I can tell is that they are trying to mislead potential customers into hiring them.

I feel bad for the customers that hire a photographer expecting a certain level of technical, professional, and artistic skill and are disappointed by the results. I’m sure that they had no idea that some of the photos they liked on the website, were created by someone else.

I suppose the Internet is a double edge sword. While it makes it easy to find information and businesses, it also makes it easy to steal other people’s work. So if you are photographer who made the decision to use someone else’s work and call it your own, cut it out. When you do this, it makes us all look bad.

Well that’s it for this week. I’ll get off my soap box now.

Thanks for reading and be sure to check out the photos in my galleries. I shot them all myself. 🙂

-Ken.