I know a woman, who never had photography experience before, but she got a job in Portrait Innovations.?

Hi, I know a woman, no experience at all on photography, recently got a photographer job in Portrait Innovations. I wonder if they can maintain the quality of studio portrait. I know this company pretty big and growing, but I won't take picture there once I know the story. anyone got same feeling, where to find professional portrait photographers.

These box studios dont need someone with lots of photography experience, as they use digital camera's and computerized settings, to get the photos they need.

Their photographers need to be able to sell higher priced sets, and follow a pose chart provided by the company.

Maybe she lied about her experience, or over exaggerated to get the job.
Even though she doesn't have any experience, she can learn and grow by working there taking better and better pictures.

Most big portrait studios hire "entry-level" photographers so they can pay them crappy wages and get away with making customers happy by having an easy-to-follow system a monkey could understand.
I'm a professional photographer, and one day I found myself out of the job and desparate so I applied for a job like this. I soon realized I'm busting my *** for nothing and no reward. I'll never work for a so-called "professional portrait" studio again.
If you want to find a professional portrait photographer, don't go to a large corporation or a company with a lot of employees. Find a small business with one or two photographers on hand. That's where the creativity is.

Portrait Innovations is probably a lot like Lifetouch. The photography is generic, systematic and like I said a monkey could do it.

Generic portrait studios just need someone with good personality, they don't want someone creative to explore possibilities when they just need to work quickly to churn out the next dollar.

Studios like these use trained monkeys with fixed lighting. They prefer a good sales person. Portrait photographers who understand classic lighting and posing will not be found working there.

As far as Curtis' remark, that shows how little he actually knows about the subject.

Well usually portraits require absolutely no photo skill besides being friendly. That part IS required.

Do the police have portrait mugshot specialist with photo training?

Stand at X and say smile. How hard can that be?

Easier than assembling a Big-Mac for sure.

I know from experience.
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