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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:23 +0100 (BST), Jon@NOonlySPAMbrowsingTHANX.com
(Jon O'Brien) wrote:
>In article <4g4tf190lrhri7gmrt6u3o18g00p22sajs@4ax.com>,
>hecate@newsguy.com (Hecate) wrote:
>
>> ...I've seen some of the EU proposals for Photography and cross EU
>> qualification.
>
>I wasn't aware of them. Are they online anywhere?
Not that I know of, but you're welcome to try and find them on the EU
site if you have a couple of years spare ;-)
The proposals were about a range of arts/crafts and, for instance,
would mean that you supposedly had transferable skills across the EU.
The other side of that coin was that you couldn't set up as a
photographer anywhere in the EU *without* those qualifications except
insofar as your home country allows you to - so, for example, if you
wanted to go and be a photographer in Germany without the
"professional" qualification, you couldn't.
>> I can understand why they want them when you get idiots like that.
>
>As with many EU proposals, they're no doubt well intentioned but will
>probably just make things harder for the jobbing photographer. It's
>already becoming difficult for good professionals to earn a decent living
>because people aren't prepared to pay what the job's really worth. Most
>people can't tell the difference between a mediocre photograph and a good
>one, anyway.
Generally true unfortunately, though if you put a lot of mediocre ones
next to a good one, people often go "wow" when they get to the good
one
>I was at a wedding yesterday and there was no official photographer. The
>couple saved ~£1,500 or so by asking friends to take photographs. They'll
>probably be happy with the majority of the snaps that people took with
>compacts and even phones! Especially as they'll almost certainly just make
>a computer slideshow with them, so resolution won't be such an issue. They
>probably haven't even thought about their g-g-grandchildren not being able
>to see them if the CD/DVD they store them on gets damaged and they lose
>the lot.
Yeah - most people don't realise the life span of what they have
>> >I did point out to my wife that it might have been a good idea to ask
>> > to see some of his previous work before committing to a session. It
>> > didn't go down too well.
>> >
>> You have a death wish? ;-)
>
>No. Just a lack of diplomacy filter between brain and mouth.
>
>> ...a shop front often conveys legitimacy...
>
>Well, it works for Tesco!
>
LOL!
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