Beautiful photo goes viral online

[Jeannine]

i just love good news stories especially one with beautiful photos and this is both

the look on the doggies face says it all

Beautiful photo goes viral online - Yahoo!7

 

[miss_mosher]

That is just bloody beautiful! Almost brought a tear to my eye!

 

[Jeannine]

well it did bring a tear to my eyes, such love shown on the face of his owner for his mate, and the look on Schoep's face says it all

 

[Hannahmania]

It is a beautiful story, but I can't say I love the way a fairly average photographer is using the image to make money. The article itself actually annoys me a bit! I would have liked to read more about the man and his dog, not about some so-called photographer.

(Sorry - I am a photographer by trade, and one of my pet hates is photographers using someone elses powerful moment (both positive, and more so negative) to gain glory for themselves. It isn't about them, it is about the people in the photo! And it bugs me even more when I check out their website and see how many basic technical issues their are in their work.)

 

[miss_mosher]

That's what I'd do for my pooch, dogs truly are a best mate. No other creature displays that kind of unconditional love

 

[Jeannine]

i would also do it for my babies

while i tend to agree to some of what your saying Hannahmania i like how shes donating some of the money towards the vet bill for Schoep though i guess his owner would probably be able to afford it but its a nice gesture, maybe the rest of the money made could have gone to a local shelter for dogs to help them

 

[Hannahmania]

As someone in the industry, that is a fairly obvious marketing ploy.

There are two ways to do donations. The respectable way is to do it in a complete, selfless way - so 100% of profits go to the cause. I did this when the vic bush fires happpened a couple of years ago, along with a group of other photographers.

The backhanded way is to use someone else's plight to promote and make money for yourself. If she sells 10 copies of that photo to people who feel compelled to "help" the poor dog, she is still going to pocket a fair amount of money she wouldn't have otherwise made.

Ok - back off high horse now. Lol

 

[Hamalicious]

I do agree that people shouldnt be making money from someone elses miss fortune and it does seem like a fairly obvious marketing ploy, but i still think it's a bit unfair to have a go at them for being an amateur. Everyone has to start somewhere and im sure they arent being malicious in anyway. They just took a nice photo and they're trying to earning a living from it.

 

[Hannahmania]

To put it into a herp scenario, it is kinda like someone who has a Spotted female and a Stimson male, decides to breed them, and sells the hatchies off at $80 each. Because of the availability of cheap, decent cameras these days, the industry is hugely polluted by armatures selling off their work. Unknowing innocent people get burnt. (Possibly not the best example - but any professional service needs the knowledge and skill to back it up. If you are taking a persons money, you need to be providing them with something of the appropriate quality to earn it). The content of that photo is beautiful, but the photo itself is really not up to a professional standard.

This is a massive issue in the photography industry.

But skill level aside, either way I believe the whole articles perspective is just dodgy. It isn't about the man and his dog, it is all about the photographer who took the snap trying to sell themselves.

Anyway, I didn't mean to derail te thread, sorry. I really need to not post in the middle of the night. Lol