I used to get this all the bloody time
Being a journalist, many 'professional' photographers would send in images suggesting they were 'perfect for publication'.

The worst were amateurs attending race events. How about you get more than two thirds of the bike or car in the image then, just maybe, we'll talk, eh?

Even worse were people getting in touch to ask us to back them to get accreditation for a race event. "They won't approve me unless a magazine or paper will confirm I'm going for them. I'm afraid I don't have any photos to send you yet, but I have got a XXXXXX (insert latest SLR fad camera here) which Practical Photography says is the best."

Gah!
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 11:20, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

this dude's a joker
apparently he put down three quarters of a bottle of whiskey while shooting
might have somethign to do with the blurriness.
the joke is, they paid him a shitload. i sat at my desk trying to remotely art direct the thing.. now recently they sent me to the relentless NASS festival, armed with a fuckin £400 nikon slr and a basic lens, and i got them over 150 good usable relevant in focus correctly exposed images.. they could have sent me out and not paid me a damn thing extra, and we'd have shitloads of shots.
fail.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 11:27, Reply)

Familiar story
I'm a writer, I'm shit with cameras, I don't even own an SLR ferchrissakes, and I've gone out and done, for free, better jobs than some paid piss-artists...
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 11:28, Reply)