Rant

Getting into wedding photography, I have been doing a lot of research and recently came upon this trend... wedding photogs complaining because other people "stole their poses and ideas."

Seriously?

You do know that there's nothing truly original left, right? Even if you had never seen the shot before taking it, you're probably still copying someone else.

Anyways, that's what art is about... drawing from other ideas and manipulating them and giving them your own spin.

If someone's doing the same thing you're doing, do it better. If you can't do it better, then you deserve to lose the contract or customer. It's an eat or be eaten business. Just because you have an cool idea doesn't mean you automatically deserve the praise or business, it's about execution. If you can't execute it well enough, and someone sees that, they're going to do it better if they can.

That's business for you. You know what they say... if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.