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Glass Knuckles posted:Stealing this from the first page of the wedding photography thread because it deserves a bump. BEST PROFESSIONAL LENS BEST QUALITY BEST PORTRAITS BIGGEST MEGAPIXELS RAW!  4. Everything back up: photographers, videographers, equipment, cameras, studio backdrops for rainy day,assistant photographer, and videoman, assistant and even car . Welcome .... here is your wedding photographer - Dr David Kogan Ph.D. 
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quote:WOW SO NICE ENTRANCE!!!!!! MY DAUGHTER 2 BERTH DAY!!!!!!! It's like Charlie from Sunny in Philly wrote the blog page.
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 12:41 |
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Well he's a Ph.D, so you know he's good at photography.
[e] and not only does he shoot with "EOS 1DS THE BOSS" (MOST EXPANSIVE AND BEST) and a digital medium-format, but he will apparently bring a broadcast studio-type TV camera on a crane. Where's that giant  ?[e2] what's a "Sweet 15" party? Is it some yuppie parent deciding they need to outdo Tracy's kids, who got a sweet 16? [e3] I need to stop looking at this site but I can't. I just can't look away. His second-highest-end package (Only $10,000!) is named after himself -- "The Kogan". The highest end one, for what it's worth, is called "The Sopranos"  orange lime fucked around with this message at Jun 12, 2010 around 19:04 |
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Jesus, seeing all the price lists from these people makes me wonder if anyone is actually paying them that much, and if I should be charging more for my work.
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 19:09 |
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AtomicManiac posted:Jesus, seeing all the price lists from these people makes me wonder if anyone is actually paying them that much, and if I should be charging more for my work. Seriously. These guys would probably charge a grand to shoot a wedding with a disposable camera.
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 19:19 |
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He links to the Judge Joe Brown video too. This can't be real.
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 19:30 |
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I think it's real, and he's just what happens when a manchild grows up and makes some money. He's also pretty hateful towards his ex-wife on his abomination of a "blog". I don't think I've seen that color of background on a web page since 1998...but he has the Joe Brown video, so he updated it in the last few months
 I want to believe that he doesn't speak English well enough (I think he's Israeli) to know how to spell things like "expensive" or "birth", but I don't know how he could have gotten a Ph.D anywhere in the world without having some fluency in the language. I just don't know. Oh, and he seems to reeeeally have an unhealthy obsession with Cinderella. That website is pretty much the trump card in the "equipment doesn't make you a photographer" debate. orange lime fucked around with this message at Jun 12, 2010 around 19:41 |
| # ? Jun 12, 2010 19:39 |
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I don't think these guys have particularly terrible photos, but the name on the other hand... They are advertising for "Wedding Photography" on google adwords, with the company name of: Rainy Day Photos http://www.rainydayphotos.com It just seems like that's a thought you would not want your client to have. Maybe I'm being dramatic.
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 19:48 |
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PhotoDropShip posted:I don't think these guys have particularly terrible photos, but the name on the other hand... They are advertising for "Wedding Photography" on google adwords, with the company name of: Their stuff is certainly better than most in this thread but there are a few shots that stand out. Nice glimpse of the assistants elbow and gut.  Flash reflection and the shot needs to be straightened.  They also seem to like to put the subject in the center of every shot with lots of negative space on either side. They must be in the "straight out of camera" camp. Cropping be damned!
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 20:12 |
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Glass Knuckles posted:Stealing this from the first page of the wedding photography thread because it deserves a bump. This is just impossible to top off, so horrible I can't put words on it... I think what's most sickening is that the guy is able to find clients. I
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 21:22 |
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As much as he likes to advertise the fact that he's won awards for his photography, the details about what they were and who they were from are a little more elusive (i.e., nonexistent.)
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| # ? Jun 12, 2010 23:35 |
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orange lime posted:[e3] I need to stop looking at this site but I can't. I just can't look away. His second-highest-end package (Only $10,000!) is named after himself -- "The Kogan". The highest end one, for what it's worth, is called "The Sopranos" 
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 01:26 |
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orange lime posted:Well he's a Ph.D, so you know he's good at photography. I'm pretty sure that site is a troll. Also, Quinceañera
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Pompous Rhombus posted:I'm pretty sure that site is a troll. If it is, it's a pretty drat elaborate one.
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William T. Hornaday posted:If it is, it's a pretty drat elaborate one. He's been examining the photos? There's a website of a photographer/studio not far from me which states something like "We only trust the Canon 1d Mark IV for making our photos". To me that's almost as awful as the site featured above. Who cares what's used? (Canon users, please excuse my ignorance if I've just invented a model name.)
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William T. Hornaday posted:If it is, it's a pretty drat elaborate one.
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 10:56 |
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Why does he have a stethoscope if he is a Phd not an MD? Also that is a cheap rear end 'scope. Who spends tens of thousands of dollars on cameras and then buys a 20 dollar 'scope?
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 12:04 |
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Is that a gold-plated Belkin stethoscope, for 10x faster heartbeat sound transfers?
