23 August 2011, 19:54 | Elja Trum | 5093x read

Daily dose of painfully bad photography

Anybody who purchased a camera can call himself a photographer, and a lot of these types actually start their own 'professional photography business'. Unfortunately for them, it still takes skills to be a good photographer. Now there is a blog dedicated to outing these bad photographers.

On the blog You Are Not A Photographer you can find an example every day on how it's not to be done. The site doesn't show the names of the photographers, but they do show a sample of their work. Often it is not specifically a bad photo, it can be bad post processing or simply bad taste too.

All photos shown are taken by photographers who call themselves professional and are selling their work through their companies. Perhaps the most disturbing is that there are actually people buying from them..

More bad photography can be found at Awkward Family Photos and Model Mayhem Mishaps. So next time you are thinking everybody is making better pictures than you, go to these sites for a reality check.

You are not a photographer


Elja Trum   About the author; Elja Trum
Elja Trum is founder of Photofacts and author of a Dutch book on black-and-white photography. In his daily life he is an e-business consultant with Directshop.
Elja uses Twitter, is married and father of Mika.
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Richard
Richard | wednesday 24 August 2011, 22:42
Nice! I've seen the Awkard Family Photos blog (some are actually pretty good photos) but I didn't know the other two.
Parthiban.T
ProfileTwitterParthiban.T | tuesday 30 August 2011, 16:09
Dear Elja,
I too have a bunch of Bad photographs taken by me, I keep it for review and learn from that, some time I use effects to make it a fine art look..
.......Photo-recycle.
I loved and learnt few things from the links you shared... thx.
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