I don’t mind people saying (thinking) they are a superior photographer to me because they most probably are :) but it’s the comments of those they I appreciate.  

That’s why we love photography, some love our work, some don’t :) and I’m sure people could look at the photographers work on her and say likewise but that’s what makes it so interesting !

So again, thank you :) I really do appreciate everyones comments and I hope I can push forward with trying new things and conquering them !!

Adam

I don’t really know what to tell you, Kyle, perhaps we have very different ideas of what is considered a lot of effort? I just completed a campaign for an interior company that began with lorries delivering about £50k of furnishings and interior products to an abandoned house, which was then furnished by dressers and set designers and a carpenter. I then spent the next 10 hours photographing five scenes, using up to 10 light sources at a time. I then took the shots home and spent another 50+ hours retouching all of the images into the final product. You can see the shots on my Behance profile. 

All told, with meetings, discussions, shooting, retouching, the whole job probably took close to 80 hours to complete. 

That’s not me boasting, anyone else who shoots things like this will know that’s a pretty average job. But I do hope that goes some way to explain why I might not see this quite the same way you do when you say that it took a lot of effort.

I look at these pictures and see nothing more than “This is what happened when I put this person here and fired a light from this direction”.

There’s nothing wrong with the images themselves, but I’m questioning their presence on a blog that is supposed to be about learning the tricks behind higher-end styles of photography. This is the kind of work you’d complete in the first 6 months of experimenting with off-camera flash. 

Hopefully this comment won’t get deleted.