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 15:25 |
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FasterThanLight posted:Is that a gold-plated Belkin stethoscope, for 10x faster heartbeat sound transfers? as with photography, having a more expensive stethoscope makes you a better doctor.
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red19fire posted:as with photography, having a more expensive stethoscope makes you a better doctor. today we'll be performing your colonoscopy with an instrument I like to call "THE BOSS."
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 18:03 |
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This guy reminds me of Dr. Zoidberg in the worst way.
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 18:28 |
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bung posted:
Good thing he has someone else to stand there and ignore that high contrast lighting situation.
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 19:21 |
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red19fire posted:as with photography, having a more expensive stethoscope makes you a better doctor. Yeah but that is a cheap lovely scope not one of the more expensive ones.
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 20:16 |
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Glass Knuckles posted:Stealing this from the first page of the wedding photography thread because it deserves a bump. This site makes me die a little on the inside but for some reason I feel happy about it... [Fake edit] I wonder if he has the rights to Cinderella...
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 21:15 |
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Oh dear... under his "Lessons" page....quote:
I don't think he's pretentious at all. 
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| # ? Jun 13, 2010 21:22 |
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^^^ Okay, now it's starting to feel like a troll. I just can't figure out why.
William T. Hornaday posted:If it is, it's a pretty drat elaborate one. I don't really understand how you can be a photographer (which is inherently a type of ARTIST) and have zero sense of aesthetics in other fields. Look at his tie compared to the color of his belt, his shirt, and his pants. Not only is the tie hideous on its own, but it doesn't go with any of them at all in any way. And a gold stethoscope? Really? The answer, of course, is that he has zero sense of aesthetics in photography as well, and assumes that the more megapickles he gets the prettier the photo is. THE BOSS (Also, do you think he's going in and photoshopping his teeth white, or do you think he's just had those artificial veneer things put on them? His teeth are somehow brighter and whiter than white objects in the scene) orange lime fucked around with this message at Jun 13, 2010 around 21:27 |
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AtomicManiac posted:This guy reminds me of Dr. Zoidberg in the worst way. Avoid the Zoid, he ruins pictures.
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If i were to start a business, I'd have a nice, sane site, then a crazy-assed site like that for the lunatics that are out there. I'd get both sides of the market.
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orange lime posted:Well he's a Ph.D, so you know he's good at photography. tbqh, i like to pretend my (astro)physics background helps my understanding of optics & photography. otoh, I do actually figure out requirements for cameras for use in imaging solar system bodies from interplanetary spacecraft. sooo???
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guidoanselmi posted:tbqh, i like to pretend my (astro)physics background helps my understanding of optics & photography. So... You could shoot a wedding from space. Market the poo poo out of that.
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8th-samurai posted:So... You could shoot a wedding from space. Market the poo poo out of that. 
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| # ? Jun 14, 2010 11:23 |
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William T. Hornaday posted:
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Ringo R posted:Wow, that's some great epee fighting stance there Doc. I like your oversized Visconti grip you rank loving amateur. Yeah, like it wasn't glaringly obvious before, but this guy is all money, no skill. Umm.. oh yeah, I fenced epee and saber for 12 years.
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| # ? Jun 14, 2010 16:06 |
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doc posted:Why Hire a Professional Wedding Photographer Videographer from Cinderella Studio? So is he admitting that, if any of his competitors had the same equipment, he'd be screwed? This guy is Ken Rockwell meets JeffK.
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| # ? Jun 14, 2010 16:51 |
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FasterThanLight posted:So is he admitting that, if any of his competitors had the same equipment, he'd be screwed? This guy is Ken Rockwell meets JeffK. Nothing beats the boss - it will never happened.
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Whitezombi posted:Nothing beats the boss - it will never happened. Of course it won't never not happened, because no other photographer on the planet could possibly have CANNON 1D MARK III ULTRA PRO THE BOSS HOG PHD BOOM MIC 1,000 MEGAPIXELS MOST EXPANSIVE MULTI INTERNATIONAL MAJOR AWARD WINNING WORLD RENOWNED EXCEPTIONAL CANNON 1D MARK III. If this site is a troll, my hat goes way far off to the trollmaster. Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsuq23ZuPo Glass Knuckles fucked around with this message at Jun 14, 2010 around 18:07 |
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I really want this to be real. I street-viewed the address he listed on the site, the "big yellow house" does exist, but it's residential. Running his 9,000 sq foot studio out of a house? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&s...2,170.07,,0,1.7 Perhaps it could be 3 floors... I kind of want to call this guy's number acting like I want to purchase a "the kogan" package.
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A photographer approached my girlfriend on the internet and asked her to model, he wanted to take pictures of her at her house. She agreed and was going to shoot with him tomorrow morning. I advised, as he had provided no samples of his work, and he had mentioned nudity, that it might be prudent to look him up... We found him, pay particular attention to his artsy titles. NSFW "Kitchen Scene" http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10436625 NSFW "Study in Red" http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10320991 NSFW http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=945560 The shoot is not going ahead.
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