How could this even be possible?
Is this done in India?
Then I took a closer look…
Apparently they’ve developed a very low price point for photography by narrowly defining what “retouching” is. In other words, they’re blocking the facial features, gaussian blurring the smooth areas of the face (and perhaps spotting out any large flaws). I doubt that you can request that they remove power lines, or fix fly-away hairs. So I’m relieved…
For now…
Still, doesn’t $3.50 seem a bit low to you? I think I could make more money working at the Subway, right? I personally might ask for a little bit more, even though most of the aforementioned labor could easily be set up as an action script. Maybe I should send them a snapshot and then do a blind side-by-side comparison of my work and theirs. I mean, how bad can it be for $3.50? The only problem is that they request three business days to turn it around. I think that it took about three-quarters of one second for my machine to apply Gaussian Blur to a 6-foot by 12-foot flat tif file at 300 dots per inch. That’s a pretty long time, but it’s not three business days. The more I think about this, the more it makes me want to have a lower price point myself. I can run the old “Trap & Blur” a lot faster, and my masks won’t have hard edges.
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